Regulations on supervision of diplomatic passports and service passports in Vietnam

Conditions for issuance of diplomatic passports and service passports in Vietnam

Pursuant to the provisions of Article 10 of the Law on Entry and Exit of Vietnamese Citizen 2019, Vietnamese citizens shall be issued with diplomatic passports or service passports if they:

- Are specified in Article 8 or Article 9 of this Law; and

- Are assigned or permitted overseas travel by competent agencies and individuals specified in Article 11 of this Law to perform missions.

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Regulations on supervision of diplomatic passports and service passports in Vietnam

The supervision of diplomatic passports and service passports is specifically regulated in Article 24 of the Law on Entry and Exit of Vietnamese Citizen 2019 as follows:

(1) Competent agencies and individuals specified in Article 11 of this Law or agencies and individuals authorized for supervision of diplomatic passports and service passports are responsible for:

- Supervising diplomatic passports and service passports of employees, officials, officers and professional servicemen in People’s Army, People’s Public Security and individuals conducting cipher activities under their management;

- Supervising diplomatic passports, service passports of relatives specified in Clause 13 and Clause 14 Article 8, Clause 5 Article 9 of this Law of individuals under their management accompanying or visiting such individuals on their work trip.

(2) Procedures for supervision of diplomatic passports and service passports are prescribed as follows:

- Produce records to keep track of assignment and receipt of passports and ensure absolute safety to passports stored at agencies supervising passports;

- Assign passports to persons eligible for passport issuance upon decision on overseas work trip. Assignment of passports must be signed to verify;

- Transfer passports to new agencies and individuals supervising passports when persons issued with passports are reassigned;

- Inform competent agencies and individuals in written form about persons issued with passports deliberately failing to hand over passports to agencies and individuals supervising passports or using passports against regulations and law;

- Inform passport issuing bodies affiliated to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and immigration authorities of Ministry of Public Security promptly in written form about loss and/or damage to passports under their supervision;

- Hand over to passport issuing bodies affiliated to Ministry of Foreign Affairs to annul passports of persons no longer eligible for use of diplomatic passports and service passports;

- Report to competent agencies to take actions against violations in use and supervision of passports against original purposes.

Use of diplomatic passports and service passports in Vietnam

Pursuant to the provisions of Article 25 of the Law on Entry and Exit of Vietnamese Citizen 2019, persons issued with diplomatic passports and service passports shall use such passports in case of travel abroad according to decision on assignment or documents of acceptance of competent agencies and individuals specified in Article 11 of this Law, except for cases of studying abroad for more than 6 months.

Diplomatic passports and service passports for overseas work trip shall be used in accordance with decision on assignment for work trip and nature of work conducted overseas.

Mai Thanh Loi

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