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Vietnam has decided to stop controlling citizens with permanent residence book
Vietnam has decided to stop controlling citizens with permanent residence book
7/11/17
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| The 'ho khau' |
The decades-old management method has come to signify Vietnam's red tape by tying one person’s life and career to a particular city/province.
The government has decided to scrap the archaic residence
books in favor of an online database whereby each citizen will be registered
with a personal identification code.
The resolution issued
earlier this week says that Vietnam
will stop managing its citizen registration through the residency book, which
attaches a person to a permanent address.
The book, ho
khau in
Vietnamese, has been in effect since the 1960s as an instrument of public
security, economic planning, and control of migration, similarly to China'shukou. In the post-war period, the book
was used as a means to ration food and allocate jobs under the then planned
economy.
But following economic
reforms since the late 1980s, Vietnam
has adoped a socialist oriented market economy and ho
khau has been kept to limit migration to booming cities, to no
avail.
A report issued last
year by the World Bank says 36 percent of the population in Ho
Chi Minh City and 18 percent in Hanoi lack ho khau.
“This study shows that
the ho khau system
has created inequality of opportunity for Vietnamese citizens,” Achim Fock, the
World Bank’s Acting Country Director for Vietnam, said in 2016.
The book has come
to signify Vietnam's
excessive red tape. It is
required in most administrative procedures including filing a birth
certificate, going to school, getting married, and it decides how easy it is
for one to find a job, buy a house or a vehicle.
A person who is
registered outside Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City will not be able to buy a
motorbike or a house under their own name in these cities, for example.
In most cities and provinces in Vietnam, people can only become a
public worker where they are registered as permanent resident.
And once a person moves, he or she will have to go through
many doors to remove their name from one residency book and add it to another.
It is not yet clear how the new personal code would work
and whether it will create any breakthroughs in paperwork.
But from now on, people will at least have one less
document to worry about.
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All comments [ 3 ]
This is an innovative change for Vietnamese people
the ho khau system has created inequality of opportunity for Vietnamese citizens and it must be canceled
Vietnam is creating favorable living conditions for its people, reaching international standards!
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