Recently, the Government of Vietnam issued Decree 37/2021/ND-CP amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree 137/2015/ND-CP elaborating a number of articles and measures to implement the Law on Citizenship Identification.
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Procedures for assignment of personal identification numbers to citizens having birth certificates in Vietnam (Latest) (Illustration)
Notably, Decree 37 has amended and supplemented the procedures for assignment of personal identification numbers to citizens having birth certificates in Vietnam as previously prescribed in Decree 137. Accordingly, from the 14th day of this year. On May 5, 2021, the procedures for assignment of personal identification numbers to citizens having birth certificates in Vietnam are prescribed as follows:
(1) The database management body shall assign personal identification numbers (“PIN”) to citizens who have a birth certificate but no PIN based on information available in the national population database.
(2) After assigning PIN to a citizen, the database management body shall issue a written notification of the assigned PIN and information on the citizen available in the national population database to the citizen. If the citizen’s information in the database is inadequate, the notification shall include a request for the citizen to provide the missing information for the police of the commune where the citizen lives to have their information in the database updated or edited.
(3) For any citizen who already has PIN but has undergone sex reassignment or changed their birth year, the database management body shall assign another PIN to the citizen after the citizen finishes registering information concerning their sex or birth year according to regulations of law on civil registration. The database management body shall notify the new PIN to the citizen in writing.
(4). Identity card issuing authorities shall use PINs assigned by the database management body to issue identity cards according to regulations in Article 18 of Vietnam's Decree 137/2015/NĐ-CP.
Article 18. Persons issued with citizen identification cards
Vietnamese citizens aged 14 and up who have applied for permanent residency will be issued a citizen identification card. The basis for calculating age is based on the day, month, and year of birth of citizens in the National Population Database. If the person's date of birth is not available in the National Population Database, the original birth certificate or household registration book shall be used to determine the person's date of birth.
In addition to specifying the procedures for assignment of personal identification numbers to citizens having birth certificates in Vietnam, Decree 37/2021/ND-CP also adds two additional forms of use of information in the National Database of Population compared to current regulations. Specifically, from May 14, 2021, citizens can use information in the National Database on Population through 03 forms as follows:
- Via written information requests;
- Via text messages;
- Via the national population database, national public service portal, public service portal of the Ministry of Public Security and ministerial-level and provincial electronic single-window information systems.
Currently, according to Decree 137/2015/ND-CP, organizations and individuals wishing to use information in the National Population Database must send a written request to the National Population Database management agency.
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