As long as the age is reached, there is an increasing need to represent itself – going to a doctor, going abroad, completing formalities in public authorities or in a bank, etc. In order to formally demonstrate their identity, everyone needs a personal identification document.

The passport and the identity card (electronic identification card - eID card) shall be a personal identification document which can be received by any person registered in the Population Register.

From 15 years of age, a person has possession of a passport and/or identity card (electronic identification card - eID card). Up to the age of 15 years, a personal certificate may be issued on the application of the parent or legal representative.

Documents for issuing a passport or eID card may be submitted and received by any Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs in the territorial division, regardless of the declared place of life.

In order to receive a passport or an eID card, you must apply to the territorial division of the Office for Citizenship and Migration Affairs for a specific visit period. To apply for a visit, you must contact the territorial division of the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs you have selected. Contact details can be found here and here.

Read more about the types of personal identification documents, their receipt, the loss of acts on the OCMA's website.

With the eID card you can:

1. to verify their identity on the spot;
2. travel within the territory of the European Union, the countries of the European Economic Area and the Swiss Confederation;
3. to certify their identity in an electronic environment (provided that it includes and activates e-identity assurance when the eID card is received);
4. sign up electronically (if it includes e-signing when you receive your eID card). For more information  www.eparaksts.lv or in the description of life situations Electronic signature and electronic identity.
   
   

Secure electronic signature (e-signature) is available to any person registered in the Population Register of the Republic of Latvia from the age of 14.

Lost or stolen document

Discovering that a passport or an eID card has been missed or stolen must be reported to the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs (OCMA), National police or State Border Guard. If the document is missing, you should report it when you are abroad at the diplomatic or consular mission of Latvia if there is one in the foreign country concerned.

Within thirty days, the OCMA must provide the necessary documents for the renewal of the identity document. In the case of both personal identity documents, the OCMA must present the document in its possession in order to certify its identity and request the renewal of the second document. On the other hand, if the only document is missed, management officers will verify the identity of the person and start producing a new document.

If a personal identification document has been stolen, it must be reported to the State Police and, when travelling to the OCMA, a document must be carried with which the police have confirmed the theft of the document. In such a case, no administrative penalty will have to be paid for the possession of negligent identity documents.

If your birth certificate is missing, choose the most convenient way to get it again:

• using e-service Request for a duplicated birth certificate or a certificate from the Birth Register;

• inscriptions application, secure signatures  electronic signature and send to the Ministry of Justice  e-address or to pasts@tm.gov.lv;
• on-site in any local government family list department;
• in the nearest diplomatic and consular mission of the Republic of Latvia in a foreign state.

The process of acquiring the rights of a car or any other motor vehicle most frequently starts with a training permit, known as “white rights”. A driving training permit is mandatory for obtaining a driving licence, but not for starting training in an auto school. They will be needed to start driving lessons in the auto school. Driving training permit issues the Road Traffic Safety Directorate (RTSD) and can be received from the age of 16.

To obtain a driving training permit, you must exit first-time health check attesting the conformity of the state of health of the person with the driving of the vehicle. The health check may be carried out:

1. a family doctor or
2. a commission of doctors has been set up in a medical treatment institution.

Roadside training may only take place when the person being trained has sufficiently acquired driving skills, complies with the Road Traffic Regulations and only in the presence of a training officer:

1. a driving instruction instructor or
2. the driver of the vehicle (of which the driver has at least 3 years of service).
   
   

   Vehicle category	Driving training authorisation	driving licence driving licence
   Am	No 12 years	From 14 years
   A1, B1	No 14 years	From 16 years
   A2, B, C1	No 16 years	from 18 years
   C, D1,	No 19 years	No 21
   A, D	From 22 Years	No 24

More information on driving licences available on the website of the RTSD.

In order to obtain a driving licence, a theoretical examination and a driving test must be performed in an autoschool. During training, the autoschool shall present the procedures for the examination, as well as the rights and duties of the applicant, when arranging them. The scope and content of the training in the automotive school shall include both theoretical training on road traffic rules and road safety issues and driving training.

The RTSD website can train in performance test theory exam and apply for theoretical and management using the portal for examination e.csdd.lv.

