Applicant for Issuance of Certificate of Marital Status Permitted to Delegate Authority

The person requesting for the issuance of a Marriage Status Certification is allowed to authorize others (illustrative image)

According to Article 2 of Circular 04/2020/TT-BTP, it is stipulated that the person requesting for the issuance of a civil status extract copy, issuance of a Marriage Status Certification, or requesting for civil status registration as prescribed in Article 3 of the Law on Civil Status (hereinafter referred to as civil status registration request) can authorize another person to perform the task on their behalf; except for the cases of marriage registration, re-marriage registration, and registration for the acknowledgment of father, mother, or child, which cannot be authorized to others. However, one party may directly submit the application at the competent civil status registration agency without needing a written authorization from the other party.

This Circular emphasizes that the authorization must be documented in writing and certified according to legal regulations. In cases where the authorized person is the grandparent, parent, child, spouse, sibling of the authorizer, the authorization document does not need to be certified.

Furthermore, in cases where the person registering the birth for a child is the grandparent or another relative as stipulated in Clause 1, Article 15 of the Law on Civil Status, there is no need for a written authorization from the child's parents, but there must be an agreement with the child's parents regarding the birth certificate details.

See more related regulations in Circular 04/2020/TT-BTP, effective from July 16, 2020.

Thu Ba

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