Vietnam: Does the fiancée of a person in temporary custody have the right to meet him?

According to Point d Clause 1 Article 9 of the Law on Custody and Temporary Detention 2015, a person in temporary custody has the right to meet relatives, defense lawyers, and consular contact.

According to Clause 8 Article 3 of this Law, the relatives of a person in temporary custody include paternal and maternal grandparents; biological parents, adoptive parents, parents-in-law; spouses; biological siblings or children, adoptive children, daughters-in-law, sons-in-law of the person in custody or detention; biological grandchildren of the person in custody or detention where the person in temporary custody is their grandparent.

According to the information provided, since you have not registered your marriage, you are not recognized as a relative of the person in temporary custody.

However, Clause 1 Article 22 of the Law on Custody and Temporary Detention 2015 stipulates the visitation rights of person in temporary custodys' relatives as follows:

A person in temporary custody is allowed to meet his or her relatives once during the temporary detention period, and once during each extension of the detention period. A person in temporary detention is allowed to meet relatives once a month; in cases of increasing the number of visits or the visitor is not a relative, the approval of the agency handling the case is required. The duration of each visit shall not exceed one hour.

As such, although you have not registered your marriage, you can still visit your boyfriend in temporary detention if the agency handling the case consents.

Sincerely!