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Reporting of Lost and Stolen Passports (LASP): a. Without prejudice to sharing information via Interpol, the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Latvia, in cooperation with other competent authorities of the Republic of Latvia, intends to make available passport data for blank passports and issued passports reported as lost and stolen. Such data should be made available within 24 hours after the government entity that is responsible for recording and monitoring LASP data records that the passport has been lost or stolen. Such data should include, at a minimum, the following information: i. document number; ii. type of document; iii. reported status (lost, stolen blank, stolen from bearer, revoked); If available, such data should also include: iv. date of issuance, if not a blank passport; v. expiration date, if not a blank passport; vi. date of actual loss, theft, or revocation; and vii. location at which reported theft or loss took place. b. The Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Latvia intends to identify a point of contact that is available at all times and is capable of providing expeditious assistance to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of State to resolve questions about potentially lost or stolen passports that have been presented to the United States Government as a basis for identification. This point of contact should have access to passport issuance and LASP information maintained by the government entity responsible for storing and managing such data and should be capable of verifying whether or not the individual encountered is the person to whom the passport was issued, generally within four (4) hours. c. The Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Latvia intends to make available any correction of LASP data that is found to be erroneous within 24 hours. The Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Latvia also intends to make available within 24 hours any deletions or changes to its LASP data made available previously, exchange information on LASP trends and analysis, and share exemplars of its national passports with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of State. To facilitate compliance with these reporting standards and to address any questions about reporting practices, the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Latvia intends to establish a LASP point of contact at the policy level within the entity that is responsible for making available the data regarding blank and issued LASP. 4. 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.