Government has issued Decree No. 06/2012/ND-CP amending and supplementing some articles of the Decree on civil status, marriage and family, authentication, in which adding regulations on civil status registration records through the postal system and shortening the marriage registration time. Accordingly, the time of the marriage registration has been shortened from 5 days to 3 days.
Within 3 days after the full receipt of valid papers, if deeming that the male and female partners fully meet the marriage conditions provided for by the Law on Marriage and Family, commune-level People's Committees shall effect the marriage registration for the couple. Where verification is required, the above-said time limit may be prolonged for 5 days at most.
According to Decree 06/2012/ND-CP, upon civil status registration, if civil status judicial officials of communes, wards or district townships (hereinafter called civil status judicial officials) or judicial officials of Justice Sections of rural districts, urban districts, provincial capitals or towns (hereinafter called judicial officials of Justice Sections) or civil status officials of provincial/municipal Justice Services do not know clearly about the personal identities or residence places of the persons concerned, they shall request the latter to produce the following papers for examination:
1. People’s identity cards or passports of the civil status registration applicants in order to identify such individuals;
2. Household registration books, temporary residence registration papers (for Vietnamese citizens living in the country); permanent residence cards, temporary residence cards or certificates (for foreigners residing in Vietnam) for use as grounds to determine the civil status registration competence under the provisions of this Decree.
Sending civil status registration documents through the postal system that hasn’t been stipulated in the Decree No.158/2005/ND-CP is now specified and added in Decree 06/2012/ND-CP. Accordingly, in the case of civil status registration documents sent through the postal system, the above documents must be certified ;
The Decree also specifies additional time limits for civil status registration and its documents.
Decree 06/2012/ND-CP takes effect from April 1, 2012./.-ITD