President Truong Tan Sang signed an order dated June 26 to promulgate
the Law on amendments and supplements to the Law on Vietnamese
Nationality.
The law, approved on June 24 by National Assembly
deputies at their seventh session in the 13th tenure, contains changes
to articles 13 and 26 of the Law on Vietnamese Nationality.
The
new article 13 stipulates that citizens having Vietnamese nationality
include those who have Vietnamese nationality by the effective date of
this law and those who acquire Vietnamese nationality under this law.
Overseas Vietnamese, who have not yet lost Vietnamese nationality as
prescribed by Vietnamese law before the effective date of this law,
still retain their Vietnamese nationality.
Vietnamese residing
abroad, who have not yet lost Vietnamese nationality and have no papers
to prove their Vietnamese nationality as prescribed in article 11 of
this law, should make registration with overseas Vietnamese
representative missions to have their Vietnamese nationality recognised
and their Vietnamese passports issued.
Clause 3 of article 26
related to cases failing to register for retention of Vietnamese
nationality as prescribed in clause 2 of the old article 13 was
annulled.
The amended law took effect from June 26.-VNA