Foreign settlement for 40 years, losing birth certificate (only have the birth certificate has been notarized), can you grant Vietnamese passports?

Attorney Nguyen Quoc Cuong gave a reply on the above question as follows:   

According to the provisions of law, the birth certificate (original, Vietnamese) is one of the documents that need to be provided when making a Vietnamese passport.

If you have lost Vietnamese birth certificate, you need to contact where it was provided to ask to excerpt birth certificate.

Based on Clause 5, Article 4 of the 2014 Law on Civil Status, the civil status database management agency consists of a civil status registration agency, Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other agencies shall be assigned the authority according to the provisions of law.

Therefore, you need to contact the Ministry of Justice or the provincial / municipal Department of Justice where you were born to carry out the procedures for excerpting the birth certificate.

After that, contact the US Embassy or Consulate in the US to receive a specific guidance on the process of applying for a passport with existing papers.

They will provide information about whether to add any documents and instructions on how to apply.

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