Can a 90-year-old old man in Vietnam renew his citizen’s identity card?

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• In Vietnam, can a 90-year-old old man renew his citizen’s identity card?
• In Vietnam, is a person being in temporary detention temporarily seized their citizen’s identity card?

In Vietnam, can a 90-year-old old man renew his citizen’s identity card?

Pursuant to Article 21 of the 2014 Law on Citizen Identification stipulating age eligible for renewal of citizen’s identity cards:

1. A citizen’s identity card must be renewed when a citizen reaches full 25 years, full 40 years and full 60 years.

2. Citizen’s identity cards which are granted, renewed or re-granted within 2 years before a citizen reaches the age specified in Clause 1 of this Article remain to be valid until he/she reaches the subsequent age eligible for card renewal.

Pursuant to applicable laws, a 90-year-old old man can renew his citizen’s identity card.

In Vietnam, is a person being in temporary detention temporarily seized their citizen’s identity card?

Pursuant to Article 28 of the 2014 Law on Citizen Identification stipulating revocation and temporary seizure of citizen’s identity cards:

1. A citizen’s identity card shall be revoked in case of deprivation or renunciation of Vietnamese nationality or annulment of the decision on naturalization in Vietnam.

2. A citizen’s identity card shall be temporarily seized in the following cases:

a/ A person serving a decision to send him/her to a reformatory, a compulsory educational institution or a compulsory detoxication establishment;

b/ A person being in custody or temporary detention, or serving an imprisonment sentence.

3. In the period of temporary seizure of his/her citizen’s identity card, a citizen may be allowed by the card-seizing agency to use this card for conducting transactions in accordance with law.

Upon the expiration of the custody or temporary detention period, or after having served the imprisonment sentence or decision to send him/her to the reformatory, compulsory educational institution or compulsory detoxication establishment, a citizen may have his/her citizen’s identity card returned.

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Accordingly, A person being in temporary detention is temporarily seized their citizen’s identity card. In the period of temporary seizure of his/her citizen’s identity card, a citizen may be allowed by the card-seizing agency to use this card for conducting transactions in accordance with law.

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