Vietnam: People will have their right of residence restricted if they fall into one of the 13 cases mentioned above

According to Clause 2 Article 4 of the Residence Law 2020 of Vietnam, exercise of the right to freedom of residence of citizens will be restricted for the following cases:

- Persons banned from leaving their place of residence or temporarily detained by presiding officers or presiding authorities; 

- Convicts yet to receive the sentence enforcement decision or having received the sentence enforcement decision but out on bail or granted suspension of sentence enforcement;

- Convicts undergoing probation; 

- Persons serving a custodial sentence, imposed a residence ban, under mandatory supervision or serving a community sentence; 

- Persons on parole;

- Persons currently subject to compulsory education in their communes or serving a sentence in a correctional institution or rehabilitation center; 

- Persons to serve a sentence in a correctional institution or rehabilitation center but granted suspension of sentence enforcement; 

- Persons under supervision during consideration of admission to a correctional institution or rehabilitation center;

- Persons placed under medical quarantine as they pose the risk of spreading an infectious disease to the community;

- Locations and areas placed under medical quarantine for prevention and control of an infectious disease as per the decision of the competent authority or person; 

- Localities declaring state of emergency as per the law; 

- Locations forbidden from new permanent residence registration, new temporary residence registration and household division according to regulations of this Law;

- Other cases per the law.

Thus, according to this regulation, people will have their right of residence restricted if they fall into one of the 13 cases mentioned above. Content and duration of such restriction shall conform to effective judgments and decisions of the Court, decisions of other competent authorities or relevant regulations of law.

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

Ty Na

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