Is there any fees for death registration in Vietnam?

Is there any fees for death registration in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Article 11 of the Civil Status in 2014 stipulating as follows:

- Civil status fees shall be exempted in the following cases:

+ Civil status registration for members of families that have rendered meritorious services to the revolution; members of poor households; persons with disabilities;

+ Birth and death registration on time, guardianship and marriage of Vietnamese citizens residing in the country.

- Individuals who request registration of civil status events other than those prescribed in Clause 1 of this Article or issue of civil status extract copies shall pay a fee.

The Ministry of Finance shall stipulate in detail the competence to collect, fee rates and the management and use of civil status fees.

Pursuant to Article 33 of the Civil Status in 2014 stipulating time limit and responsibility for death registration in Vietnam as follows:

Within 15 days after the date a person dies, his/her spouse, child, parent or another relative shall register his/her death; for a deceased person without any relative, a representative of a related agency, organization or person shall register his/her death.

As regulations above, within 15 days after the date your father dies, you shall register his death without any fees.

Which agencies in Vietnam have competence to register death?

Pursuant to Article 32 of the Civil Status in 2014 stipulating competence to register death in Vietnam as follows:

- Commune-level People's Committees of the last places of residence of deceased persons shall register their death. If the last place of residence of the deceased person cannot be identified, the commune-level People's Committee of the place where such person dies or his/her body is found shall register his/her death.

- Justice and civil status officers shall regularly examine and urge the death registration in their localities within the prescribed time limit; in case of necessity, mobile birth registration may be made. In case the person responsible for declaring death cannot be identified, the justice and civil status officers shall register the death.

What are procedures for death registration in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Article 34 of the Civil Status in 2014 stipulating procedures for death registration in Vietnam as follows:

- Persons responsible for death registration shall submit declarations, made according to a set form, and death notices or other substitute papers to the civil status registration agency.

- Immediately after receiving papers specified in Clause 1 of this Article, if seeing that the death declaration is proper, the justice and civil status officer shall record the death declaration contents in the civil status book and together with the death declarant sign in the civil status book and report to the chairperson of the commune-level People's Committee to issue an extract to the death declarant.

The justice and civil status officer shall close civil status information of the deceased person in the electronic civil status database.

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