1. Vietnamese citizens are not deprived of Vietnamese nationality, except in certain cases

Pursuant to Article 31 of the Law on Vietnamese Nationality:

“1. Vietnamese citizens residing abroad may be deprived of Vietnamese nationality if they commit acts that cause serious harms to the national independence, national construction and defense or the prestige of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

2. Persons who have been naturalized in Vietnam under Article 19 of this Law, regardless of whether they reside inside or outside the Vietnamese territory, may be deprived of Vietnamese nationality, if they commit acts specified in Clause 1 of this Article.”

If you do not fall into the above two cases, you still have Vietnamese nationality.

If You still have Vietnamese Citizenship, you have land use rights in Vietnam. You have full rights as prescribed in Article 166 of the Land Law 2013, which regulates the general rights of land users.

In addition, land users also have the rights specified in Article 167 of the 2013 Land Law: The right to convert, transfer, lease, sublease, inherit, donate, mortgage, and contribute capital to land use rights. .

If you renounce your Vietnamese nationality and acquire foreign nationality, you will be determined to be a person with foreign nationality.

When you are a person of foreign nationality, the inheritance of land use rights is carried out according to Clause 3, Article 186 of the 2013 Land Law.

Thus, in case you are a foreigner, based on the above regulations, you are not allowed to have your name on the Land Use Certificate, ownership of houses and other assets attached to land but you have the right to transfer according to the law. regulations mentioned above.

2. Regarding the issue of land use rights transfer:

Pursuant to the provisions of Article 5 and Article 169 of the 2013 Land Law, foreigners are not subject to the State's land allocation, land lease, land use rights recognition, or land use rights in Vietnam. Therefore, foreigners are not allowed to transfer land use rights in Vietnam.

3. Can foreigners buy houses in Vietnam?

According to Clause 1, Article 159 of the 2014 Housing Law, foreign organizations and individuals allowed to own houses in Vietnam include:

“1. Foreign entities eligible for the homeownership in Vietnam include:

a) Foreign entities who invest in project-based housing construction in Vietnam as prescribed in this Law and corresponding regulations of law;

b) Foreign-invested enterprises, branches, representative offices of foreign enterprises, foreign-invested funds and branches of foreign banks operating in Vietnam (hereinafter referred to as foreign organization);

c) Foreign individuals who are allowed to enter Vietnam.”

The foreign entities eligible for the homeownership in Vietnam if they:

“a) Invest in project-based housing construction in Vietnam as prescribed in this Law and corresponding regulations of law;

b) Buy, rent and purchase, receive, or inherit commercial housing including apartments and separate houses in the project for housing construction, except for areas under management relating to national defense and security as prescribed in regulations of the Government.”