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• Parents who do not want to Latvianise name of their child are not able to register the child as Latvian citizen and to receive birth certificate

Vesti Segodnya reports about a case when parents – Latvian mother and Portuguese father living in Latvia – are not able to register their child as Latvian citizen and to receive birth certificate because they do not want to Latvianise name of the child. The Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs argues that the name in documents should be spelled in accordance with Latvian grammar, while, parents consider that Latvianisation of the name distorts the name they choosefor the child.