Can friends of persons in stay visit them at accommodation establishments in Vietnam?

Can friends of persons in stay visit them at accommodation establishments in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Clause 1 and Clause 2, Article 10 of Decree 65/2020/ND-CP regulating regime of visiting persons in stay as follows:

1. Persons in stay may meet their relatives or their lawful representatives at visiting rooms of accommodation establishments.  Once a week, each visit may last no more than 2 hours. If a representative of Vietnamese agency or Vietnamese individual requests to meet a person in stay, the head of accommodation establishment shall consider making a decision, taking account of legitimate interests of the person of stay, the management requirements and crime prevention and control.

Persons in stay who well observe regulations of accommodation establishments may meet their spouses in separate rooms of accommodation establishments once a week for no more than 24 (twenty-four) hours once. A person in stay who has committed internal regulations of the accommodation establishment may only meet relative once a month for no more than 1 hour.

If a person in stay who has been investigated with respect to an offense or regarding other criminal cases is subject to a request for refusal to any visit or strict supervision of any visit made by the authority in charge of the case, the head of accommodation establishment shall comply with that request and provide explanation for the visitor and the person in stay.

2. Relatives allowed to visit the person in stay: paternal grandparents; maternal grandparents; parents; parents-in-law; legal adoptive parents; spouse; daughters/sons, daughters/sons-in-law, legal adoptive daughters/sons; natural brothers/sisters; brothers/sisters-in-law; uncles, aunts, nephews/nieces. Only 3 relatives or fewer are allowed in a visit; more but up to 5 persons are only allowed in exceptional cases with the consent of the head of accommodation establishment and the peace and safety of the accommodation establishment must not be disturbed.

According to this Article, you can meet your friend at the accommodation establishment of the Ministry of Public Security if you are the legal representative of the person in stay or in other cases considered to meet the conditions as prescribed above in Vietnam.

Can friends of persons in stay visit them at accommodation establishments in Vietnam? (Image from the Internet)

Is it necessary to submit an application to visit persons in stay at accommodation establishments pending the completion of exit procedures in Vietnam?

According to the provisions in Clause 3 of Article 10 of Decree 65/2020/ND-CP as follows:

3. Visiting procedures:

a) When wishing to visit a person in stay, his/her relative or lawful representative shall file a written request for permission in Vietnamese or translated into Vietnamese using the Form No. 1 in Annex hereto appended and present a passport, ID card or another identity paper to ensure the proper visit.

b) With regard to the person in stay who may meet the spouse in a separate room in clause 1, he/she must both meet the requirements in point a clause 3 and have a document proving that the visitor is his/her spouse, which bears certification of the diplomatic mission or consular office of the country which that person takes nationality or the representative body of the international organization in Vietnam where he/she works, or the People’s Committee of commune where he/she resides (if the spouse is a Vietnamese); or the person in stay and his/her spouse must file a written request for permission of visit in separate room using Form No. 2 of Annex hereto appended to the head of accommodation establishment for consideration.

c) A visit mentioned above shall be subject to discretion of the head of accommodation establishment dependent on the conditions and working hours of the accommodation establishment, and limited number of visits in clause 1.

According to this Article, the wife of the person in stay who wants to visit must make an application for a meeting written in Vietnamese or translated into Vietnamese according to the form and passport or identity card or citizen identification card or other identification document according to regulation as specified above in Vietnam.

Best regards!