THE PROCEDURES FOR OVERSEAS VIETNAMESE TO REGISTER PERMANENT RESIDENCE IN VIETNAM
Vietnamese citizens living in abroad want to repatriate to VN should apply for permanent residence registration in Vietnam to the diplomatic representative agency in VN in the host country.
- General regulations:
Currently, Vietnamese citizen living in abroad who also holds Vietnamese nationality can do the procedure to register permanently residing in Vietnam.
There are three objects of overseas Vietnamese can register permanent residence in Vietnam:
The overseas Vietnamese holding valid passport or passport substitute papers issued by foreign countries;
Overseas Vietnamese who do not hold foreign passports, but permanent residence papers granted by foreign authorities;
Overseas Vietnamese who still holds valid Vietnamese passport.
Two conditions be satisfied:
there are proofs about having Vietnamese nationality or still holding Vietnamese nationality as regulations.
There are legitimate housing in Vietnam, including owned houses or rented house
- A DOSSIER OF REQUEST FOR PERMANENT RESIDENCE IN VIETNAM, WHICH SHALL BE MADE IN TWO SETS, COMPRISES:
1. An application for permanent residence in Vietnam (made according to a set form);
2. A certified copy of foreign passport or residence paper granted by a foreign authority (or a photocopy enclosed with the original for comparison);
3. The certified copy of any papers evidencing Vietnamese nationality.
4. Three 4 cm x 6 cm recent photos with white background showing the applicant looking straight, bareheaded and wearing no color glasses (2 photos glued to the application and the other left loose);
5. Either of the papers evidencing that the applicant lawfully has homes in Vietnam, including owned homes or having homes by lease or borrowing of or permitted stay in houses of other individuals.
6. Overseas Vietnamese applicants who wish to permanently reside in centrally run cities shall, in addition to the above papers, produce any of the following papers evidencing their eligibility for registering permanent residence in those cities (under Clauses 1, 2 and 4, Article 20 of the Residence Law):
6.1 Overseas Vietnamese who lawfully have homes shall produce either of the following papers evidencing their constant temporary residence in those cities for at least one year:
– Paper on temporary residence for a definite duration or written certification of the police of wards, communes or townships on temporary residence duration;
– Temporary residence book or written certification of the police of wards, communes or townships on registered temporary residence duration.
6.2. An overseas Vietnamese who is allowed by the household residence book owner to be named in this book shall produce any of the following papers evidencing the blood relation between them:
– A wife living with her husband; a husband living with his wife; a child living with his/her parent(s); a father or mother living with his/her child;
– Person beyond the working age, on pension, resigning on poor health or being laid-off and living with blood sibling;
– Person with disabilities, losing working capacity or suffering from mental illness or other diseases which render him/her in capable of perceiving or controlling his/her act, and living with blood sibling, aunt or uncle, or guardian;
– Minor whose parent die or cannot afford his/her and living with paternal or maternal grandparents, blood sibling, aunt or uncle, or guardian;
– Single minor living with paternal or maternal grandparents.
When papers evidencing the above blood relations are unavailable, the surety shall make a written explanation which is certified by the commune-level People’s Committee of the locality where his/her permanent residence is registered.
6.3. Papers evidencing that overseas Vietnamese has previously registered permanent residence in centrally run cities and now they return to these cities to live in their lawful homes.
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