Persons allowed to reside in land border areas of Vietnam

According to Decree No. 34/2014/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government, activities in land border areas include inhabiting, entering, traveling, producing, doing business; exploring and exploiting natural resources; constructing works, implementing projects and other activities related to the construction, management and protection of the national border, maintenance of social security, order and safety in land border areas.

Persons allowed to reside in land border areas include:

- Border inhabitants;

- Persons who have permits of competent public security agencies for residence in land border areas;

- Officers, professional army men, defense officials, defense workers and employees, non-commissioned officers, soldiers of the People’s Army; officers, workers, employees and professional and technical non-commissioned officers of the People’s Public Security Force whose units are stationed in land border areas.

Besides, Decree No. 34/2014/ND-CP also stipulates persons not allowed to reside in land border areas, including:

- Persons banned from residing in land border areas under decisions of competent agencies, persons not yet permitted to exit or persons suspended from exit;

- Persons banned from traveling outside their places of residence by procedure- conducting agencies;

- Persons sentenced to imprisonment, against whom judgment execution decisions are not yet issued, serving suspended sentences; or permitted to postpone or suspend the serving of imprisonment sentences; persons under probation;

- Persons subject to the measure of education in communes, wards or townships; consignment into reformatories, compulsory education establishments or compulsory detoxification establishments but permitted to postpone the execution of such measure or against whom enforcement of such measure is suspended.

- Persons other than those specified in Clause 1 of this Article;

The provisions of Points a, b, c and d of this Clause are not applicable to border inhabitants.

View more details at Decree No. 34/2014/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from June 15, 2014.

Le Hai

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