www.canadaone.org/category/notes/ According to naturalisation management, check on knowledge of the Latvian language successfully is handed over by 90 % of applicants for the Latvian citizenship, on knowledge of history, the constitution and a hymn - 98 %. Nevertheless local mass-media repeatedly informed on swindle cases when wishing to obtain citizenship sent instead of itself the friend or the girlfriend well knowing language. In 2006 the Latvian diet has accepted to consideration offered by parliamentary fraction "to Fatherland and Freedom"/dnnl amendments to the criminal legislation. The bill provides for figureheads punishment in the form of imprisonment for the term up to two years, forced hard labor or the penalty to 50 minimum wage rates. At repeated commission of crime - five years of prison or the penalty in 100 minimum wage rates.