Requirements
Natural persons
Legal persons
For all types of investors
1.
Authenticated copy of Passport or Vietnamese ID card of new legal representative (original + 4 simple copies)
1.
Passport or Vietnamese ID card of the investor (original + 4 simple copies)
1.
Passport or Vietnamese ID card of the legal representative (original + 4 simple copies)
Time frame
In reality, the investors can be submit documents for authentication and receive the authenticated copies of the documents within the same day.
Waiting time in queue:
Min. 5mn - Max. 10mn
Attention at counter:
Min. 5mn - Max. 10mn
Waiting time until next step:
Max. 1 day
Legal justification
1.
Decree 79/2007/NĐ-CP of Government dated May 18, 2007 on the issue of copies from master registers, authentication copies from originals, authentication of signatures
articles 5.2, 13, 14, 15
2.
Decree 04/2012/NĐ-CP of Goverment dated January 20, 2012 on amending and supplementing article 5 of the Government’s Decree No. 79/2007/ND-CP dated May 18, 2007 on the issue of copies from master registers, authentication copies from originals, authentication of signatures
Article 1
3.
Circular 03/2008/TT-BTP of the Ministry of Justice dated August 03, 2008 on guiding the implementation of a number of article of the Governments Decree No. 79/2007/ND-CP dated May 18, 2007, on the issue of copies master registers, authentication of copies from originals, authentication of signatures
Article 1
Additional information
Foreign passports can be authenticated by any district people’s committee with no need for consular legalization.
Investors may request to authenticate as many copies of document as they wish. Please note that the district People's Committee will keep one authenticated copy of each document for filing.
Vietnamese investors in the company may replace passport with Vietnamese ID card in application file for Investment Certificate. We assume here that the investor need to authenticate 3 passports (or Vietnamese ID card) for legal representative of the company to be created, for individual investor, and for legal representative of corporate investor.