Principles of via-border gate exit and entry applied from January 15, 2015

According to Decree No. 112/2014/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, via-border gate exit and entry shall comply with the following principles:

- People, vehicles, goods and articles on exit and entry through a border gate must have adequate valid papers; comply with the principles and procedures for exit, entry, import and export and other provisions of Vietnamese law and treaties to which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a contracting party; and be subject to the management, inspection, control and supervision by specialized state management agencies at the border gate.

- People other than inhabitants on two sides, their vehicles and goods traveling through border crossings for implementation of the border trade policy shall comply with the Prime Minister’s regulations.

- The exit and entry of Vietnamese and foreign people, vehicles, goods and articles must be made only through border gates or crossings defined in Article 4 of this Decree.

Besides, Decree No. 112/2014/NĐ-CP also specifies 05 acts prohibited in border gate areas, specifically as follows:

- Using counterfeit passports and papers or passports and papers contrary to the provisions of Vietnamese law; organizing illegal exit and entry, sending, receiving, guiding and transporting people on illegal exit or entry.

- Propagating for, inciting or committing acts of undermining security, causing troubles or public disorder, causing hindrances to lawful circulation activities at border gates; declining to abide by or obstructing the inspection and control by specialized state management agencies at border gates; illegally using, trading in and transporting documents and objects containing information on military secrets and state secrets, and harmful books, papers and cultural products.

- Seeing off or receiving people, transporting, loading and unloading cargo not at designed places, entering restricted areas.

- Badly affecting public sanitation, causing environmental pollution and other acts adversely affecting the landscapes of border gates.

- Other activities in contravention of Vietnamese laws and treaties to which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a contracting party.

View full text at Decree No. 112/2014/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from January 15, 2015.

Thu Ba

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