Thai Hoang Mi, from Kon Tum Province in the Central Highlands, and her foreign partner recently welcomed a new baby. She reached out to Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper to inquire about the birth registration process and what steps to take if a birth certificate was not issued at the hospital and no witness was present.

Pham Van Chung, a lawyer from the Kon Tum Department of Justice, wrote this response:

The district-level People’s Committee is responsible for registering civil status for children with one foreign parent, in accordance with Clause 2, Article 7 of the 2014 Law on Civil Status. 

Therefore, if a child is born in Vietnam to a foreign father, the birth must be registered at the district-level People’s Committee in the district where the mother resides.

For registering the birth of a child born in Vietnam, where one parent is a Vietnamese citizen living in a border area and the other parent is a citizen of a neighboring country also living in a border area, the registration should be done at the local commune People’s Committee, provided the two communes are adjacent to each other.

Additionally, according to Clause 1, Article 16 of the 2014 Law on Civil Status, if Mi attempts to register her child’s birth without a birth document or witnesses, she must provide a birth guarantee and assume full legal responsibility for this guarantee.

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