Residence Law 2020 of Vietnam: Supplementing several prohibited acts from July 01, 2021

Article 7 of the Residence Law 2020 of Vietnam has supplemented several prohibited acts compared to the Residence Law 2006. Prohibited acts include:

(1) Obstruct a citizen from exercising their right to freedom of residence.

(2) Misuse information on permanent or temporary residence to restrict a citizen’s legitimate rights and interests.

(3) Give, broker or receive a bribe for residence registration or management.

(4) Fail to receive or postpone receipt of residence registration documents or information or other acts of harassment; fail to process or process a valid application for residence registration in a belated manner; annul permanent or temporary residence registration against regulations of law.

(5) Collect, manage or use residence registration charges against regulations of law.

(6) Impose a deadline, procedure, document or form against regulations of law or falsify information or a document on residence.

(7) Deliberately issue or refuse to issue a document on residence against regulations of law.

(8) Misuse the right to freedom of residence to violate state interests  or legitimate rights and interests of an organization or individual.

(9) Forge a document or data on residence; use a forged document or data on residence; provide inaccurate information or document on residence; make a false declaration or forge a document for permanent or temporary residence registration; buy, sell, hire, lease, borrow, lend, destroy, pawn or receive a document on residence as collateral.

(10) Organize, incite, entice, persuade, aid and abet or force another person to commit a violation against regulations on residence.

(11) Process an application for permanent or temporary residence registration when clearly knowing the applicant does not reside in the place in question.

(12) Let another person register one’s place of residence as their permanent or temporary residence out of selfish interest or when they does not actually reside in such place.

(13) Access, use, destroy, obstruct or disrupt operation of or change, delete, distribute or provide information in the residence database illegally.

Thus, above are 13 prohibited acts of residence that will be officially enforced in Vietnam from July 01, 2021. Therefore, people need to be careful not to violate the provisions of the law.

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

Ty Na

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