What are the responsibilities of registration authorities in Vietnam? What are the prohibited acts of residence?
What are the responsibilities of registration authorities in Vietnam?
The responsibilities of the registration authorities are specified in Article 33 of the 2020 Law on Residence in Vietnam as follows:
- Openly post administrative procedures; provide guidance on regulations of law on residence for regulatory bodies, individuals and households; announce locations, phone numbers or other ways of receiving stay notification and temporary absence declaration.
- Update information on citizens’ residence to the national population database and residence database.
- Confirm residence information, announce results of procedures for permanent residence registration, temporary residence registration, temporary residence extension, information declaration, revision of information on residence, household division and temporary absence declaration in writing, via electronic messages or by other ways as stipulated by the Minister of Public Security.
- Manage and retain documents on residence registration and management and protect information on residence registration.
- Handle propositions, complaints and denunciations of citizens concerning residence and residence management within their competence.
What are the responsibilities of registration authorities in Vietnam? What are the prohibited acts of residence?
What is the current form of Certificate of residence information in Vietnam?
The form of Certificate of residence information is Form CT07 issued together with Circular No. 56/2021/TT-BCA as follows:
Download the form of Certificate of residence information in Vietnam: Click here.
What are the prohibited acts of residence?
Pursuant to Article 7 of the 2020 Law on Residence in Vietnam, prohibited acts of residence include:
- Obstruct a citizen from exercising their right to freedom of residence.
- Misuse information on permanent or temporary residence to restrict a citizen’s legitimate rights and interests.
- Give, broker or receive a bribe for residence registration or management.
- Fail to receive or postpone receipt of residence registration documents or information or other acts of harassment; fail to process or process a valid application for residence registration in a belated manner; annul permanent or temporary residence registration against regulations of law.
- Collect, manage or use residence registration charges against regulations of law.
- Impose a deadline, procedure, document or form against regulations of law or falsify information or a document on residence.
- Deliberately issue or refuse to issue a document on residence against regulations of law.
- Misuse the right to freedom of residence to violate state interests or legitimate rights and interests of an organization or individual.
- Forge a document or data on residence; use a forged document or data on residence; provide inaccurate information or document on residence; make a false declaration or forge a document for permanent or temporary residence registration; buy, sell, hire, lease, borrow, lend, destroy, pawn or receive a document on residence as collateral.
- Organize, incite, entice, persuade, aid and abet or force another person to commit a violation against regulations on residence.
- Process an application for permanent or temporary residence registration when clearly knowing the applicant does not reside in the place in question.
- Let another person register one’s place of residence as their permanent or temporary residence out of selfish interest or when they does not actually reside in such place.
- Access, use, destroy, obstruct or disrupt operation of or change, delete, distribute or provide information in the residence database illegally.
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