What are cases of revocation and temporary seizure of citizen identity cards in Vietnam?

What are cases of revocation and temporary seizure of citizen identity cards in Vietnam? (Internet image)

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

1. What are cases of revocation and temporary seizure of citizen identity cards in Vietnam?

According to Article 28 of the Law on Citizen Identification 2014, regulations on Revocation and temporary seizure of citizen identity cards are as follows:

- A citizen identity card shall be revoked in case of deprivation or renunciation of Vietnamese nationality or annulment of the decision on naturalization in Vietnam.

- A citizen identity card shall be temporarily seized in the following cases:

+ A person serving a decision to send him/her to a reformatory, a compulsory educational institution or a compulsory detoxication establishment;

+ A person being in custody or temporary detention, or serving an imprisonment sentence.

- In the period of temporary seizure of his/her citizen identity card, a citizen may be allowed by the card-seizing agency to use this card for conducting transactions in accordance with law.

Upon the expiration of the custody or temporary detention period, or after having served the imprisonment sentence or decision to send him/her to the reformatory, compulsory educational institution or compulsory detoxication establishment, a citizen may have his/her citizen identity card returned.

- Competence to revoke and temporarily seize citizen identity cards:

+ Competent citizen identification management agencies may revoke citizen identity cards in the case specified in Clause 1 of Article 28 of the Law on Citizen Identification 2014;

+ Agencies executing custody or temporary detention warrants, agencies executing imprisonment sentences or decisions to send citizens to reformatories, compulsory educational institutions or compulsory detoxication establishments may temporarily seize citizen identity cards in the cases specified in Clause 2 of Article 28 of the Law on Citizen Identification 2014.

2. Use validity of citizen identity cards in Vietnam

Use validity of citizen identity cards according to Article 20 of the Law on Citizen Identification 2014 is as follows:

- Citizen identity card is a personal paper of a Vietnamese citizen which proves citizen identification of the card holder for conducting transactions in the Vietnamese territory.

- Citizen identity cards shall be used instead of passports in case Vietnam and a foreign country have signed a treaty or international agreement permitting citizens of the signatories to use citizen identity cards instead of passports in each other’s territory

- Competent agencies, organizations and individuals may request a citizen to produce his/her citizen identity cards for checking identification and information specified in Article 18 of the Law on Citizen Identification 2014; use personal identification numbers in citizen identity cards for checking information about the card holders in the national population database and specialized databases in accordance with law.

When a citizen produces his/her citizen identity card at the request of a competent agency, organization or individual, this agency, organization or individual may not request the citizen to produce another paper to prove the information specified in Clauses 1 and 3 of Article 20 of the Law on Citizen Identification 2014.

- The State shall protect legitimate rights and interests of holders of citizen identity cards in accordance with law.

3. Information shown on the citizen identity card in Vietnam

According to Clause 1, Article 18 of the Law on Citizen Identification 2014, a citizen identity card has the following information:

- On the front side of a card, there are the national emblem of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; the words “Cong hoa xa hoi chu nghia Viet Nam, Doc lap - Tu do - Hanh phuc” (The Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Independence - Freedom - Happiness); the words “Can cuoc cong dan” (Citizen identification); photo, citizen identity card number, family name, middle name and first name, birthdate, gender, nationality, native place, place of permanent residence; and expiry date.

- On the back side of a card, there is an encoded place for information storage; fingerprints, characteristics for identification of the card holder; date of card issuance; family name, middle name, first name, title and signature of the card issuer, and a seal bearing the national emblem of the card-issuing agency.

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