Prohibited acts regarding residence in Vietnam

According to the provisions of Article 7 of the Law on Residence 2020, prohibited acts regarding residence are prescribed as follows:

1. Obstructing citizens from exercising their right to freedom of residence.

2. Abusing the use of information about permanent and temporary residence as a condition to limit the legal rights and interests of citizens.

3. Giving, brokering, and accepting bribes in residence registration and management.

4. Failure to receive or delaying the receipt of applications, papers, documents, or residence registration information or other acts of harassment; Failure to perform or improper implementation of residence registration deadline for citizens when the application is eligible for residence registration; deletion of permanent residence registration or temporary residence registration contrary to the provisions of law.

5. Collecting, managing, and using residence registration fees contrary to the provisions of law.

6. Setting your own deadlines, procedures, papers, documents, and forms contrary to the provisions of law or falsifying information, books, and residence records.

7. Intentionally issuing or refusing to issue papers and documents on residence contrary to the provisions of law.

8. Taking advantage of the exercise of the right to freedom of residence to violate the interests of the State, the legitimate rights and interests of organizations and individuals.

9. Falsifying papers, documents, and residence data; using fake papers, documents, and data on residence; Providing false information, papers, and documents regarding residence; falsifying conditions, falsifying records, papers, and documents to obtain permanent or temporary residence registration; buy, sell, rent, lease, borrow, lend, pledge, mortgage, destroy papers and documents on residence.

10. Organizing, inciting, inciting, manipulating, seducing, assisting, or forcing others to violate the law on residence.

11. Resolve permanent residence registration or temporary residence registration when it is clear that the person registering permanent residence or temporary residence registration does not live at that place.

12. Agreeing to let another person register for permanent or temporary residence in your residence for personal gain or in reality the person registering for permanent or temporary residence does not live in that residence.

13. Illegally accessing, exploiting, destroying, obstructing, disrupting operations, changing, deleting, distributing, and providing information in the Residence Database.