More cases of annulment of permanent residence registration in Vietnam from July 01, 2021

Article 24 of the Residence Law 2020 of Vietnam has supplemented more cases that permanent residence registration of a person will be annulled from July 01, 2021, including:

- The person is deceased or declared missing or deceased by the Court;

- The person resides overseas permanently;

- The person is issued with a decision on annulment of permanent residence registration according to regulations in Article 35 of this Law;

- The person is absent from their permanent residence for 12 consecutive months or more without registering any other place of residence as their temporary one or declaring temporary absence, unless they go abroad for any purpose besides permanent residence or serve a sentence in a prison, rehabilitation center or correctional institution; (new provision)

- The person is permitted to renounce their Vietnamese citizenship or stripped of their Vietnamese citizenship or has the decision on grant of Vietnamese citizenship annulled by the competent authority; (new provision)

- The person registered the place of residence that they were renting, borrowing or staying in as their permanent residence but has stopped renting, borrowing or staying in that place for 12 months and yet to register a new permanent residence; (new provision)

- The person registered a lawful place of residence as their permanent residence but has transferred the ownership of this place to another person 12 months ago and yet to register a new permanent residence, unless the new owner agrees to let the person continue to rent, borrow or stay in this place and register it as their permanent residence; (new provision)

- The person registered a place of residence that they were renting, borrowing or staying in as their permanent residence but has stopped renting, borrowing or staying in this place and is no longer permitted to register it as their permanent residence by the person allowing them to rent, borrow or stay in it; or the person registered a place of residence under their ownership as their permanent residence but has transferred ownership of the place to another person and is not permitted to register it as their permanent residence by the new owner; (new provision)

- The person registers a place of residence that has been demolished or confiscated as decided by the competent authority or a vehicle the vehicle registration of which has been annulled as per the law as their permanent residence. (new provision)

Thus, it can be seen that, from July 01, 2021, when the Residence Law 2020 of Vietnam officially takes effect, there are 06 more cases of annulment of permanent residence registration. The registration authority with which a person registers their permanent residence has the power to annul such registration and must specify the reason for and time of such annulment in the residence database.

View more details at the Residence Law 2020 of Vietnam, effective from July 01, 2021.

Ty Na

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