From July 1, 2021, annulment of permanent residence registration in Vietnam (also known as household registration) will apply to nine cases according to Article 24 Residence Law 2020.
09 Cases of annulment of permanent residence registration in Vietnam (Illustration)
Specifically, in Clause 1, Article 24, it is clearly stated that a person who falls into one of the following 09 cases will have his/her permanent residence registration removed:
(1) The person is deceased or declared missing or deceased by the Court;
(2) The person resides overseas permanently;
(3) The person is issued with a decision on annulment of permanent residence registration according to regulations in Article 35 of this Law;
(4) The person is absent from their permanent residence for 12 consecutive months or more without registering any other place of residence as their temporary one or declaring temporary absence, unless they go abroad for any purpose besides permanent residence or serve a sentence in a prison, rehabilitation center or correctional institution;
(5) The person is permitted to renounce their Vietnamese citizenship or stripped of their Vietnamese citizenship or has the decision on grant of Vietnamese citizenship annulled by the competent authority;
(6) The person registered the place of residence that they were renting, borrowing or staying in as their permanent residence but has stopped renting, borrowing or staying in that place for 12 months and yet to register a new permanent residence, excluding the cases provided for in Point h herein;
(7) The person registered a lawful place of residence as their permanent residence but has transferred the ownership of this place to another person 12 months ago and yet to register a new permanent residence, unless the new owner agrees to let the person continue to rent, borrow or stay in this place and register it as their permanent residence and excluding the cases provided for in Point h herein;
(8) The person registered a place of residence that they were renting, borrowing or staying in as their permanent residence but has stopped renting, borrowing or staying in this place and is no longer permitted to register it as their permanent residence by the person allowing them to rent, borrow or stay in it; or the person registered a place of residence under their ownership as their permanent residence but has transferred ownership of the place to another person and is not permitted to register it as their permanent residence by the new owner;
(9) The person registers a place of residence that has been demolished or confiscated as decided by the competent authority or a vehicle the vehicle registration of which has been annulled as per the law as their permanent residence.
The Residence Law 2006 (which expires on July 1, 2021) stipulates 5 cases of annulment of permanent residence registration in Vietnam, including: (1) They die or are declared by a court as missing or dead; (2) They are enlisted into the People's Army or the People's Police and live in barracks; (3) They are given decisions to delete their permanent residence registration as provided for in Article 37 of this Law; (4) They settle abroad; (5) They have registered their permanent residence at a new place of residence; for this case, the agencies which have carried out procedures to register permanent residence for citizens at new places of residence shall immediately notify the agencies which have issued the papers on household registration transfer for deletion of permanent residence registration at the old places of residence. |
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