Accordingly, Decree No.67/2024/ND-CP is approved by the Government to amend and supplement several provisions of Decree No.76/2020/ND-CP (detailing the subjects, procedures, authorities for granting, withdrawing, and canceling a lasses-passer) and Decree No.77/2020/ND-CP (regulating the management and exploitation of information in the national database on exit and entry; online public services for granting, managing, and controlling passports of Vietnamese citizens; exit and entry control through automatic control gates).
Regarding the application dossier for passport issuance, Decree No. 67/2024/ND-CP notably states that
- Persons with civil incapacity, persons with difficulties in cognition and self-control as prescribed by the Civil Code, and persons under 14 years old shall have their application form filled in and signed by their legal representative;
- Persons under 16 years old who apply for a common laissez-passer for exit and entry to the Vietnam-China border area with their father or mother shall have their application form filled in and signed by the father or mother.
Decree 67/2024/ND-CP amends and supplements the regulations on the places for submitting application dossiers for laissez-passer issuance. Under the new regulations, applicants for a Vietnam-Cambodia border laissez-passer shall either:
- Directly submit their dossiers to the Police Immigration Division of the province sharing the border with Cambodia and accommodating the applicant's agency, organization, or enterprise;
- Apply for the paper on the National Public Service e-Portal or the Ministry of Public Security's Public Service e-Portal.
Applicants for a Vietnam-Laos border laissez-passer shall submit their dossiers as follows:
- Vietnamese citizens permanently residing in a province sharing the border with Laos shall either directly submit their dossiers to the police at the commune- or district-level, or to the Police Immigration Division of the province where they permanently reside, or on the National Public Service e-Portal or the Ministry of Public Security's Public Service e-Portal;
- Vietnamese citizens not permanently residing in a province sharing the border with Laos but working in agencies, organizations, or enterprises headquartered in such a province shall directly submit their dossiers to the Police Immigration Division of that province, or on the National Public Service e-Portal or the Ministry of Public Security's Public Service e-Portal.
The Decree also stipulates that applicants for a laissez-passer for exit and entry to the Vietnam-China border area shall directly submit their dossiers to the commune-level police where they permanently reside, the district-level police where the applicant's agency is headquartered (depending on the subject as prescribed), or on the National Public Service e-Portal or the Ministry of Public Security's Public Service e-Portal.
Finally, the government requires that within one working day from the date of receiving a valid application dossier, the competent authority shall issue a laissez-passer and return the result to the applicant. If this deadline cannot be met, a written reply shall be provided stating the reason.
