From 26 to 27 May border guards checked 13,685 persons entering Latvia (10,948 on highways, and 2,737 at Riga International Airport and the Port of Riga). Among the checked persons, 1,098 are third-country nationals. A total of 5,300 cars have also been checked.

Border guards have refused entrance to 33 nationals: 23 from Lithuania, 8 from Estonia, 1 from Russia, and 1 from Sweden. As on previous days, these persons could not produce a valid travel document, a driver’s licence, or a vehicle registration certificate.

At the temporarily re-opened Grenctale border check-point, border guards detained a Latvian citizen leaving the country. The person could not produce a valid passport. A more thorough check revealed that the person was being sought by law-enforcement institutions. The person was detained and handed over to police.

Traffic backups still are not forming on the highways crossing the internal borders.

Officers of the immigration units of the State Border Guard are conducting intensified checks of the areas adjacent to Latvia’s borders with Estonia and Lithuania; intensified border monitoring is also continuing on Latvia’s borders with Belarus and Russia.

As we have already reported, from 9:00 on 24 May to 18:00 on 1 June, temporary border control has been re-imposed on internal borders. Border guards are performing minimal security checks of all people arriving in Latvia.


Information prepared by Ms. Jevgēnija Korne,
Chief Inspector of the Coordination and Public Relations Department of the Administrative Board of the Central Board of the State Border Guard,
phone: +371 6707 5617, +371 2632 8069, e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it