Home Department written question – answered at on 7 April 2014.
Michael Connarty
Labour, Linlithgow and East Falkirk
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how the UK Border Agency designates citizens who live and may have been born in Latvia and Estonia, whom the Governments of Latvia and Estonia continue to designate as Russian by cultural and language testing.
David Lidington
The Minister for Europe
I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Department for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.
This issue is a matter for the Estonian and Latvian authorities. Under the EU treaties, citizenship remains a member state competence. The UK can only recognise persons as European citizens if they are so recognised by the member state that issued their travel document.
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