The Ministry of Justice reserves the principle of 1 nationality
Judicial recently announced the Government's proposed meeting documents on the Program to develop laws and ordinances in 2024, adjusted in 2023. One of the laws mentioned by this agency is Nationality Law 2008 (amended and supplemented in 2014).
The principle of 1 nationality is the main theme throughout
According to the Ministry of Justice, there are suggestions to research and create conditions for thisVietnamese Settling abroad has 2 nationalities. This includes children whose father or mother is a Vietnamese citizen and the other is a foreign citizen who has the right to register their birth in Vietnam and determine their Vietnamese nationality.
In addition, there are opinions that the provisions in Decree No. 16/2020 on cases of returning to Vietnamese nationality while still retaining foreign nationality as currently are not feasible and need to be considered.
In response, the Ministry of Justice said that Article 4 of the Law on Nationality stipulates: The State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam recognizes that Vietnamese citizens have one nationality, which is Vietnamese nationality, unless otherwise specified by this law. different determination.
The principle of 1 nationality mentioned above is the main, throughout Vietnamese nationality law from 1945 to present, always understood, applied uniformly and identically with the concept of "Vietnamese citizen" (a person who has only one Vietnamese nationality).
In addition, Vietnamese law and Vietnamese state agencies only have the authority to regulate, recognize and confirm Vietnamese nationality. Whether a person has the nationality of a certain country must be decided by the competent authority of that country according to the law of that country.