THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIR
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No: 10/2006/TT-BCA
Hanoi, September 18, 2006
 
CIRCULAR
GUIDING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE REGULATION ON ISSUANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF APEC BUSINESS TRAVEL CARDS UNDER THE PRIME MINISTER'S DECISION NO. 45/2006/QD-TTG OF FEBRUARY 28, 2006
Pursuant the Prime Minister's Decision No. 45/2006/QD-TTg of February 28, 2006, promulgating the Regulation on issuance and management of APEC business travel cards (hereinafter referred to as the Regulation for short); after consulting and reaching agreement with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Trade, the Ministry of Public Security hereby guides the implementation of the Regulation as follows:
I. ON GENERAL PROVISIONS
1. For persons defined in Article 6 of the Regulation (hereinafter collectively referred to as Vietnamese business people):
a/ APEC business travel cards (hereinafter abbreviated to ABTCs) issued to Vietnamese business people shall be valid for three years. When the passport of a business person remains valid for less than three years, the valid term of the to be-issued ABTC shall be equivalent to that of the passport.
b/ Vietnamese business people holding valid ABTCs shall be allowed to enter APEC member countries and territories participating in the ABTC Scheme named in their ABTCs; and upon entry or exit, they must produce their valid passports according to regulations of such participating countries or territories.
c/ ABTCs that are reported by business people as having been lost shall be revoked and shall not be restored (even when they are found). If such business people wish to continue using ABTCs, they shall have to fill in procedures of application for new cards.
2. For business people of participating countries and territories (hereinafter referred to as foreign business people): If having valid passports and holding valid ABTCs which list Vietnam as a country of destination, they shall be permitted to enter and exit Vietnam though its international border gates.
II. ON THE ISSUANCE OF ABTCs TO VIETNAMESE BUSINESS PEOPLE
1. Vietnamese business people shall submit dossiers of application for ABTCs to the Immigration Department of the Ministry of Public Security, each comprising:
a/ An application for the ABTC (made according to a form set by the Immigration Department), certified by the head of the enterprise or the agency directly managing the business person.
b/ Four 3 x 4 cm photographs of white background showing the photographed person looking straight and bareheaded (one photograph stuck on the application and affixed with the seal of the enterprise or the agency directly managing the businessperson and three enclosed photographs).
c/ A written permission for use of the ABTC from a competent person, who is:
- The Prime Minister, for business people appointed or directly managed by the Prime Minister;
- The head of an agency of ministerial or equivalent level, for business people appointed by heads of agencies of ministerial or equivalent level and business people working in enterprises set up under decisions of, or directly managed by, agencies of ministerial or equivalent level.
- The president of a provincial-level People's Committee, for business people appointed by presidents of provincial-level People's Committees and business people working in enterprises set up under decisions of, or directly managed by, presidents of provincial-level People's Committees.
2. When submitting dossiers of application for ABTCs, business people must produce their valid passports. Where other cadres or employees are assigned to submit dossiers and receive ABTCs on behalf of business people, they must produce papers of introduction issued by their agencies or enterprises, their people identity cards and the passports of the ABTC applicants.
3. Order of, and time limit for, consideration of the issuance of ABTCs:
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