Should Landlords or Tenants Register for Temporary Residence?

Nhung Kieu09/01/2025

“Do landlords or tenants have to register for temporary residence?” is a concern not only for foreigners renting houses but also for landlords who have houses for rent. So according to the law, do foreign tenants or landlords have to register for temporary residence? Let’s join Alphahousing.vn to answer the above questions in the article below.

1. What is temporary registration?

Temporary residence registration is one of the residence registration procedures to notify residence, declare information, and adjust information about residence in a place for a certain period of time.

2. In what cases is temporary residence registration required?

• Foreigners must register for temporary residence when they come to live in Vietnam with legal accommodation, with full proof of documents.
• Permanent residence registration period is from 30 days or more, for work, study or other reasons.
• The maximum temporary residence period is 01 year and can be extended multiple times.

3. Should Landlords or Tenants Register for Temporary Residence?

”The Law on Residence stipulates that when renting a house, the landlord must declare and register temporary residence for the foreign tenant.”

Declaration of temporary residence for foreigners must be made within 12 hours from the time the foreigner arrives at the accommodation facility. In remote areas, the deadline will be 24 hours.

4. How Much Is The Fine If You Do Not Register For Temporary Residence?

For foreign tenants, the landlord is responsible for registering temporary residence. If the landlord does not declare temporary residence for foreign tenants, the fine is from 4 to 6 million VND, the average is 5 million VND.

5. What does the tenant need to provide to the landlord to declare temporary residence?

• Personal documents: latest passport, valid visa or temporary residence card
• Valid labor contract, legal documents of the workplace/place of study.

6. How to Register Temporary Residence for Tenants 2025

Temporary residence declaration for foreigners can be done in two ways: online declaration at the website of the Immigration Department of the provincial police where the accommodation facility is located or direct declaration at the police station of the commune, ward or town where the accommodation facility is located.

7. How to Register for Temporary Residence Online

Step 1: Temporary residents access the public service account via the following link: https://hanoi.xuatnhapcanh.gov.vn/

Step 2: Log in to your public service account. If you do not have a public service account, please register before logging in.

Step 3: Select “Function” – “Customer Management”

Step 4: Select “Add new”, then fill in the tenant information, it is required to fill in all the information in the boxes marked with *

Step 5: After filling in all the information of all tenants. Return to the “Function” section, select “Search for information”, then select “Temporarily residing guests” and click search to get all the information of the registered tenants.

8. Temporary residence registration fee?

Currently, online temporary residence declaration for foreigners is free.
However, in case the tenant needs to hide the red confirmation from the locality, the landlord needs to provide the following documents:

• Photocopy of citizen identification card, legal documents of apartment/house, business license
• Personal documents of the tenant as stated in item 2.
• Present to local officials in the ward to get a stamp. Time is about 1 week.

The above is specific and detailed information about the temporary residence registration process that both tenants and landlords need to know to answer the question of whether the landlord or the tenant must register for temporary residence.

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