Fees for issuance of regular passports, chip-mounted regular passports in Vietnam 2023

Fees for issuance of regular passports, chip-mounted regular passports in Vietnam 2023 (Internet image)

Regarding this issue, LawNet would like to answer as follows:

1. Current fees for issuance of passports in Vietnam

Fees for issuance of passports, laissez-passers, exit permit and AB stamps are specified in Circular 25/2021/TT-BTC, specifically:

Note:

- ABTC is a priority travel card for APEC officials (APEC Business Travel Card).

- AB stamp is a document allowing an individual carrying a popular passport to work abroad without visas.

2. Cases eligible for exempt passport issuance fee in Vietnam

Clause 2, Article 5 of Circular 25/2021/TT-BTC stipulates exempt passport issuance fee for:

- Overseas Vietnamese who are subject to deportation decisions issued by competent agencies in host countries without possessing passports;

- Overseas Vietnamese who must repatriate under international agreements on receiving citizens without passports and cases for humanitarian purposes.   

Note: For cases of exemption above, fee collectors must issue “Miễn thu phí”, “Miễn thu lệ phí” (Fee exempted) seals onto issued documents. 

3. Subjects issued with regular passports

According to Article 14 of the Law on Entry and Exit of Vietnamese Citizens 2019, Vietnamese citizens not specified in Article 21 of the Law on Entry and Exit of Vietnamese Citizens 2019 shall be considered for issuance of regular passports including:

- Persons failing to comply with decisions on administrative sanctions against violations specified in Clauses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 Article 4 of the Law on Entry and Exit of Vietnamese Citizens 2019: 

= Provide on purpose false information to be issued, extended or restored or false information relating to loss of entry and exit documents.

= Fabricate or use fabricated entry and exit documents to make entry or exit, or travel or reside in foreign countries.

= Gift, give, purchase, sell, borrow, lend, rent, lease, mortgage or receive collateral as entry and exit documents; destroy, erase or falsify entry and exit documents.

= Use entry and exit documents against regulations and law negatively impacting trustworthiness or damaging interests of Government.

= Take advantage of entry and exit to violate national security, social security and order of Vietnam, legal rights and interests of agencies and organizations, or lives, health, legal rights and interests of individuals

= Make entry or exit illegally; organize, arrange, assist, conceal, harbor or enable others to illegally make entry or exit; cross national borders without following procedures as per the law.

= Obstruct or interfere with law enforcers in issuing entry or exit documents or controlling entry or exit activities.

- Persons suspended from making exit, except in special cases, Minister of Public Security shall enter into agreements with persons making decisions on exit suspension to allow exit of persons subject to exit suspension (specified in Clauses 12 Article 37 of the Law on Entry and Exit of Vietnamese Citizens 2019)

- Persons influencing national defense and security according to decision of Minister of National Defense or Minister of Public Security.

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