Who is eligible to be issued with regular passports via adoption of shortened procedures in Vietnam?

Who is eligible to be issued with regular passports via adoption of shortened procedures in Vietnam? (Internet image)

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

1. What is passport?

According to Clause 3, Article 2 of the Law on Entry and Exit of Vietnamese Citizens 2019, passports are documents owned by the Government and issued by competent authorities of Vietnam to Vietnamese citizens to make entry, exit and prove nationality and personal record

2. Who is eligible to be issued with regular passports via adoption of shortened procedures in Vietnam?

According to Article 17 of the Law on Entry and Exit of Vietnamese Citizens 2019, the following subjects will be granted ordinary passports according to simplified procedures:

(1) Persons travelling abroad for a definite period, losing their regular passports and wishing to return immediately.

(2) Persons subject to written decision on expulsion of competent authorities of their host countries and lacking passports.

(3) Persons forcibly returning to their countries according to international agreements or treaties on repatriation.

(4) Persons issued with regular passports for purposes of national defense and security.

3. What is the validity of regular passports issued under the shortened procedure in Vietnam?

Validity of regular passports is as follows:

- Regular passports issued to persons from 14 years of age shall be effective for 10 years and shall not be extended;

- Regular passports issued to persons under 14 years of age shall be effective for 05 years and shall not be extended;

- Regular passports issued by shortened procedures shall be effective for no more than 12 months and shall not be extended.

Thus, regular passports issued under shortened procedures are valid for no more than 12 months and especially, passports issued in this form will not be extended according to regulations.

(Clause 2, Article 7 of the Law on Entry and Exit of Vietnamese Citizens 2019)

4. Persons to be issued with regular passports under the law in Vietnam

In 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.

- 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 for cases 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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