Using counterfeit papers to enter the border gate area is strictly prohibited in Vietnam

According to Decree No. 112/2014/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, 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.

Besides, Decree No. 112/2014/NĐ-CP specifies acts prohibited in border gate areas, including:

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

Le Hai

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