Instructions on confirming the written agreement to choose British nationality for children of British citizens and Vietnamese citizens in Vietnam according to Official Dispatch No. 436/HTQTC-HT.

In Clause 2 Official Dispatch No. 436/HTTQTC-HT 2021, The Department of Civil Status, Citizenship and Authentication guides the confirmation of a written agreement to choose British nationality for children of British citizens and Vietnamese citizens as follows:

The Embassy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Hanoi said: according to British law, the British diplomatic representative agency in Vietnam (British Embassy in Hanoi and British Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City) Ho Chi Minh City) does not have the authority to confirm British citizenship for children (children of British citizens and Vietnamese citizens).

Therefore, when registering the birth of a child of a Vietnamese citizen and a British citizen at Vietnam's competent civil registration agency, the section recording the child's nationality (if Vietnamese nationality is not selected) Male, without written confirmation from another competent authority of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland that the child has British nationality) will be left blank.