Is it permissible to take passports to mortgage in Vietnam?

Is it permissible to take passports to mortgage in Vietnam?

Article 4 of the Law on Entry and Exit of Vietnamese Citizens 2019 stipulates the following prohibited acts:

1. Provide on purpose false information to be issued, extended or restored or false information relating to loss of entry and exit documents.

2. Fabricate or use fabricated entry and exit documents to make entry or exit, or travel or reside in foreign countries.

3. Gift, give, purchase, sell, borrow, lend, rent, lease, mortgage or receive collateral as entry and exit documents; destroy, erase or falsify entry and exit documents.

4. Use entry and exit documents against regulations and law negatively impacting trustworthiness or damaging interests of Government.

5. Take advantage of entry and exit to violate national security, social security and order of Vietnam, legal rights and interests of agencies and organizations, or lives, health, legal rights and interests of individuals

6. Make entry or exit illegally; organize, arrange, assist, conceal, harbor or enable others to illegally make entry or exit; cross national borders without following procedures as per the law.

Clause 3, Article 2 of this Law also provides:

3. “Passports” are documents owned by the Government and issued by competent authorities of Vietnam to Vietnamese citizens to make entry, exit and prove nationality and personal record.

Based on the current regulations, it is possible to identify the passport as an entry and exit document. Therefore, it is not allowed to take passports to mortgage in Vietnam.

Who is granted an ordinary passport according to the abridged procedures in Vietnam?

In Article 17 of the Law on Entry and Exit of Vietnamese Citizens 2019, there are provisions on the persons who are granted ordinary passports according to simplified procedures as follows:

1. Persons travelling abroad for a definite period, losing their regular passports and wishing to return immediately.

2. Persons subject to written decision on expulsion of competent authorities of their host countries and lacking passports.

3. Persons forcibly returning to their countries according to international agreements or treaties on repatriation.

4. Persons issued with regular passports for purposes of national defense and security.

According to this Article, in the cases listed above, the ordinary passport will be issued according to the abridged procedures in Vietnam.

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