On Tuesday, June 22, the Cabinet of Ministers (CM) issued regulations "Procedure for Inclusion and Updating of Information in the Register of Natural Persons". The Register of Natural Persons will combine the functionality of the current Population Register and the Civil Status Registration Information System.
These Regulations prescribe in detail the procedures by which State administrative authorities, local governments, courts, and sworn notaries will include or update information in the Register of Natural Persons, how documents will be stored and used, as well as determine the procedures by which non-citizens of Latvia will submit documents justifying their residence abroad and a document confirming that they have not been citizens of another state.
Similarly, these Regulations prescribe how the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs (OCMA) shall provide information to the Office of the Saeima Administration, State administrative authorities, courts, sworn notaries, and natural persons for the PMLP to update the information in the Register of Natural Persons.
The OCMA and local governments will include information regarding Latvian citizens and Latvian non-citizens, foreigners who have received a residence permit in Latvia, the registration certificate of a European Union citizen or the permanent residence certificate of a European Union citizen, and who have a legal relationship with Latvia, based on which mutual rights and duties have been formed, in the fields of commercial activity, health, taxation, benefits, and education.
Updating the information in the Register of Natural Persons will indicate the date of the amendment, the legal basis and the number of the document certifying the amendment, the date of issue, the issuing State, and the issuing authority. Employees who will include information regarding the person in the register will check the correspondence of the information with personal identification documents with legal effect in Latvia.
It will be possible to provide information to the register of natural persons in person or electronically.
The Law of the Register of Natural Persons provides that the information of the Register will be included and updated not only by the OCMA but also by other State administrative institutions, such as the local government, district (city) court, in providing services to a foreigner in the field of real estate, commercial activity, health, tax, benefits, asylum, and education.
The choice of persons to ban or permit their body, tissues, and organs after death must be accumulated in the Register of Natural Persons by 31 January 2022, but from 1 February 2022, the person will have to make this mark in the single electronic information system in the health sector.
Prepared by:
Communications Department of the Ministry of the Interior
E-mail: kn@iem.gov.lv