Regulations on civil status registration for Vietnamese citizens residing abroad

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15:36, 04/08/2023

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Regulations on civil status registration for Vietnamese citizens residing abroad

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Regulations on civil status registration for Vietnamese citizens residing abroad

Article 53 of the Law on Civil Status 2014 stipulates civil status registration for Vietnamese citizens residing abroad as follows:

- Representative missions shall register civil status matters prescribed in Article 3 of this Law for Vietnamese citizens residing abroad, if seeing that such registration is not against the law of the host country and treaties to which Vietnam is a contracting party.

- Pursuant to the Law on Civil Status 2014, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall coordinate with the Ministry of Justice in providing guidance on the competence and procedures for civil status registration and the grant of civil status extract copies to Vietnamese citizens residing abroad at representative missions.

Civil status officers at representative missions in Vietnam

- Representative missions shall appoint diplomats or consuls to perform civil status registration for Vietnamese citizens residing abroad.

- Diplomats and consuls performing civil status jobs shall, in addition to satisfying the conditions and criteria for diplomats and consuls, be trained in civil status work before performing civil status registration tasks.

Making of civil status books at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall make civil status books to record and update fully and manage uniformly civil status information of Vietnamese citizens residing abroad who have registered with representative missions and issue civil status extract copies.

Reporting responsibility of representative missions: After registering civil status for Vietnamese citizens residing abroad, representative missions shall send written reports enclosed with civil status extract copies to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for recording in civil status books and updating in the electronic civil status database.

Contents of civil status registration

1. Certifying in the civil status book the following civil status events:

- Birth;

- Marriage;

- Guardianship;

- Parent and child recognition;

- Civil status change and correction; ethnicity re-determination, civil status information addition;

- Death.

2. Recording in the civil status book civil status changes of an individual according to a judgment or decision of a competent state agency:

- Citizenship change;

- Parent and child determination;

- Gender re-assignment;

- Adoption and adoption termination;

- Divorce, cancellation of illegal marriage, recognition of marriage;

- Recognition of guardianship;

- Declaration or cancellation of declaration of a person to be missing, dead or have civil act capacity lost or restricted.

3. Recording in the civil status book the events of birth; marriage; divorce; marriage cancellation; guardianship; parent or child recognition; parent or child determination; adoption; civil status change; and death of Vietnamese citizens already settled at competent foreign agencies.

4. Certifying or recording in the civil status book other civil status matters in accordance with law.

Civil status means events prescribed above, which determine the personal history of an individual from birth to death.

Civil status registration means a competent state agency certifying or recording in the civil status book civil status events of an individual, creating a legal basis for the State to protect lawful rights and interests of the individual and manage the population. (According to the Law on Civil Status 2014)

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