Officials may not renounce Vietnamese nationality

17:18, 30/03/2011

A Vietnamese citizen who files an application for renunciation of Vietnamese nationality to acquire a foreign nationality may be permitted to renounce Vietnamese nationality. However, a person applying for renunciation of Vietnamese nationality may not renounce Vietnamese nationality if he/she falls into any of the following cases:

- Owing tax debts to the State or having a property obligation toward an agency, organization or individual in Vietnam;

- Being examined for penal liability;

- Serving a Vietnamese court’s judgment or ruling;

- Being kept in detention pending judgment enforcement;

- Serving a decision on application of the administrative handling measure of confinement to an education establishment, a medical treatment establishment or a reformatory.

Moreover, in the following cases, a person who applies for renunciation of Vietnamese nationality may not renounce Vietnamese nationality:

- Such renunciation is detrimental to Vietnam’s national interests.

- Cadres, civil servants and those who are serving in Vietnamese people’s armed forces may not renounce Vietnamese nationality.

View details in Article 27 of the Law on Vietnamese Nationality 2008, effective from July 01, 2009.

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