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Important updates on ID card issuance and renewal starting July 1 in Vietnam

On June 24, both the Ho Chi Minh City Police and Hanoi City Police announced a temporary suspension of issuing Citizen ID cards from June 25 to June 30.

Chip-based citizen ID cards not able or allowed to track users

The National Assembly’s Standing Committee yesterday agreed on the name the Law on Identification for the legal document stipulating regulations related to citizen ID cards.

Vietnam plans to issue new identification cards from January

 VietNamNet Bridge – Sixteen cities and provinces across Viet Nam will start issuing new ID cards from January 1, 2016.

Residence registration process creates ‘group' of urban poor

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dang Nguyen Anh, director of the Institute of Sociology, spoke to Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper about how challenges posed by household registration books affect migrants.

National census to be held in April

 VietNamNet Bridge – The General Statistics Office (GSO) will hold a mid-decade population and housing census throughout the nation beginning in April.

The Prime Minister agrees to remove parent names on ID cards

VietNamNet Bridge - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the Ministry of Public Security to cancel the issuance of new ID cards with the parent names of the card holders.