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Guidance on registration for recognition as Vietnamese nationality and issuance of Vietnamese passport

10:52, 21/10/2014

This is an outstanding content mentioned in Decree No. 97/2014/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government amending and supplementing some articles of Decree No. 78/2009/NĐ-CP stipulating in detail and guiding the implementation of the Law on Vietnamese nationality.

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Registration for recognition as Vietnamese nationality and issuance of Vietnamese passport are guided by Decree No. 97/2014/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government as follows:

- Overseas Vietnamese who have not yet lost Vietnamese nationality and have no papers to prove their Vietnamese nationality before July 01, 2009 according to the Vietnamese Law, should make registration with overseas Vietnamese representative missions to acquire recognition as Vietnamese nationality and have Vietnamese passport issued according to the provisions set out in Article 11 of the Law on Vietnamese nationality 2008 according to sequences, procedures defined in this Decree.

- Diplomatic representative agencies, consulates or other agencies are authorized to perform Vietnamese consular functions abroad where requestors are residing, receive and handle requests for recognition as Vietnamese nationality and issue Vietnamese passport.

+ In the event requestors reside in a country or territory without representative agencies, dossiers may be submitted to multi-office holding agencies or any agency considered as most convenient.

+ The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Justice shall post on their portal list of representative agencies as prescribed above.

View full text at Decree No. 97/2014/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from December 01, 2014.

Thu Ba

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