Notes, observations, and explanations from a former Latvian diplomat who served three years at the Embassy of Latvia in Cairo and three and a half years in New Delhi — and now helps Middle East and South Asian families acquire Latvian residence. Updated regularly.
For three years in Cairo, I was the person who decided whether your family got into Latvia. Three things I learned in those three years that almost nobody outside the embassy knows — about why most applications fail, what makes them succeed, and what consular officers actually look for.
Read the articleMost families I speak with believe an EU residence permit costs at least half a million euros. They are wrong by a factor of eight. The actual 2026 prices for the major regulated EU residence-by-investment programmes — drawn from public regulatory sources.
We turn away roughly one out of every ten families who reach our document review stage. We tell them before they have paid us anything. Three reasons we send people away: source of funds that won't survive review, wrong nationality / banking jurisdiction, and wrong fit for what they actually want.