Recently, the National Assembly passed a resolution on the arrangement of provincial-level administrative units, reducing from 63 provinces and cities to 34. Thus, after 34 provinces and cities are expected to operate from July 1, the license plates of the provinces will be a collection of license plates before the merger.
For cars registered after July 1, there are currently no new instructions from the authorities on which license plate to use. For old cars in circulation, the license plate will not need to be reissued. The documents that have been issued before the merger are still valid until they expire, including the vehicle registration plate. People only have to change their vehicle registration or license plate when they are required to change.
According to Circular 79/2024 of the Ministry of Public Security, there are 6 cases where vehicle registration and license plate must be changed, including:
- Vehicle registration certificate, vehicle registration plate is blurred or damaged.
- Renovated vehicles; vehicles with changed paint colors.
- Vehicles that have been registered and issued with a white license plate, black letters and numbers are changed to a yellow license plate, black letters and numbers and vice versa.
- Change the information of the vehicle owner or vehicle owner who needs to change the vehicle registration certificate to a new address.
- The vehicle registration certificate has expired.
- Change the old vehicle registration certificate and license plate to the vehicle registration certificate and license plate according to the provisions of this Circular; vehicle owners who want to change short license plates to long plates or vice versa.
