Vietnam: Regulations on electronic identification and authentication

BLawyers Vietnam

10th October 2022

The Government issued Decree No. 59/2022/ND-CP dated 05 September 2022 providing for electronic identification and authentication with the following notable contents.

The competent Police shall process the registration request for an electronic identity (“eID”) account upon receipt of all valid request documents prescribed the following duration:
- For any Vietnamese citizen who is holding a chip-based ID card: The maximum duration of issuing for level-1 eID accounts and level-2 eID accounts shall be 01 and 03 working days, respectively.
- For any Vietnamese citizen who does not hold a chip-based ID card: The maximum duration of issuing for eID accounts shall be 07 working days.
In addition, any eID holder that is a Vietnamese authority, organization, or citizen shall be exempted from paying costs incurred from registering and using eID accounts created by the electronic identification and authentication system. Any organization or individual using electronic authentication services shall pay fees to electronic authentication service providers in accordance with the law.

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