A cycling licence may be obtained from the age of 10 by passing a road traffic regulation and a road safety examination (test). If one of the categories of the driver has already been obtained, a bicycle may also be operated.

The test may be carried out in one of the sections of the RTSD or at the Biocrawler Complex Sport Base. The examination must be accompanied by a personal identification document. The cyclist's license and the first-time passage of the exam are free.

Various training materials are available to prepare for the exam:

1. Test on the website of the RTSD in the performance of which you can check your knowledge and readiness for the examination (“New Exam”, “Cycles”);
2. on the website www.berniem.csdd.lv;
3. book "On the road with a bicycle“, “Star ABC”;
4. Road traffic rules.

For more detailed information, see on the website of the RTSD and the RTSD Cyclist's manual

An individual examination may be carried out:

1. in one of the RTSD departments;
2. Riga Motormuseum (When you log on to your phone in advance 6702588).

In obtaining secondary education, the application for studies in a higher education is becoming very topical:

• using an e-service Electronic application to study in undergraduate programmes it is possible to apply for one of the twelve Latvian universities:

1. Banking high school,
2. At Business, Arts and Technology High School, “RISEBA,”
3. Daugavpils University,
4. In economic and cultural higher education,
5. Information system management higher education,
6. At the Agricultural University of Latvia,
7. At the University of Latvia,
8. At the University of Liepaja,
9. Rezekne Technology Academy,
10. Riga Technical University,
11. At Ventspils High School,
12. Vidzeme High School.

Riga Stradiņa University can apply for studies electronically IN RSU e-Reception System.

Library

It is worth paying attention to the resources of libraries that are electronically available to every citizen who wants to expand their knowledge on a wide variety of topics.

If you have registered as a user in a public-interest library, you can search for and order books, periodicals, etc. remotely:

1. Electronic libraries of national importance in the co-catalog;
2. In Virtual Heights and Special Libraries in the co-catalog;
3. The National Library of Latvia catalogues and databases.
   
   

The full range of library services available to you can be consulted on the NLL's website or for yourself in the nearby library.

If you have to change your place of residence, for example, when you start a study or a new job, you must declare the new address of your place of residence within a month. Cancellation of the previous residence declaration is not necessary because the previous address is automatically replaced by the new messages.

Declare the place of residence of your child, the child of your minor, the person under guardianship or guardianship, by choosing the most convenient way:

• open e-service Declaration or designation of residence, complete it and submit it;

• on-site at the OCMA (for foreigners only);
• on-site in the declaring authority of residence of the local government in the administrative territory of which the address of the place of residence to be declared is situated.

Only adults may declare the place of residence. Local governments tend to offer different support programmes, activities and citizens' involvement opportunities to the declared residents of the relevant local government. If you are declared, see own municipalities supply to the population.

On site vietagimenei.lv comparisons can be made between aid and opportunities offered by different municipalities.

Reaching the age of age, Medicare fees can change and new opportunities to use different e-services appear.

Electronically, the eHealth and Latvija.lv portal will only make available the data transmitted or entered by the healthcare institution into the single electronic information system in the health sector!

Basic health data

Every citizen can get acquainted with their basic health data (diagnoses, allergies, etc.) and other information eveseliba.gov.lv and using the available services on the Latvija.lv portal:

1. Shipments received;

1. My e-recipes;

1. Exams performed by the patient;

1. Patient diagnosis;

1. My visual diagnostic data;

1. Results of medical services received by the patient;

1. Sick leaves received;

1. My data SMCAHCWA.

If you use eHealth portal, you will be able to view information about:

1. Personal data;
2. Records;
3. Referrals and results;
4. Patient card;
5. Recipes;
6. Incapacity leaves;
7. Vaccination data;
8. Family doctor and EHIC;
9. E-Consultation.

If you want to find out what views your health data, use the Latvija.lv e-service portal Who's watched my medical data.

But in e-service Patient reminders you will be able to apply for information about your planned, necessary or ongoing health activities and choose a notification channel.

Patient contribution

One of the payments that visitors to medical treatments are most likely to face is the patient's contributions. The majority of the service costs are covered by State budget funds, but some should be paid by the patient itself, which is the patient's contribution.

