Instructions on procedures for citizenship registration by overseas Vietnamese

Instructions on procedures for citizenship registration by overseas Vietnamese (Internet image)

Circular 02/2011/TT-BNG regulates procedures for citizenship registration by overseas Vietnamese as follows:

1. Citizenship registrants

Citizenship registrants include:

- Holders of valid Vietnamese passports or other passport substitutes.

- Persons without any papers specified above but having a paper proving their Vietnamese citizenship.

2. Citizenship registration procedures in Vietnam

- Each citizenship registrant shall submit 1 dossier, comprising:

= A completed citizenship registration form (which can be filled in online on websites of representative missions);

= A copy of the Vietnamese passport or passport substitute, for the cases specified in Clause 1. Article 2 of Circular 02/2011/TT-BNG;

= A copy of the personal identity paper and a copy of the paper proving Vietnamese nationality provided in Article 11 of the Law on Vietnamese Nationality 2008 (certificate of birth: identity card; decision permitting nationalization in Vietnam, decision permitting restoration of Vietnamese citizenship, decision recognizing adoption of a foreign child or decision permitting a foreigner to adopt a Vietnamese child), for the cases specified in Clause 2. Article 2 of Circular 02/2011/TT-BNG.

= A stamped addressed envelope, in case the registrant wishes to receive dossier-processing results by post.

- Citizenship registration dossiers may be submitted directly or by post to representative missions.

- Within 1 working day after receiving a complete and valid dossier, the representative mission shall examine and check information declared in the citizenship registration form against other papers in the dossier and. on that basis, process the dossier and notify the results in writing to the registrant.

- In case none of papers proving Vietnamese citizenship is available or such papers need further examination or verification, the representative mission shall guide the registrant to carry out procedures to verify his/her Vietnamese citizenship according to the nationality law. Upon receiving verification results from competent agencies, the representative mission shall immediately process the dossier and notify the results in writing to the registrant.

3. Agencies competent to register citizenship in Vietnam

Agencies competent to register citizenship include:

- Representative missions in the countries in which citizenship registrants reside or representative missions taking charge of these countries.

-. Representative missions which are convenient for citizenship registrants, in case no representative mission is based in the countries in which the registrants reside.

More details can be found in Circular 02/2011/TT-BNG, which comes into force from August 11, 2011.

Thuy Tram

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