The National Assembly has just passed the Law No. 59/2014/QH13 dated November 20, 2014 decided to issued the citizen’s identity cards for Vietnamese citizens aged full 14 years or older from January 01, 2016.
Citizen’s identity card is a personal paper of a Vietnamese citizen which proves citizen identification of the card holder for conducting transactions in the Vietnamese territory. Citizen’s identity cards shall be used instead of passports in case Vietnam and a foreign country have signed a treaty or international agreement permitting citizens of the signatories to use citizen’s identity cards instead of passports in each other’s territory.
A citizen’s identity card has the information on the front side of a card, there are the national emblem of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; the words “Cong hoa xa hoi chu nghia Viet Nam, Doc lap – Tu do – Hanh phuc” (The Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Independence – Freedom –
Happiness); the words “Can cuoc cong dan” (Citizen identification); photo, citizen’s identity card number, family name, middle name and first name, birth date, gender, nationality, native place, place of permanent residence; and expiry date. On the back side of a card, there is an encoded place for information storage; fingerprints, characteristics for identification of the card holder; date of card issuance; family name, middle name, first name, title and signature of the card issuer, and a seal bearing the national emblem of the card-issuing agency.
People’s identity cards granted before January 01, 2016 remain valid till their expiry date; and shall be renewed into citizen’s identity cards upon request of citizens. The issued forms for which the use of information on people’s identity cards is required may be further used through December 31, 2019.
This Law takes effect on January 01, 2016.
