Cases of mobile birth registration, death registration and marriage registration in Vietnam

Cases of mobile birth registration, death registration and marriage registration in Vietnam (Internet image)

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1. Cases of mobile birth registration, death registration and marriage registration in Vietnam

Cases of mobile birth registration, death registration and marriage registration according to Article 24 of Circular 04/2020/TT-BTP are as follows:

- In case a child is born to parents with a physical disability or illness that renders them unable to register the child’s birth or to parents in temporary detention or in prison and the child has no maternal or paternal grandparents or other relatives or these persons cannot register the child’s birth, the commune-level People’s Committee shall register the birth in a mobile manner.

In case a deceased person does not have any relatives or their relatives do not live in the same commune, or are old or weak, or have physical disabilities and cannot register their death, the commune-level People’s Committee shall register their death in a mobile manner.

In case both the male and female partners live in the same commune but one or both of them have a physical disability or illness that renders them unable to register their marriage, the People’s Committee of their commune shall register their marriage in a mobile manner.

- Besides the cases provided for in Clause 1 of Article 24 of Circular 04/2020/TT-BTP, depending on the actual situation of each commune, commune-level People’s Committee shall decide to register births, deaths and  marriages in a mobile manner.

- Commune-level People’s Committees shall allocate time, funding and work force for mobile civil registration according to regulations in Clauses 1 and 2 of Article 24 of Circular 04/2020/TT-BTP in a suitable way, ensuring all births, deaths and marriages are registered.

2. Mobile birth registration and death registration procedures in Vietnam

Mobile birth registration and death registration procedures according to Article 25 of Circular 04/2020/TT-BTP are as follows:

- The commune-level official in charge of justice - civil status affairs assigned the task of mobile birth registration and death registration shall prepare all necessary application forms and specimen civil status documents and ensure conditions for mobile registration at people’s houses or a mobile registration point, ensuring people’s convenience.

At the mobile civil registration point, the official in charge of justice - civil status affairs shall instruct applicants to fill out application forms; check documents acting as the bases for birth registration and death registration per the Law on Civil Status, Decree 123/2015/ND-CP and Circular 04/2020/TT-BTP; and draw up application receipt confirmations.

The result of a mobile birth/death registration application shall be announced no later than 05 working days from the date of receipt.

- Within 02 working days from the date of receipt of an application according to Clause 1 of Article 25 of Circular 04/2020/TT-BTP, the official in charge of justice - civil status affairs shall submit the civil status documents to the Chairperson of the commune-level People’s Committee for signature and record registration contents in the appropriate civil register.

- Within 05 working days per regulations in Clause 1 Article 25 of Circular 04/2020/TT-BTP, the official in charge of justice - civil status affairs shall bring the civil status documents and civil register to announce the result to the applicant at the mobile registration point; instruct people to put their signatures and full names to the civil register as regulated; and write "Mobile registration" in the Remark section of the civil register.

- If the applicant is illiterate, the official in charge of justice - civil status affairs shall fill out the application form directly and then read it aloud to the applicant and instruct the applicant to append their fingerprints to the application form.

When announcing the civil registration result, the official in charge of justice - civil status affairs shall read the civil status documents to the applicant and instruct them to append their fingerprints to the civil register.

These regulations are also applicable to the mobile marriage registration procedure provided for in Article 26 of Article 25 of Circular 04/2020/TT-BTP.

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