Having read the text of the Law and the materials for drafting the same, the President of Latvia stated that the shortcomings present in the Law were so essential that they should be eliminated before promulgation of that Law.
While returning the amendments to the Immigration Law for reconsideration, the President of Latvia pointed to at least seven provisions of the Law that should be improved in order to ensure accurate application of the Law. For example, the Law did not set the base state budget program, whereto payments of 5,000 EUR of the foreigners should be made for applying for repeated temporary residence permit, and the right of the Cabinet of Ministers to suspend the issue of repeated temporary residence permits in the interests of public safety or economic development of the country was not set forth.
The President of Latvia did not challenge the parliamentary right to impose additional requirements for applications for repeated temporary residence permits, but he indicated to the necessity to ensure a clear and precise transition to the statutory regulation.
“The proposal supported in the third reading on new requirements for applying for repeated temporary residence permit caused a series of contradictions in the text of the adopted amendments to the Immigration Law. In order to ensure successful application of the Law, those contradictions must be eliminated,” concluded the President of Latvia.