House sold, how to keep permanent residence registration?

Question: Previously, I had a house in Thanh Xuan district, Hanoi, my whole family registered permanent residence at this house address.

Recently, due to business losses, I had to sell this house and move to Ha Dong district to rent a house to live in. However, I want to keep my permanent residence for the convenience of my children's future education. Currently, my whole family has not yet transferred their permanent residence registration to the new place of residence.

I would like to ask, if the house has been sold, how can I keep my permanent residence registration at the old place?

Reply:

According to the provisions of Clause 1, Article 24 of the 2020 Law on Residence (effective from July 1, 2021), people in one of the following cases will have their permanent residence registration deleted:

a) Death; there is a court decision declaring missing or dead;

b) Going abroad to settle;

c) There has been a decision to cancel permanent residence registration as prescribed in Article 35 of this Law;

d) Continuous absence from the place of permanent residence for 12 months or more without registering temporary residence at another place of residence or without declaring temporary absence, except in cases of leaving the country but not for settlement or in cases of serving a prison sentence, serving a measure of compulsory education, compulsory drug rehabilitation, or compulsory reform school;

d) Has been given permission by a competent authority to renounce Vietnamese nationality, have Vietnamese nationality revoked, or have the decision to grant Vietnamese nationality revoked;

e) A person who has registered permanent residence at a rented, borrowed, or temporarily rented accommodation but has terminated the rental, borrowing, or temporarily rented accommodation and has not yet registered permanent residence at a new accommodation within 12 months from the date of termination of the rental, borrowing, or temporarily rented accommodation, except for the case specified in Point h of this Clause;

g) A person who has registered permanent residence at a legal residence but then the ownership of that residence has been transferred to another person and after 12 months from the date of transfer of ownership has not yet registered permanent residence at the new residence, except in cases where the new owner agrees to continue renting, lending, letting the person stay and allowing permanent residence registration at that residence or in the case specified in Point h of this Clause;

h) A person who has registered permanent residence at a rented, borrowed, or temporarily rented accommodation but has terminated the rental, borrowing, or temporarily rented accommodation and has not received the consent of the lessor, lender, or temporary tenant to keep the permanent residence registration at that accommodation; a person who has registered permanent residence at a accommodation under his/her ownership but has transferred ownership of the accommodation to another person and has not received the consent of the new owner to keep the permanent residence registration at that accommodation;

i) A person who has registered permanent residence at a place of residence that has been demolished or confiscated by decision of a competent State agency or at a vehicle that has had its vehicle registration removed according to the provisions of law.

Thus, according to the above regulations, when you sell your house, if within 12 months you do not register permanent residence at the new place of residence, your permanent residence registration will be deleted.

However, if you want to keep your permanent residence registration address at your old home, you can negotiate with the new landlord so that the landlord agrees to let you keep your permanent residence registration there.

Minh Hoa (t/h)

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