On September 4, 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the Court) ruled in Air Baltic Corporation AS v Valsts robežsardze that third-country nationals may enter the territory of the European Union if they present a valid visa inside an invalid passport in addition to a valid passport.  According to the press release, the case concerned an individual who “presented a valid Indian passport without a visa and a cancelled Indian passport to which a valid uniform visa issued by Italy was affixed. The Indian citizen was refused entry into Latvia on the ground that he did not have a valid visa.”  In its decision, the Court held that “under the Visa Code, only the competent authorities of a Member State may annul a visa” and so the cancellation of a passport does not automatically cancel a visa inside it as well.  The Court also found “that Latvia was not justified in making the entry of third-country nationals subject to the condition that a valid visa must necessarily be affixed to a valid travel document. Member States do not have discretion allowing them to refuse foreign nationals entry on the basis of a condition that is not laid down in the Schengen Borders Code: accordingly, nothing in that code allows Member States to require additional entry conditions to be fulfilled, as the list of those conditions is exhaustive.”