4. Article

Repatriation:a. The Participants, intend, in accordance with relevant domestic and international law, to take steps necessary to ensure that the Republic of Latvia and the United States accept for repatriation any citizen or former citizen against whom a final order of removal is issued within 21 calendar days after notification is provided that such order has been issued. For purposes of this paragraph, the Participants intend to enter into consultations on particular cases as necessary. A "former citizen" of the Republic of Latvia for purposes of this Memorandum of Understanding is a person who lost the citizenship of the Republic of Latvia after 22 July 1994 and did not have the citizenship of any other State at the moment of or after losing the citizenship of the Republic of Latvia. b. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security intends to provide the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Latvia with relevant information, to the extent authorized by law, concerning the person being repatriated, including information relating to the person's identity and the grounds for removal, as soon as legally feasible after the initiation of removal proceedings. c. The Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Latvia intends to confirm the identity and citizenship of the person within 21 calendar days after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has provided the information necessary for the identification of a person to be readmitted, as mentioned in Part B.4.b.