Integration monitor is a daily Latvian press digest on ethnic minority and society integration issues. The Monitor reviews the biggest Latvian dailies: Diena, Latvijas Avize, Neatkariga (in Latvian language), Vesti Segodnya (in Russian language). In specific cases other information sources are used. Latvian Centre for Human Rights is not responsible for information published by the media.

• Vesti Segodnya: 67-year-old woman, descendant of Latvian citizens cannot receive permanent residence permit in Latvia
• Latvijas Avize interviews two Russian entrepreneurs who moved for residence to Latvia

 Vesti Segodnya reports about a case of a 67-year-old woman, descendant of Latvian citizens, who returned to Latvia for residence from Ukraine, but cannot receive permanent residence permit. According to her story, her parents were old-believers and citizens of Latvia but she moved to Ukraine during Soviet era. In 2008, she returned to Latvia where her daughter (also a citizen of Latvia) resides and received temporary residence permit. After five years she applied for permanent residence permit, however, the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs (OCMA) refused to grant the permit arguing that the woman is not able to pass the state language test and ordered her to leave the country. Despite the fact, that the woman provided three medical references which certify that her state of health does not allow her to take the full language test, the OCMA officials did not change the decision. But on 13 June, the OCMA suspended its decision in order to collect more information about the case.

Latvijas Avize interviews two Russian entrepreneurs who moved for residence to Latvia. The entrepreneurs received the residence permits in Latvia because they bought an expensive housing and established some businesses in Riga. The entrepreneurs explain the reasons why they choose Latvia by the fact the it is a member of the European Union, it is possible to communicate in Russian here, the distance between Riga and Moscow is relatively small, and also because both of them like the way of living in this country. According to the data of the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs, 6,249 foreigners received temporary residence permits in Latvia from 2010 up to this day.