Documents for implementing investment procedures are understood as documents prepared by investors or competent state agencies to carry out procedures for granting and adjusting Investment Policy Approval Decisions and Investment Registration Certificates. investment, Certificate of outward investment registration and other related procedures to carry out investment activities according to the provisions of the Law on Investment. Decree No. 31/2021/ND-CP (As prescribed at Clause 7 Article 2 Decree No. 31/2021/ND-CP).

The language used in investment procedure documents is specified in Article 5 Decree No. 31/2021/ND-CP as follows:

Language used in investment procedure documents

1. Documents for implementing investment procedures, documents and reports sent to competent state agencies must be made in Vietnamese.

2. In case the application for investment procedures includes documents in a foreign language, the investor must have a Vietnamese translation attached to the documents in the foreign language.

3. In case papers and documents in the investment procedure dossier are made in Vietnamese and foreign languages, the Vietnamese version is used to carry out investment procedures.

4. The investor is responsible in case there is a difference between the content of the translation or copy and the original and in case there is a difference between the Vietnamese version and the foreign language version.

Thus, according to the above regulations, foreign languages ​​can still be used in investment procedures documents.

However, when submitting investment procedures with documents in a foreign language to competent state agencies, the investor must have a Vietnamese translation accompanied by documents in the foreign language.