Regulations on revocation and seizure of ID cards in Vietnam as of July 1, 2024

Regulations on revocation and seizure of ID cards in Vietnam as of July 1, 2024 (Internet image) 

Regarding this matter, LawNet would like to answer as follows:

Cases of revocation of ID cards in Vietnam as of July 1, 2024

An ID card shall be revoked in the following cases:

- Denaturalization or renunciation or annulment of the decision on naturalization of Vietnamese nationality;

- Issuance of the ID card in violation of laws;

- Erasure or correction of information on the ID card.

Cases of seizure of ID cards in Vietnam as of July 1, 2024

An ID card shall be seized in the following cases:

- A person is serving the judicial measure of education in a reformatory; a person is serving a decision to impose an administrative handling measure for sending him/her to a reformatory, a compulsory educational institution or a compulsory detoxification establishment;

- A person is in custody or temporary detention, or is serving an imprisonment sentence.

Note: In the period of seizure of an ID card, the card-seizing agency may consider giving permission for a citizen to use his/her card to carry out transactions and exercise his/her legitimate rights and interests.

A person whose ID card is seized specified above may have his/her ID card returned upon the expiration of the custody or temporary detention period or when there is a decision on cancellation of custody or temporary detention; or after having completely served the imprisonment sentence, or the judicial measure of education in a reformatory or the decision to impose an administrative handling measure for sending him/her to a reformatory, a compulsory educational institution or a compulsory detoxification establishment.

Authority to revoke or seize ID cards

The authority to revoke or seize ID cards is regulated as follows:

- The identification-managing agency shall revoke ID cards in cases specified above;

- The agency receiving documents and returning results when carrying out procedures for denaturalization or renunciation or annulment of the decision on naturalization of Vietnamese nationality shall be responsible for revoking ID cards of citizens for cancellation and notifying the identification-managing agency;

- The agency executing the decision on custody or temporary detention; the agency executing imprisonment sentence; the agency executing the judicial measure of education in a reformatory; or the agency executing the decision to impose an administrative handling measure for sending a citizen to a reformatory, a compulsory educational institution or a compulsory detoxification establishment shall seize the citizen’s ID card in any case specified above.

Legal basis: Article 29 of the Law on Identification 2023.

See also the Identity Law 2023, which takes effect from July 1, 2024, except for the case specified in Clause 3, Article 46 of the Identity Law 2023, which takes effect from January 15, 2024.

The 2014 Citizen Identification Law, amended in 2020, will expire from July 1, 2024.

Transition regulations

- Citizen identification cards issued before July 1, 2024 are valid until the expiration date printed on the card, except in cases where the expiration date is from January 15, 2024 to before June 30. /2024. Citizens will be given an ID card when they need it.

- An ID card with an expiry date after December 31, 2024 is valid until December 31, 2024. Legal documents issued using information from identity cards and citizen identification cards shall retain their validity; State agencies are not allowed to request citizens to change or adjust information on identity cards or citizen identification cards in issued documents.

- Citizen identification cards and identity cards that expire from January 15, 2024 to before June 30, 2024 will continue to be valid until June 30, 2024.

- Regulations on the use of citizen identification cards and identity cards in legal documents issued before July 1, 2024 are applied as for identification cards specified in the Law on Identification 2023 for until that legal document is amended, supplemented or replaced.

Ho Quoc Tuan

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