{"id":120,"date":"2022-12-06T09:54:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T09:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/latvia\/?page_id=120"},"modified":"2025-04-07T11:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T11:35:07","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/latvia\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welcome to the \u2018HELP\u2019 website run by <strong>UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency<\/strong>. Here, <strong>refugees, asylum-seekers and stateless<\/strong> persons, as well as their family members and people who assist them, can obtain information about the asylum procedure and available services in Latvia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#cce3f2\">On this website, you will find:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#abb7c230\"><strong>\u27a1\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/latvia\/information-for-people-fleeing-ukraine\/\">Information for people fleeing Ukraine seeking protection in Latvia<\/a><font><br><font>\u27a1\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/latvia\/warnings-about-risks-of-human-trafficking\/\">Warning about risks of human trafficking<\/a><font><br><font>\u27a1\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/latvia\/how-to-apply-for-asylum-in-latvia\/\">How to apply for asylum in Latvia<\/a><font><br><font>\u27a1\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/latvia\/how-to-apply-for-family-reunification-in-latvia\/\">How to apply for family reunification<\/a><font><br><font>\u27a1\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/latvia\/where-to-find-help-in-latvia\/\">Where to seek help in Latvia<\/a><font><br><font>\u27a1\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/latvia\/about-unhcr-in-latvia\/\">About UNHCR in Latvia<\/a><font><br><font>\u27a1\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/latvia\/how-to-report-misconduct\/\">How to report misconduct<\/a><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Are you outside of Latvia?<\/strong> Are you seeking help for relatives abroad? Please select the country you are interested in information about on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/\">UNHCR\u2019s HELP homepage<\/a>&nbsp;or contact&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/where-we-work.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">your closest UNHCR country office<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you fleeing Ukraine and are in Poland, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Romania, or Bulgaria, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bluedothub.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">please find on the Digital Blue Dot<\/a>&nbsp;information about rights and services and where to find help. The site is also available in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bluedothub.org\/uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ukrainian<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bluedothub.org\/ru\/\" target=\"_blank\">Russian<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the \u2018HELP\u2019 website run by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. Here, refugees, asylum-seekers and stateless persons, as well as their family members and people who assist them, can obtain information about the asylum procedure and available services in Latvia. On this website, you will find: \u27a1\ufe0fInformation for people fleeing Ukraine seeking protection in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-120","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/latvia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/latvia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/latvia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/latvia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/latvia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/latvia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/latvia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/latvia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}