REGIMES APPLIED FOR FOREIGNER UNDER EXPULSION FROM VIETNAM
On October 2, 2013, the Government issued Decree No. 112/2013/ND-CP providing the sanction of expulsion and the measures of temporary custody and escorted transfer of violators according to administrative procedures, and management of foreign violators of the Vietnamese law pending the completion of expulsion procedures.
Accordingly, the remarkable content newly regulates the regimes of food, clothing, medical examination and treatment, meeting, physical exercise, sports… for expelled foreigners pending the completion of expulsion procedures. Concretely, expelled foreigners will be arranged to stay in a gender-based collective room, with a lying area of at least 3 m2 per person, a toilet, mats, blankets and mosquito nets; they are also allowed to do physical exercise, play sports and take part in healthy cultural and art performance activities within the premises of these facilities; they may meet their spouses in separate rooms within the accommodation facilities once a week, each lasting no more than 24 (twenty-four) hours if they properly observe internal regulations of the accommodation facilities…
Under-16 children of expelled foreigners pending the completion of expulsion procedures staying together with their parents at accommodation facilities shall be arranged lying areas in the same rooms with their parents at the accommodation facilities suitable to practical conditions and their age and gender. Their regimes of food, clothing, medical examination and treatment and burial expenses are the same as those for adults. On June 1 and Mid-Autumn Festival, they are entitled to a ration double that for ordinary days.
Expenses for food, lodging and medical examination and treatment at accommodation facilities and vehicles for exit must be paid by expelled foreigners. If an expelled foreigner is unable to pay such expenses, the Immigration Department or provincial-level Public Security Department (which has compiled a dossier for managing this person) shall request the diplomatic mission or consulate of the country of which such person is a citizen or the agency, organization or person that invited such person to Vietnam to pay such expenses.
This Decree takes effect on November 17, 2013.
