🇱🇻Latvia immigration routes

Every route we track for Latvia, with the official source behind each one.

8

routes tracked

1

need no employer sponsor

1

map to permanent residence

Routes

• EU Blue Card

  Latvia's EU Blue Card, transposing the recast Directive (EU) 2021/1883, is a highly-qualified-employment residence permit requiring a valid work contract or binding job offer of at least 1 year, proof the applicant meets national or professional-qualification requirements as applicable, a valid travel document/visa/…

  • Employer sponsor required
  • Leads to permanent residence

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• Long-stay visa for remote work (Latvia)

  Latvia's remote-work route is a long-stay (category D) visa rather than a residence permit, and it is deliberately narrow.

  • Sponsorship not yet read

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• Residence permit for family reunification (Latvia)

  If you are lawfully resident in Latvia you can bring a defined circle of close family: your spouse, your and your spouse's minor children, and persons in your or your spouse's care.

  • Sponsorship not yet read

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• Residence permit for the purpose of study (Latvia)

  To study in Latvia as a non-EU citizen you must first be registered at a university or another higher education institution, and then obtain a residence permit for the purpose of study — plus a visa if your nationality needs one.

  • Sponsorship not yet read

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• Share capital investor residence permit

  Latvia's share-capital investor residence permit, issued by the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs (PMLP), grants a temporary residence permit to a foreigner who invests in a company's share capital — increasing it or founding a new company — and pays €10,000 into the State budget.

  • Sponsorship not yet read

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• Startup Visa (Innovative Product Creation/Development Residence Permit)

  Latvia's Startup Visa, run by Startup Latvia (the state agency LIAA's startup programme), is technically a temporary residence permit for non-EU startup founders who want to launch their idea in Latvia.

  • No employer sponsor needed

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• Status of the long-term resident of the European Union in the Republic of Latvia

  This is Latvia's settlement status for third-country nationals, introduced by the law "On the Status of Permanent Residents of the European Union in the Republic of Latvia" of 22 June 2006, which transposed Directive 2003/109/EC.

  • Sponsorship not yet read

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• Temporary residence permit for employment (Latvia)

  If you are a non-EU citizen with a Latvian job offer and you intend to stay longer than 90 days in any half-year, you need a temporary residence permit tied to that job.

  • Sponsorship not yet read

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