What is the Time Frame for Reissuing the Household Registration Book?
Based on Clauses 2 and 3, Article 10 of Circular 35/2014/TT-BCA regarding the reissuance of household registration books as follows:
- In case the household registration book is damaged, it will be replaced; if lost, it will be reissued. The replaced or reissued household registration book will carry the number and content as the previously issued household registration book. The dossier for replacing or reissuing the household registration book includes:
a) Notification form of changes in household registration and residency. In the case of reissuing the household registration book in the city, district-level town under the province, and district, district-level town under the centrally-run city, it must be confirmed by the police of the commune, ward, commune-level town where the permanent residence is located in the notification form of changes in household registration and residency;
b) The household registration book (in case of replacing the household registration book due to damage) or the family household registration book, collective residency certificate (in case of replacing the old model household registration book with the new model).
The residence registration authority shall collect the damaged household registration book or the family household registration book, collective residency certificate and stamp it as canceled for the household registration dossier.
- Within 03 (three) working days from the date of receipt of a complete and valid dossier, the competent authority for permanent residence registration must replace or reissue the household registration book.
According to the aforementioned regulation, the time frame for reissuing the household registration book is 03 working days from the date of receipt of a complete and valid dossier.
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