Attracting international students to Latvia Metropolis Conference 2013, Tampere li C f 20 3 10.09.2013. Author: Krist ī ne B ē rzi ņ a, expert of the EMN LV NCP 1 THE OFFICE OF CITIZENSHIP AND MIGRATION AFFAIRS, LATVIAN CONTACT POINT OF THE EMN
Institutions involved � Ministry of Education and Science: • State Education Development Agency • Academic Information Centre • Academic Information Centre � Ministry of Foreign Affairs incl diplomatic and consular � Ministry of Foreign Affairs, incl. diplomatic and consular missions abroad � Ministry of Interior • Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs • State Border Guard 2 THE OFFICE OF CITIZENSHIP AND MIGRATION AFFAIRS, LATVIAN CONTACT POINT OF THE EMN
Policy and strategy � Education: � Education: • Main action – internationalisation of higher education and increase of the international competitiveness • Main aim – proportion of foreign students to 10% from total • Each institution can define its’ own policy, strategy, target countries • Different policy for state financed institutions regarding language use in study programmes � Immigration: • Based on the common EU policy (implementation of the Directive 2004/114/EC) 3 THE OFFICE OF CITIZENSHIP AND MIGRATION AFFAIRS, LATVIAN CONTACT POINT OF THE EMN
Legislation � Education Law, Law on Institutions of Higher Education • relevant regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers l l i f h C bi f Mi i � I � Immigration Law i ti L • relevant regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers 4 THE OFFICE OF CITIZENSHIP AND MIGRATION AFFAIRS, LATVIAN CONTACT POINT OF THE EMN
System of higher education Doctoral studies (3 ‐ 4 years) Master studies Academic Professional (2 years) (1 ‐ 2 years) Bachelor studies Academic Professional (3 ‐ 4 years) (3 4 years) 2nd level 2nd level (4 years) College education 1st level (2 ‐ 3 years) 5 THE OFFICE OF CITIZENSHIP AND MIGRATION AFFAIRS, LATVIAN CONTACT POINT OF THE EMN
Statistics I Total number of students, 2006 ‐ 2012 Data source: Ministry of Education and Science y 140000 129503 127050 125350 125350 120000 112555 103782 97035 97035 94474 100000 80000 2006/2007. 2007./2008. 2008./2009. 2009./2010. 2010./2011. 2011./2012. 2012./2013. 6 THE OFFICE OF CITIZENSHIP AND MIGRATION AFFAIRS, LATVIAN CONTACT POINT OF THE EMN
Statistics II Dissemination of foreign students in the institutions of higher education, academic year 2012/2013 education, academic year 2012/2013 Data source: Ministry of Education and Science Institution of higher education Total number of Number of third ‐ TOP ‐ 5 citizenships foreign students foreign students country nationals country nationals Riga Stradins University (state) 784 20 (3%) Sri Lanka, Israel, Turkey, University of Latvia (state) 540 171 (32%) Turkey, Russia, Sri Lanka, Montenegro, Pakistan Riga Technical University (state) 414 327 (79%) Uzbekistan, India, Turkey, Nigeria, Egypt Baltic International Academy (private) 377 297 (79%) Russia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus Business School “Tur ī ba” (private) 278 215 (77%) Uzbekistan, India, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Belarus Riga Aeronavigation Institute (private) 182 179 (98%) Russia(134), Kazakhstan, Georgia, Ukraine Ukraine Stockholm School of Economics in 158 42 (27%) Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Riga (private) Georgia Information Systems Management 141 137 (97%) Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Institute (private) Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan 7 THE OFFICE OF CITIZENSHIP AND MIGRATION AFFAIRS, LATVIAN CONTACT POINT OF THE EMN
Practical measures for attraction � Participation in education exhibitions � Use of services of agents of education � Use of services of agents of education � Information availability via different sources � Study fees � Study fees � Scholarships based on international agreements 8 THE OFFICE OF CITIZENSHIP AND MIGRATION AFFAIRS, LATVIAN CONTACT POINT OF THE EMN
Statistics III Number of international students, 2006 ‐ 2012 Data source: Ministry of Education and Science y 3493 3500 2717 2717 3000 3000 2500 1949 1778 1715 2000 1583 1492 1425 1303 1500 1058 1058 994 994 894 826 761 1000 500 0 2006./2007. 2007./2008. 2008./2009. 2009./2010. 2010./2011. 2011./2012. 2012./2013. Total number of foreign students Number of students from third countries 9 THE OFFICE OF CITIZENSHIP AND MIGRATION AFFAIRS, LATVIAN CONTACT POINT OF THE EMN
