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More than 100,000 Siberians could get EU passports after Latvia changes little-noticed lawBy Will Stewart
PUBLISHED: 23:58, 9 September 2012 | UPDATED: 08:46, 10 September 2012

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More than 100,000 Russian citizens could qualify for EU passports under a little-noticed law change in a former Soviet country.
Latvia - which in recent years has seen a large exodus of its people to Britain and Germany, many taking low paid jobs - is to open its doors to �an unknown number� of Siberians.
The economically struggling Baltic state is to grant the right to citizenship to the children and grandchildren of all Latvians sent by Stalin and his Soviet successors into exile in Siberia.

More than 100,000 Russian citizens now have the right to claim EU passports
Everyone with a Latvian passport is entitled to work and live in Britain and significant communities from the ex-Soviet state are now established in England in places such as Manchester, Peterborough and Boston.
Official figures say the numbers are around 100,000, and there will be concerns this new move could see this figure grow.

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Latvia became a member of the European Union in 2004.
Legislation making the dramatic change passed a second reading last week in the Riga parliament.
�Tens of thousands of Siberians can claim EU passports,� ran a headline in the Siberian Times, which also quoted a Latvian official saying sums have not even been done on the scale of the likely surge to claim citizenship in the European Union country.
�We are still in the process of estimating the possible number,� he said, admitting it could run into six figures.
It is estimated that at least 75,000 Latvians were exiled to Siberia and while many perished in grotesque labour camps, a large number remained living under Soviet rule, the vast majority cruelly forbidden from returning to their occupied homeland.
Many married and had children and grandchildren who will now qualify for the passports.

An unknown number of Latvians were exiled to Siberia (pictured) between 1940 and 1990
Not only will all children and grandchildren of exiles from 1940 to 1990 be eligible, but so too will even more distant relatives of permanent residents of Latvia between 1881 and 1940 living now in Russia or any other country.
�These are people who were forced to leave our country, who have this ancestry,� said Latvian parliament Speaker Solvita Aboltina. �They will be eligible.�
The move has been taken by Latvia to right an historic wrong caused by invasions of the tiny state by both Hitler and Stalin, and more than four decades of occupation by Soviet forces.
However, there will be concerns in Britain - and Germany, which has also received tens of thousands of Latvian immigrants - that the move will add a strain to Europe�s creaking welfare system.
Many of those qualifying will be more ethnically Russian than Latvian.
Latvian ambassador to Britain Eduards Stiprais said last year that around 100,000 of his nationals were in Britain, including illegal workers. Others suggest a higher figure.
�It can be felt even on the street when the Latvian language is heard. It is not a surprise any more,� he said.

Any country in Eastern Europe with a struggling economy can export its welfare cases to Britain where the British taxpayer will then take responsibility for them.On behalf of the British people I would like to say to them all YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE !
Its not only Eastern Europe that is exporting its unemployed here, Spain had 30 thousand sign on here this year alone 50 thousand Greeks not to mention the other 250 thousand who come here every year to take our work and homes.
WE MUST BE MAD TO ALLOW THIS ANY LONGER WHILE OUR OWN PEOPLE CANNOT FIND WORK.
WHAT BENEFIT DOES THE EU GIVE BRITAIN? NOTHING