On the morning of June 24, with 416/416 National Assembly deputies participating in the vote, the National Assembly passed the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Vietnamese nationality.
Minister of Justice Nguyen Hai Ninh said that through the group and hall discussions, most opinions agreed with the development of laws to promptly remove obstacles and shortcomings of the current Law on Vietnamese nationality, contributing to attracting high-quality human resources to contribute to the development of the country.
The policies in the draft law will also contribute to creating a competitive advantage between Vietnam and other countries in attracting labor, especially high-quality labor.
The current National Assembly Law stipulates that Vietnamese naturalization candidates must meet many strict conditions. The draft law has been amended and supplemented in the direction of creating favorable conditions for investors, scientists, foreign experts... to become Vietnamese citizens with favorable conditions to attract high-quality resources.
Accordingly, people with special contributions to the cause of building and defending the Fatherland of Vietnam or benefiting the Socialist Republic of Vietnam when applying for Vietnamese citizenship are exempted from the conditions specified in Points c, d, dd, e, Clause 1, Article 19.
At the same time, these cases are allowed to retain foreign nationality if they meet 2 conditions similar to those in cases where relatives are Vietnamese citizens and are permitted by the President. These cases are submitted to the representative office of Vietnam abroad if residing abroad.
In addition to inheriting the provisions in Decree 16/2020/ND-CP, the Government will continue to study and concretize the "special mechanism for naturalization" stated in Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW to suit the new situation in the Decree detailing a number of articles and measures to implement the Law on Vietnamese nationality.
Regarding the relationship between the State and citizens, Minister Nguyen Hai Ninh said that Article 5 of the law stipulates: Candidates, elected, approved, appointed, or appointed to hold positions and titles according to their terms in agencies of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the State, the Vietnam Fatherland Front, central and local socio-political organizations; people working in key organizations; people participating in the armed forces of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam must be people with only one Vietnamese nationality and must have permanent residence in Vietnam.
Civil servants and public employees not subject to the above regulations must be people with only one nationality as a Vietnamese nationality, except in cases of mutual benefit to the State of Vietnam, not harming the national interests of Vietnam and must be permanent residents of Vietnam. The Government shall detail this clause.
In case another law issued before the effective date of this law has provisions on nationality other than those specified in Clauses 5 and 6 of this Article, the provisions of this law shall apply.
In case another law issued after the effective date of this law has regulations on nationality other than those prescribed in Clauses 5 and 6 of this Article, it is necessary to specifically determine the content of implementing or not implementing this regulation, the content of implementation according to the provisions of that other law.