Children under the age of 18 are exempt from making patient contributions when they receive state-paid health services. In reaching the age of age, state-paid medical services continue to be received under the conditions applicable to adults.

The amount of patient contribution depends on the service provided – you can get acquainted with the full list of patient contributions and the amount of them on the National Health Service's website.

Dentistry

For residents up to 18 years, the state pays dental services if the dentist has a contract with the National Health Service. Prior to reaching the age of age, the State also pays for first-time advice on orthodontist (up to 22 years in cases of congenital face-jaw ticks).

Dental hygiene is also paid once a year for children – aged 2 to 18. Twice a year, dental hygiene services can be received by children aged 7, 11 and 12. After reaching age, dental and dental hygiene services are available for a fee.

Information regarding medical treatment institutions providing State-paid dental health services shall be available on the National Health Service's website.

Vaccination

Vaccination is an effective means of preventing infectious diseases. Vaccination protects against infections, prevents severe disease passage and complications in the event of an infectious disease. Vaccination helps protect the lives of more than 2.5 million children worldwide every year.

You can learn more about state-paid vaccination and accessibility for different age groups on the Centre for Disease Prevention and Control's website.

Marriage is allowed in Latvia from the age of eighteen. In exceptional cases, a marriage may take effect from the age of sixteen (with the consent of parents or guardians or a written permit of the relevant Orphan's Court), but only if the marriage is entered into with an adult person.

Application

Persons wishing to enter into a marriage shall submit a joint application signed by both of them in a specific sample to the family list section.

A submission regarding the entering into of a marriage may be submitted to the family list section:

1. electronically, at a more convenient and convenient time, , for example, using e-address . The application must be signed with a secure  electronic signature;
2. on personal visit to the local government's family list department (or Diplomatic and consular missions of the Republic of Latvia abroad).

If a person wishing to enter into a marriage is a minor, the submission shall be accompanied by the parents or guardians of the minor, or a written authorisation of the relevant Orphan's Court.

Entering into marriage

The spouses shall be permitted to be performed by an official of the family list department or a clergyman, if the provisions for entering into a marriage have been observed, and shall be concluded within one to six months after the submission of the application. Persons who have previously been married in another marriage and have not been included in the Population Register, together with the application, must present one of the following documents:

1. the death certificate of the former spouse;
2. divorce certificate;
3. a judgment of the court by which the marriage was divorced or invalidated;
4. an extract or a statement from the divorce register or the marriage register with details of the divorce.

The marriage shall be registered on a date specified in the correspondence section in the presence of a couple wishing to enter into a marriage and two adult witnesses. An official of the family list department may register a marriage in another location if the couple provides suitable or appropriate conditions.

If the married people belong to the denominations of ev. - Lutheran, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, grandfathers, Methodist, Baptist, seventh-day adventurers or Moses believers (judaists), and want to be married to a clergyman of his own denomination, they shall be married under the terms of the respective denomination.

A marriage certificate shall be issued after the marriage is concluded.

If the marriage certificate has disappeared, it is possible to obtain it again. For a re-marriage certificate, choose the most convenient way:

• using e-service A marriage certificate or certificates from the marriage register request;

• inscriptions application, secure signatures  electronic signature and send to the Ministry of Justice  e-address or to pasts@tm.gov.lv;
• on-site in any local government family list department;
• in the nearest diplomatic and consular mission of the Republic of Latvia in a foreign state.

Change of surname by marriage

If the last name is changed at the end of the marriage, the identity documents (passport and/or identity card - eID card) shall become invalid for use. Within 30 days of changing the surname, please refer to the nearest territorial division of the OCMA to apply for and receive a new identification document.

In order to receive a passport or an eID card, you must apply to the territorial division of the Office for Citizenship and Migration Affairs for a specific visit period. To apply for a visit, you must contact the territorial division of the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs you have selected. Contact details can be found here and here

Today, the vast majority of young people aged 18 are still learning and one of the most important choices in life – to become a profession – is still ahead. Parental support, including financial, is very important at this point.

Reaching legal age in itself is not a reason for stopping paying alimony-the regulatory enactments do not specify the exact age of the child at the onset of which the parental obligation to provide maintenance ceases. It is the responsibility of both parents to keep the child up to the time when the child can supply himself or herself.

