{"id":160,"date":"2022-12-06T13:24:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T13:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/latvia\/?page_id=160"},"modified":"2024-09-05T14:50:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T14:50:29","slug":"about-unhcr-in-latvia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/latvia\/about-unhcr-in-latvia\/","title":{"rendered":"About UNHCR in Latvia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-background\" style=\"background-color:#fdf799\"><strong>All information and services provided by UNHCR and our partners are FREE OF CHARGE<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, protects people forced to flee their homes because of conflict and persecution. We save lives, protect rights and help build better futures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Latvia, UNHCR supports the national authorities in executing its duties in line with international and European standards. UNHCR is <strong>not<\/strong> part of the asylum procedure in Latvia. The asylum procedure in Latvia is under the responsibility of the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs under the Latvian Ministry of the Interior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNHCR in Latvia is part of UNHCR\u2019s Representation for the Nordic and Baltic Countries, based in Stockholm (Sweden).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact us<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have not found the information that you were looking for on this \u2018HELP\u2019 website, please feel free to contact us via phone or e-mail:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Phone:<\/strong>&nbsp;? <strong>+46 10 10 12 800<\/strong>&nbsp;(Mondays to Fridays, 10.00-12.00 Stockholm time)<br><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; E-mail:<\/strong>&nbsp;? <a href=\"mailto:swestprotection@unhcr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">swestprotection@unhcr.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-black-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#cce3f2\"><strong>If you don&#8217;t speak English or Swedish<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although we can only answer calls in English or Swedish, you can send us an e-mail in your&nbsp;<strong>preferred language<\/strong>&nbsp;explaining your situation, and we will reply. Our reply will, in most cases, be in English, but we encourage you to use&nbsp;Google Translate&nbsp;if you have difficulties understanding it or send us another e-mail asking us to clarify it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All information and services provided by UNHCR and our partners are FREE OF CHARGE. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, protects people forced to flee their homes because of conflict and persecution. We save lives, protect rights and help build better futures. In Latvia, UNHCR supports the national authorities in executing its duties in line with [&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-160","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/latvia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160","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=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/latvia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/latvia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/latvia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}