Immigration to Latvia � For short ‐ term (not exceeding 90 days) education – visa • facilitations provided by the Visa Code are taken into account � For long ‐ term education – temporary residence permit • granted for the entire period of studies • only for full ‐ time students, pupils of accredited institutions and for student or pupil exchange student or pupil exchange • for preparation courses (if the study programme provides for such) 10 THE OFFICE OF CITIZENSHIP AND MIGRATION AFFAIRS, LATVIAN CONTACT POINT OF THE EMN
Immigration to Latvia: procedures I � First stage: • Educational institution approves an invitation(certifies that it assumes a responsibility for the invitee) ibilit f th i it ) • Student applies for residence permit by submitting necessary documents to the respective diplomatic or consular mission outside the Schengen Zone (there are some exceptions) • The Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs examines documents and adopts a decision within 30 days (by paying higher state fee – and adopts a decision within 30 days (by paying higher state fee – within 10 or 5 working days) 11 THE OFFICE OF CITIZENSHIP AND MIGRATION AFFAIRS, LATVIAN CONTACT POINT OF THE EMN
Immigration to Latvia: procedures II � Second stage: • student applies for a national visa in order to entry to Latvia and to receive a residence permit • consular authority examines all submitted documents for a • consular authority examines all submitted documents for a visa, assesses risks of illegal immigration � May be cases for a visa when the decision on granting y g g residence permit is positive, but the issuance of visa is refused � Third stage: • student should arrive to the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs to receive the residence permit 12 THE OFFICE OF CITIZENSHIP AND MIGRATION AFFAIRS, LATVIAN CONTACT POINT OF THE EMN
Immigration to Latvia: statistics First ‐ time residence permits for education reasons, 2008 ‐ 2012 Data source: Eurostat, for 2012 – OCMA 824 900 800 700 600 600 459 500 346 400 400 296 296 300 221 212 154 200 100 0 2006 2006 2007 2007 2008 2008 2009 2009 2010 2010 2011 2011 2012 2012 13 THE OFFICE OF CITIZENSHIP AND MIGRATION AFFAIRS, LATVIAN CONTACT POINT OF THE EMN
Immigration to Latvia: rights � Right to work (20 h per week) � Family reunification (spouses, minor children): • spouses do not have a right to work; • payment of full state fee for the examination of the documents for spouses; p ; • children have rights to acquire a free education. � No rights to receive state social allowances and healthcare (health insurance policy) 14 THE OFFICE OF CITIZENSHIP AND MIGRATION AFFAIRS, LATVIAN CONTACT POINT OF THE EMN
Main challenges and possible solutions I � Lack of diplomatic and consular missions abroad p Solution: sending mission to the third country in cooperation with the other EU MS (first experience in 2012, India): • total 88 applicants, from them: l 88 li f h 13 refused; 18 do not proceed further; 18 do not proceed further; 27 withdrawn or residence permit was not renewed; 30 issued and are in force. � Cooperation agreements between institutions ‐ increase of responsibility of education institutions b l f d 15 THE OFFICE OF CITIZENSHIP AND MIGRATION AFFAIRS, LATVIAN CONTACT POINT OF THE EMN
Main challenges and possible solutions II � Residence permit and visa application is not merged into one p pp g procedure • allows immigration institutions effectively combat irregular migration � Capacity of state institutions during admission procedures • submission of all documents on time b i i f ll d i � Recognition procedure of education documents � Recognition procedure of education documents • problems to check the authenticity of submitted documents • different education systems, falsified documents y , • problematic states – Nigeria, Cameroon, India (some regions), Pakistan, Nepal 16 THE OFFICE OF CITIZENSHIP AND MIGRATION AFFAIRS, LATVIAN CONTACT POINT OF THE EMN
Thank You very much for Your attention! Author: Krist ī ne B Ē RZI Ņ A EXPERT OF THE EMN LV NCP E ‐ mail: emn@pmlp.gov.lv Web: www.emn.lv 17 THE OFFICE OF CITIZENSHIP AND MIGRATION AFFAIRS, LATVIAN CONTACT POINT OF THE EMN
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