• Persons who request civil status change or correction, ethnicity re-determination, gender re-determination and/or civil status supplementation must submit their declarations (made according to a set form), produce the original birth certificates of the persons who need the civil status change or correction, ethnicity re-determination, gender re-determination or civil status supplementation, and relevant papers for use as bases for civil status change or correction, ethnicity re-determination, gender re-determination or civil status supplementation.

For the case of gender re-determination, the written conclusions of the medical establishments which have conducted medical intervention to re-determine gender shall serve as a basis for gender re-determination.

The civil status change and correction, ethnicity re-determination, gender re-determination or civil status supplementation for minors or persons losing their civil act capacity shall be made at the request of their fathers, mothers or guardians.

For changes in family names, given names of persons of full 9 years or older and ethnicity re-determination for minors of full 15 years or older, their consent is required.

• Within 5 days after the full receipt of valid dossiers, if the civil status change or correction, ethnicity re-determination or gender re-determination satisfies the law-prescribed conditions, civil status judicial officials or judicial officials of Justice Sections shall record such in the civil status change, correction registration books and the decisions permitting the civil status change or correction, ethnicity re-determination or gender re-determination. The presidents of commune-level People's Committees or district-level People's Committees shall sign and grant the decisions permitting the civil status change or correction, ethnicity re-determination or gender re-determination to the persons concerned, each with one original. The duplicates of such decisions shall be issued at the request of the persons concerned.

Where it is necessary to make verification, the above-said time limit may be prolonged for 5 days at most.

The contents of and grounds for civil status change or correction, ethnicity re-determination or gender re-determination must be written in the notes column of the birth registration books and on the back of the original birth certificates.

The civil status supplementation shall be effected immediately after the full receipt of valid papers. The supplemented contents shall be written directly in the corresponding column and section in the birth registration books and the original birth certificates. Civil status judicial officials shall affix stamps on the supplements. The notes column of the birth registration books and the back of the original birth certificates must be written clearly with the supplemented contents; the grounds for writing of supplements; the full name and signature of the supplement writer; and the date of supplementation. Civil status judicial officials shall affix stamps on the written supplements.

Where the birth registration books and the original birth certificates do not contain a column or section for writing supplements, the supplemented contents shall be written on the back of the original birth certificates and the notes column of the birth registration books.

Where the civil status registration was made by commune-level People's Committees, but the civil status books have been kept only at district-level People's Committees, such district-level People's Committees shall effect the supplementation.

• After the civil status change or correction, ethnicity re-determination, gender re-determination or civil status supplements has been recorded in birth registration books, the birth certificate duplicates issued based on such birth registration books shall be written with the changed, corrected or supplemented contents.

• Where the contents of the original birth certificates of the fathers, mothers have changed due to civil status change, correction, supplementation, ethnicity re-determination, the commune-level People's Committees with which birth registration has been made for their children shall base themselves on the original birth certificates of the fathers, mothers to make suitable adjustment to such contents in the section on father, mother declaration in the birth registration books and the children's birth certificates; if the birth registration books have been transferred to district-level People's Committees for archival, such district-level People's Committees shall make the adjustment.

• Statement according to the form
• The original of Birth certificate
• Relevant papers to be basis for the change, correction on the civil status, redefining ethnic group, redefining the gender, supplementing the civil status.

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The right to change names

• Individuals have the right to require state agencies competent to recognize the changed names in the following cases:
  • At the request of people with names that use names that confuse, influence of family love, honor, rights and lawful interests of such persons;
  • At the request of the adoptive father, adoptive mother about changing names for adoption or foster child when stopped and the adoption or father or mother regain their request, the name of the father , native was placed;
  • At the request of the father or mother or children identified as father, mother to child;
  • Change their children from their father to their mother or vice versa;
  • Change the names of people who had been wandering to find out the source of her blood;
  • Change the names of people who are redefining gender;
  • Other cases by civil law provisions.
• The change of names for the full nine years of age must have the consent of that person.
• The change of names of individuals do not change, termination rights and civil obligations established under their old name.

Change or rectification of civil status for under-14 persons, re-determination of nationality, re-determination of sex, addition and adjustment of civil status registration details: Not exceeding VND 25,000.

Change or rectification of civil status for under-14 persons, addition of civil status registration details: Not exceeding VND 10,000.

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The scope of changing, correcting civil status, re-determining the ethnicity, re-determining the gender, supplementing civil status, adjusting civil status under the provisions shall cover:

• Changes in family names, given names, middle names, which have been correctly registered in birth registration books and the original birth certificates but are requested for changes by individuals with plausible reasons under the provisions of the Civil Code.
• Correction of contents already registered in birth registration books and original birth certificates but containing errors upon registration.
• Re-determination of ethnicity of children according to the ethnicity of their fathers or the ethnicity of their mothers under the provisions of the Civil Code.
• Re-determination of the gender of a person in cases where the gender of such person has an inborn deformity or has not yet been properly formed, thus needing a medical intervention to clearly determine the gender.
• Addition of contents not yet registered in birth registration books and original birth certificates.
• Adjustment of contents in household registration books and other civil status papers other than birth registration books and original birth certificates.

The commune-level People's Committees which have issued birth certificates shall be competent to change or correct civil status for persons of under 14 years old and supplement civil status for all people regardless of their ages.

The district-level People's Committees of the localities where the involved people previously registered their births shall be competent to change or correct civil status for persons of full 14 years or older, to re-determine ethnicity, re-determine gender, supplement civil status, adjust civil status for all people regardless of their ages.

• Your name as listed on birth certificate or immigration or citizenship documents.
• The full name you are applying to change to (if you are changing your name).
• Date and place of birth
• Marital status and details
• Places of residence for last three months
• Address for Correspondence

Clause 1, Article 36 of Decree 158/2005 / ND-CP of the Government dated 27.12.2005 register and manage civil provisions: "Change the name, middle name has been registered properly in Register of birth and the birth certificate, but individual requirements change as legitimate reasons as prescribed by the Civil Code. "

Accordingly, the provisions of Article 27 of the Civil Code, the individual may request the competent state agencies to recognize the change of name in the following cases: The user name is used to cause confusion, influence of family love, honor, rights and lawful interests of such persons; Change them from their children to their father's or mother's back.

Based on the above provisions, the change of name you must have a good reason, because the name is used to confuse, influence of family love, honor, rights and legitimate interests of you. If the request to change your name with the sole purpose is to switch to a name like that or more, then the request is considered to be no good reason and not the State agency competent to consent.

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