Step Right Up, Folks!

Mar 10, 2010
By Karlis Streips

Last week Latvia’s parliament, the Saeima, amended the country’s immigration law with the stated aim of bringing greater investments into Latvia. The new rules say that if you can invest 25,000 lats (around 35,000 euros) in a Latvian company, create five new jobs, and pay at least 10,000 lats a year in taxes, then you can get a temporary residence permit for up to five years. No business skills? There’s the alternative of shelling out 100,000 lats in Riga and its metropoli ...

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