Vietnam has updated its penalties for labor, social insurance and foreign-worker violations. The new rules come from Vietnam Decree No. 283/2026/ND-CP on Labor and Social Insurance Penalties, which will take effect on September 10, 2026 and replaced Decree No. 12/2022/ND-CP. Management should check that the company records match the people actually working at each site. …
A divorce granted abroad may end the marriage under the law of the country where it was decided. That alone does not update the Vietnamese civil-status record. A Vietnamese citizen may therefore hold a final foreign divorce while Vietnam still shows the earlier marriage as the latest recorded event. Problems often appear when the person …
Vietnam does not issue one universal document called a Vietnam divorce certificate. For a marriage registered in Vietnam, proof of divorce in Vietnam may be a legally effective court judgment, a decision recognizing consensual divorce, or a civil-status extract showing the recorded change. If a foreign authority later dissolved that marriage, Vietnam’s foreign-divorce recording procedure …
Vietnamese families increasingly have civil status records created in more than one country for instance, a child may be born overseas, a Vietnamese citizen may marry while working or living abroad, a divorce may be granted by a foreign court, a family may also need to deal in Vietnam with the death of a relative …
The limitation period for contract claims in Vietnam is not always one fixed deadline. It may depend on whether a claim is commercial or civil, whether it goes to court or arbitration, and whether specialized law applies. Different invoices, deliveries, breaches and remedies may have different starting dates. A demand letter or negotiation may continue …
A marriage certificate in Vietnam is an official document confirming that a marriage has been legally registered. In Vietnam, the registration creates an entry in the civil-status register and people can use marriage certificate for several different documents and procedures. Depending on the history of the marriage, a person may need to register a new …
A breach of contract demand letter in Vietnam should be an approved business position, not a summary of everything that went wrong. It must identify the correct parties and obligations, state material facts accurately, request a legally supportable outcome and preserve the company’s procedural and commercial options. It must also be distinguished from a contractual …
Obtaining a death certificate in Vietnam starts with identifying the correct legal procedure. The request may involve registering a death for the first time, obtaining an extract from an existing Vietnamese record, re-registering a qualifying older record, or recording or using a death registered abroad. The correct procedure depends on where and when the death …
Winning an arbitration does not by itself recover money in Vietnam. To enforce a foreign arbitral award in Vietnam, the award creditor normally needs a Vietnamese court to recognize the award first, before the civil judgment enforcement system can act against assets here. The commercial risk is a filing that succeeds on paper but arrives …
Birth re-registration in Vietnam is an exceptional route for a birth that was registered with a competent Vietnamese authority before January 1, 2016, but where both the civil-status register and the original civil-status document have been lost. Losing the paper birth certificate alone is not enough. The first task is to determine whether an official …
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