Latest proposal on granting residence certificates to people without permanent or temporary residence

People without a permanent or temporary residence must immediately declare their residence information to the residence registration agency at their current place of residence, either in person or online.

In the draft Decree detailing a number of articles of the Law on Residence, the Ministry of Public Security proposed that people without a permanent or temporary residence must immediately declare to the residence registration agency at their current place of residence.

In case you have a permanent residence but your actual place of residence does not meet the conditions for permanent or temporary residence registration, you must declare information about your current place of residence to the residence registration agency where you are actually living to update information about your current place of residence in the Residence Database.

In case, through inspection and review, the residence registration agency discovers that a person is required to declare information about residence, it is responsible for guiding and requesting that citizen to make the declaration.

Within 30 days from the date the residence registration authority requests the citizen to declare information about residence, the citizen must go to the residence registration authority to make the declaration.

Declaration of residence information is done directly or online via public services, electronic identification and authentication applications if citizens already have information in the National Population Database.

In case the declarant of residence information does not have identification documents, the residence registration agency shall coordinate with relevant agencies, organizations and individuals to check and verify the declarant's personal information.

If, after checking and verifying, it is determined that the information declared by the declarant about the residence is incorrect, the residence registration authority shall issue a written refusal to accept the declaration of residence information and request that the declarant re-declare for checking and verification according to regulations (except in cases where the information declared by the declarant is consistent with the results of the previous verification). The time limit for checking and verifying again shall be calculated as the time limit for checking and verifying for the first time.

After checking and verifying, if there is a basis to determine that the person making the declaration is a Vietnamese citizen and the information that person declared is accurate, the residence registration agency will update that person's information in the National Population Database according to regulations to request the identification management agency of the Ministry of Public Security to establish and issue a personal identification number. The residence registration agency will issue a certificate of confirmation of residence information to the citizen according to regulations.

The People's Committee at the commune level shall, based on the certificate of information on the citizen's residence and the citizen's information on the National Population Database, update information on civil status and issue documents related to the citizen's identity according to its authority.

A person who has been granted a certificate of residence information is responsible for registering permanent or temporary residence as soon as he/she meets the conditions prescribed by the Law on Residence; in case he/she is still not eligible to register permanent or temporary residence but has changes in personal information, he/she must re-declare to the Commune-level Police where the certificate was granted to review and update personal information in the Residence Database and the National Population Database.

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