Procedure for returning passports
1. Execution order:
- Step 1: All required dossiers must be submitted to Dossier Receive and Return Office at Dong Nai Department of Foreign Affairs.
+ After all dossier requirements are met, the receiver of dossiers will arrange an appointment time for the applicant.
+ If the applicant does not have required dossiers or his/ her dossier requirements are not met, the receiver of dossiers must show him/ her how to supplement missing dossiers.
- Step 2: When the appointment time comes, the applicant must go to Dossier Receive and Return Office to get the decision paper of the competent authorities. If the applicant’s dossiers fail to meet requirements, the authorities will write a reply letter to him or her.
Time to receive and return dossiers: (From Monday to Friday)
- Morning: from 7:00 to 11:00
- Afternoon: from 13:00 to 16:00
2. Procedure: dossiers must be directly submitted to Dossier Receive and Return Office at the Department of Foreign Affairs (07 Vo Thi Sau street, Quyet Thang ward, Bien Hoa, Dong Nai.)
3. Contents and sets of dossiers:
a) Contents of the dossier:
The decision paper of Dong Nai People’s Committee or of the Director of Department of Foreign Affairs, which allows individuals or organizations to go abroad and an attached receipt
b) Sets of dossiers: 01
4. Handling time: during business days after all required dossiers are submitted
5. Passport issuance agencies:
a) Competent authority: Dong Nai People’s Committee
b) Competent authorities or any authorized person: Dong Nai Department of Foreign Affairs.
c) Passport issuance agency: Dong Nai Department of Foreign Affairs
d) Coordination agency: no
6. Applicant: individuals and organizations
7. Forms and declaration: no
8. Costs: no
9. Results of passport issuance: PASSPORT
10. Requirements for passport issuance: no
12. Legal foundation for passport issuance:
- The government’s Decree no. 136/2007/ND-CP of August 17, 2007 on Vietnamese citizens’ entry and exit.
- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs‘ Circular no. 02/2008/TT-BNG of February 4, 2008 on issuance, renewal, amendment and supplement for diplomatic passports and official passports at home and abroad according to the government’s Decision no. 136/2007/ND-CP of August 17, 2007 on Vietnamese citizens’ entry and exit;
- Dong Nai People’s Committee’s Decision no. 48/2006/QD-UBND of May 31, 2006 on introducing regulations on the management of Dong Nai province’s external affairs.
- Dong Nai People’s Committee’s Decision no. 94/2006/QD-UBND of December 29, 2006 on introducing regulations on the organization and operation of the Department of Foreign Affairs of Dong Nai province.