What is a civil status supplement?

Supplementing civil status is explained in Clause 13, Article 4 Law on Civil Status 2014 as follows:

Supplementing civil status is the act of a competent state agency updating missing civil status information for a registered individual.

Accordingly, supplementing civil status means a competent state agency updates missing civil status information for a registered individual.

In case the agency performing the civil status addition is not the previous civil status registration agency, how will it be resolved?

In case the agency performing the civil status addition is not the previous civil status registration agency, it shall be resolved according to Clause 4, Article 18.Circular 04/2020/TT-BTP as follows:

Supplement civil status information

1. Civil status documents specified in Clause 2, Article 75 of the Civil Status Law are valid for use without having to supplement missing civil status information compared to the current civil status form.

2. If civil status documents are validly issued from January 1, 2016, if civil status information is missing, it will be supplemented, if there are papers and documents duly issued by competent agencies or organizations. bright.

The request to record additional Vietnamese nationality is only made for civil status documents issued since January 1, 2016, after determining that the requester has Vietnamese nationality according to the provisions of the Vietnamese Nationality Law. Male.

3. In cases where an individual's birth was registered before January 1, 2016, but the birth certificate and birth registration book do not record the date and month of birth, the date and month of birth may be supplemented according to the birth certificate or document. confirmation from the medical facility where the individual was born.

In case there is no birth certificate or written confirmation from a medical facility, the date and month of birth is determined as follows:

a) For people whose records and personal papers consistently record the date and month of birth, the determination shall be based on that date and month of birth.

In case the date and month of birth in the records and personal documents are inconsistent, it will be determined according to the date and month of birth in the records and documents that were first issued or validly confirmed.

b) For people who do not have records or personal papers or records and personal papers that do not have a date and month of birth, the requester is allowed to declare the date and month of birth according to the provisions of Article 5 of this Circular. .

c) In case the date and month of birth cannot be determined according to the instructions in Points a and b of this Clause, the date and month of birth is January 1 of the year of birth; In case the month of birth can be determined but the date of birth cannot be determined, the date of birth is the 1st day of the month of birth.

4. In case the agency implementing the addition of civil status information is not the previous civil status registration agency, after settlement, it must notify in writing with a copy of the civil status extract to the registration agency. previous civil status to record in the civil status book; If the previous civil status registration agency was a representative agency, notify the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Accordingly, in case the agency implementing the civil status supplement is not the previous civil status registration agency, after settlement, it must notify in writing with a copy of the civil status extract to the civil status registration agency. previous citizenship to record in the civil status book;

If the previous civil status registration agency was a representative agency, notify the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.