Although a specific limit or criteria for the length of maintenance to be paid after the age of age are not specified in the regulatory enactments, it is assumed that if a child continues to be educated, maintenance must be paid not longer than until the age of 24.

Maintenance resources from the Support Guarantee Fund may also be received after reaching the age of the child if the child continues to acquire basic education, secondary education, vocational education or special education in the Republic of Latvia, but not longer than until the age of 21.

Maintenance costs from the Maintenance Guarantee Fund will not be performed for children who continue to obtain higher education after reaching the age.

More information on receipt of maintenance is available on the website of the Administration of the Maintenance Guarantee Fund (AMGF).

If the parent or guardian of a young person wishes to apply for maintenance, the most convenient means must be selected:

• using an e-service Apply to receive maintenance payments;

• by writing application by signing with a secure  electronic signature and sending to AMGF  e-address or to pasts@ugf.gov.lv;
• on-site at the AMGF.

State family allowance

1. For a child who has reached the age of 15, the parent shall continue to pay the national family allowance until he or she reaches the age of 20 years of the child, if he or she is in a general education or vocational education institution and has not entered into a marriage.
2. The State family allowance shall be granted and paid to the child himself or herself after 18 years of age, if he or she had previously been in a custody or foster family.

After reaching legal age, if a child learns in an institution of general education or vocational education and is not older than 20 years or studies in a full-time high school and is not older than 24 years, the State Social Insurance Agency shall continue to pay:

• State Social Security Benefits;
• Compensation for survivors;
• State aid for celiacy sick children.
  
  

Social guarantees for an orphan remain up to the age of 24. An orphan who has reached legal age is entitled to assistance in solving the housing issue, covering rent costs until the settlement of the housing issue, money for the commencement of an independent life, benefit for the purchase of soft stocks and household items, monthly allowance, and eachmunicipalityadditional assistance may be identified.

Although the path to legal age is full of new rights and freedoms, there must be serious responsibility for themselves and for their actions. Both the administrative and criminal liability of the person occur at the age of 14.

Administrative responsibility

Unthinking, ignorance or failure to act can result in an administrative punishment for anyone. Administrative penalties are most often imposed for road traffic offences, smoking in unauthorised places, presence in alcoholic beverages, or other intoxicating substances, etc.

If you want to check information about you (or your minors, guardians or guardians), the administrative penalties applied, and pay them:

• use e-service Check and payment of administrative penalties.

Criminal liability

Criminal liability is the responsibility for an activity qualified in law as a criminal offence – it is classified crimes and criminal offences.

Criminal records are the consequences of a criminal offence which, according to the degree of gravity, is deemed to have been extinguished after a specified period of time but will be retained in the Penalties Register.

It is possible to request, electronically, a statement regarding criminal penalties and administrative penalties imposed on a private individual:

• using a charge e-service A statement from the Criminal Register regarding the criminal record of a natural person (not).

It is possible to include additional statements from the Archives of the Penalties Register (read more in the description of the life situation Payment and contestation of penalties section Declaration of impunity). If necessary, when requesting a statement, you may indicate the reason for the need for a statement and the authority to which it will be submitted.

Regardless of the deletion or removal of criminal records, planting in the judiciary system, security guard, serving in military service, qualifying for official, Saeima deputy, etc., will not be possible. Criminally sanctioned persons also have limited scope for working with children, receiving a weapon, participating in competitions, etc., and may be an obstacle to entry and work in countries with which Latvia does not have visa-free regime. For more detailed information, it is desirable to contact the country concerned embassy or mission.

The State Social Insurance Agency (SSIA)

The Road Traffic Safety Directorate (RTSD)

The State Radio and Television Centre of Latvia (SRTCL)

The State Police (SP)

The National Health Service (NHS)

The Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (CDPC)

The Ministry of Health (HM)

The Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs (OCMA)

The Administration of the Maintenance Guarantee Fund (AMGF)

Passports and eID cards

Change of personal data

Debt collection or servicing

Studies in Latvia and abroad

Travel

Work, Taxes and Salary Tax Book

Declaration of residence