On Friday, the 6th of October, the State Border Guard’s officials prevented 87 people persons from the illegal crossing of the Latvian – Belarusian state border, in total 10727 persons have been prevented from the illegal border crossing during this year.
In total 337 persons have been admitted for humanitarian reasons this year.
39 offenders were detected at the external borders and within the country
20 border checks violators were detected at external borders including:
- Entry into the Republic of Latvia was refused to 6 foreigners
At the Vientuļi, Grebņeva, Terehova and the ‘‘Riga’’ Airport Border Crossing Points, entry into the Republic of Latvia was refused to one citizen of Ukraine and one citizen of Russia, as the foreigners were not in possession of valid travel document, two citizens of Uzbekistan and one citizen of Azerbaijan, because the foreigners were not able to justify the purpose of their entry and stay in the country. One citizen of Russia was refused from the entry into the Republic of Latvia due to the security reasons. The persons were returned to the country of departure.
- conditions of stay were violated by 5 foreigners
At the Terehova and the ‘‘Riga’’ Airport Border Crossing Points two citizens of Ukraine, two –Uzbekistan and one –Tadzhikistan were detected for violating the conditions of stay in the territory of the Schengen Area Countries (exceeded the duration of stay specified in the visa or visa-free regime, were not in possession of valid visa or residence permit). Administrative liability was not initiated to the one citizen of Uzbekistan, however, the rest persons were subjected to the administrative liability.
While carrying out immigration control measures within the country, violations of entry or stay conditions were detected for 3 persons – two citizens of Estonia and one citizen of Nigeria.
In the field of the violations of exploitation of the vehicles and vessels 14 people were subjected to administrative liability or were refused the right to enter the Republic of Latvia by officials of the State Border Guard of Latvia – 4 citizens of Moldova, 3 –of Belarus, 2 –of Latvia, 1 –of Russia, 1 –of Estonia, 1 –of Lithuania, 1 –of Ukraine and 1 –of Uzbekistan.