The Vietnam Road Administration has just sent a telegram to provincial and municipal departments of transport, driver training facilities, and testing centers regarding the handover of state management of testing and granting of driver's licenses.

According to the Vietnam Road Administration, the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Public Security have signed a memorandum of understanding on the handover of management tasks regarding testing and granting of driving licenses.

Regarding the task of testing and granting driving licenses, the Vietnam Road Administration requires the Departments of Transport to continue organizing driving tests to ensure the completion of signing decisions to recognize successful candidates and granting driving licenses to successful candidates before March 1.

Departments of Transport have plans to receive and process applications for changing, re-issuing driving licenses, and issuing international driving licenses so that the receiving and signing of received driving licenses can take place continuously, without interruption, until before March 1.

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Departments of Transport continue driver training. Photo: Document

"The Department of Transport will stop organizing examinations and stop receiving examination registration reports, applications for changing, re-issuing driving licenses, and issuing international driving licenses from March 1," the Vietnam Road Administration requested.

Regarding driver training, the Vietnam Road Administration recommends that the Departments of Transport continue to manage driver training, training, testing, and issuing certificates of training in road traffic law knowledge.

In addition, the Vietnam Road Administration also requested the Departments of Transport to direct driving test centers to coordinate with local police to organize training courses for examiners for local police.

The Departments of Transport also send specialized and professional staff to coordinate, guide, and impart experience, skills, methods, and procedures to support units and local traffic police officers to proficiently perform professional tasks, operate, exploit, use, and operate the software system to manage, receive applications for changing, re-issuing driving licenses, and issuing international driving licenses directly and online.

Handing over facilities and equipment for driver's license issuance

In order to transfer tasks in a timely manner, without interrupting or affecting the testing and issuance of driving licenses, the Vietnam Road Administration requests that the Departments of Transport hand over the management tasks of testing and issuance of driving licenses to the police of the provinces and centrally-run cities.

Records and documents related to state management of testing and granting driving licenses include: Records of granting licenses for type 3 driving test centers and attached list; records of granting licenses for type 1 and 2 driving test centers and attached list (after June 1, 2024); records of approval of operation of driving practice grounds for testing motorcycle drivers and attached list.

List of examiners with valid examiner cards managed by the Department of Transport; records of driving tests organized by the Department of Transport; list of driving license renewals and re-issuances; issuance of international driving licenses; decisions on issuing paper motorcycle driving licenses issued before 2012 that are not yet available on the driving license database.

The database for managing driving tests and granting driving licenses at the Department of Transport includes: Driving license database; paper driving license database (before 2013); international driving license database.

Facilities and equipment serving the issuance of driving licenses include: PET card driving license printing system; international driving license printing system; cameras, scanners; and other related equipment.