Shall valid passports in Vietnam be canceled the validity in case of loss?
Shall valid passports in Vietnam be canceled the validity in case of loss?
According to the provisions of Article 27 of the Law on Entry and Exit of Vietnamese citizens 2019 as follows:
Cases of revocation and cancellation of passports
1. Cancel a valid but lost passport
2. Revoke and cancel passports of persons subject to renunciation, denaturalization or annulled decision on naturalization of Vietnamese nationality.
3. Revoke and cancel valid diplomatic passports and official passports if holders are no longer eligible for use thereof.
4. Revoke and cancel passports issued to persons specified in Clause 1 Article 21 of this Law.
Thus, according to the above provisions, valid passports in Vietnam shall be canceled the validity in case of loss.
What is the duration for cancellation of the validity of a valid and lost ordinary passport in Vietnam?
According to the provisions of Clause 2, Article 28 of the Law on Entry and Exit of Vietnamese citizens 2019 as follows:
Cancellation of valid and lost passports
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2. Cancellation of regular passports is prescribed as follows:
a) Within 48 hours from the moment on which regular passports are found to be lost, original holders of such passports shall submit notice on loss of passports in person or in written form to immigration authorities of choice, the nearest police departments or entities supervising entry and exit at border checkpoints or Vietnam representative offices located overseas of choice. In case of force majeure, deadline for submission or sending of notice of loss may be longer but reasons thereof must be specified in such documents;
b) Within 1 working day from the date on which notice on loss of regular passports, accepting agencies are responsible for informing immigration authorities of Ministry of Public Security and persons submitting the notice using defined templates. Within 1 working day from the date on which the notice is received, immigration authorities of Ministry of Public Security shall cancel the passports.
According to the above provisions, within 48 hours from the moment on which regular passports are found to be lost, original holders of such passports shall submit a notice on the loss of passports in person or in written form to immigration authorities of choice, the nearest police departments or entities supervising entry and exit at border checkpoints or Vietnam representative offices located overseas of choice.
Within 1 working day from the date on which notice on the loss of regular passports, accepting agencies are responsible for informing immigration authorities of the Ministry of Public Security and persons submitting the notice using defined templates.
Within 1 working day from the date on which the notice is received, immigration authorities of the Ministry of Public Security shall cancel the passports.
What is the duration for cancellation of the validity of a lost diplomatic passport or official passport in Vietnam?
According to the provisions of Clause 1, Article 28 of the Law on Entry and Exit of Vietnamese citizens 2019 as follows:
Cancellation of valid and lost passports
1. Cancellation of diplomatic passports and official passports is prescribed as follows:
a) Supervisory authorities of persons issued with diplomatic passports and official passports shall submit written notice on loss of passports as soon as possible to consular missions of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, agencies assigned to Ministry of Foreign Affairs to issue passports or Vietnam representative offices located overseas of choice;
b) Within 1 working day from the date on which the notice on lost passport is received, consular missions of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, agencies assigned by Ministry of Foreign Affairs to issue passports or Vietnam representative offices located overseas shall cancel passports and inform bodies submitting the notice, immigration authorities of Ministry of Public Security, consular missions of Ministry of Foreign Affairs using templates in case such entities have not connected to the National database for entry and exit of Vietnamese citizens.
Accordingly, within 1 working day from the date on which the notice on the lost passport is received, consular missions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, agencies assigned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to issue passports, or Vietnam representative offices located overseas shall cancel passports.
At the same time, they must inform bodies submitting the notice, immigration authorities of the Ministry of Public Security, and consular missions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs using templates in case such entities have not connected to the National database for entry and exit of Vietnamese citizens.
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