1. Individuals have the right to request the competent state agency to recognize the change of surname in the following cases:

a) Change the last name for a biological child from the biological father’s last name to the mother’s surname or vice versa;

b) Change the surname of the adopted child from the surname of the biological father or biological mother to the surname of the adoptive father or the surname of the adoptive mother at the request of the adoptive father or mother;< /span>

c) When an adopted child ceases to be adopted and this person or his/her biological father or mother requests to have his/her surname restored to that person’s surname according to his/her biological father’s or biological mother’s surname;< /span>

d) Change the child’s last name at the request of the biological father, biological mother or child when determining the parent for the child;

đ) Change the last name of the lost person who found his or her bloodline;

e) Change the surname according to the wife’s surname, the husband’s surname in marriage and family relationships involving foreign elements to comply with the law of the country where the wife, foreigner husband is a citizen or get the last name back before change;

g) Change child’s last name when parent changes last name;

h) Other cases prescribed by civil status law.

Article 28. Right to change name

1. Individuals have the right to request competent state agencies to recognize the change of name in the following cases:

a) At the request of the person with the name that the use of that name causes confusion, affects the sentiment family, to the honor, legitimate rights and interests of that person;

b) At the request of the adoptive father, adoptive mother about changing the name for the adopted child or when the adopted child cease to be an adopted child and this person or his/her biological father or mother requests to have the name given by his/her biological father or mother;

c) At the request of the biological father, mother or child when determining the parent for a child;< /span>

d) Change the name of the lost person who found his bloodline;

đ) Change the name of husband and wife in marriage and family relations with foreign elements to match in accordance with the law of the country of which the foreign spouse is a citizen or has changed his/her name before the change;

e) Change the name of the gender reassigned person, the transgender person;

g) Other cases prescribed by civil status law.

1. The change of last name, middle name or first name for a person under 18 years old as prescribed in Clause 1, Article 26 of the Law on Civil Status must be consented by such person’s parents and clearly stated in the declaration; For persons aged full 9 years or older, the consent of that person is also required.

The commune-level People’s Committee of the place where civil status has been registered before or the place of residence of an individual is competent to handle civil status changes or corrections for persons under 14 years of age; civil status supplement for Vietnamese citizens residing in the country.

Article 46. Competence to register change, correction, supplementation of civil status, ethnicity re-determination

3. The People’s Committee of the district where the civil status has been registered before or the place of residence of the individual is competent to handle the change or correction of civil status for Vietnamese citizens aged full 14 years or older residing in the country. ; redefine the nation.