The Ministry of Justice of Vietnam must make statistics on foreign-involved marriage registration

According to Article 58 of Decree No. 126/2014/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government, the Ministry of Justice shall take responsibility before the Government for the uniform state management of foreign-involved marriage and family nationwide, having the following tasks and powers:

- To elaborate and propose competent state agencies to promulgate or promulgate according to its competence legal documents on foreign-involved marriage and family.

- To guide provincial-level People’s Committees and coordinate with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in directing and guiding representative missions in implementing the law on marriage and family involving foreign elements; and disseminating and educating about the law on marriage and family involving foreign elements and settling in accordance with law foreign-involved marriage and law matters.

- To uniformly issue civil status registration books and forms prescribed in this Decree.

- To inspect and examine the implementation of the law on marriage and family involving foreign elements; to settle complaints and denunciations in accordance with law; to handle administrative violations of regulations on foreign-involved marriage and family in accordance with law.

- To make statistics on marriage registration; and parent and child recognition; to grant marital status certificates; to record marriages and parent and child; to record divorces or the cancellation of illegal marriages in civil status books under this Decree.

- To carry out international cooperation in the field of foreign-involved marriage and family in accordance with law.

Besides, Decree No. 126/2014/ND-CP also stipulates tasks and powers of representative missions in state management of foreign-involved marriage and family as follows:

- Representative missions shall perform the state management of marriage and family and have the following tasks and powers:

+ To register marriages and parent and child recognition; to record in books marriages and parent and child recognition in accordance with the laws of host countries and treaties to which Vietnam is a contracting party;

+ To make statistics and biannually and annually report to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on marriage registration and parent and child recognition; and recording of marriages and parent and child recognition falling under their competence as prescribed by this Decree;

+ To update basic information on the laws, cultures, customs and habits of host countries and report to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;

+ To settle complaints and denunciations and handle administrative violations related to the settlement of civil status matters in accordance with law;

+ Other tasks and powers as prescribed by law.

- Diplomatic and consular public employees in charge of civil status affairs shall assist representative missions in performing the tasks and powers specified in Clause 1 of this Article, except the settlement of denunciations prescribed at Point d, Clause 1 of this Article.

View more details at Decree No. 126/2014/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from February 15, 2015.

Le Hai

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