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@Doan Kim Nga B? S Da Nang

Hi Doan, I want to move to Vietnam around May 2026. I have watched many videos of Da Nang and think it would be perfect for me. I would like to stay connected and possible ask you more questions with regard to setting up a bank account, getting a drivers license and also understanding the Visa situation at the time of arrival. So maybe we can have some discussion if you are interested. thanks

@callaway4000

I am married to a wonderful Viet girl but when ever we turn up to a hotel they usually just request ID on whichever of us made the booking.聽

This area of life in bigger cities is much less 'traditional' than you might encounter in small country towns.

When you rent a hotel or airbnb what are the rules to being allowed to bring back a date to your place?

That will depend on the establishment. Hotels are free to set there own code-of-conduct rules.

is it legal?

It isn't illegal. Prior circulars forbidding the sharing of accommodations by a foreigner and a VN of the opposite sex have been rescinded (since 2010, ratified 2014).

is it in the description of the rental agreement? I know in Thailand they take the ID of the woman for security when they are visiting you? Do they have anything like this here in Vietnam?

Yes. As a foreigner you must show your passport at check-in. The owner/manager of the establishment will inform the local police precinct of your staying there. Let them take a photocopy/picture of your passport. It isn't necessary for you to leave your passport with them.

Though there is no legal requirement for the property owner/manager to report to the police the info of your guest, they may ask to see the VN citizen's national i.d. card.

Is there a "term" or wording I need to watch for when signing a rental contract? - @callaway4000

Sorry, but I'm not sure what you mean.

(many people may post in this thread that such and such a thing never happened to them, and I don't doubt the veracity of their claims, but this is a legal question and not an experiential hypothesis)

I really don't like being disagreeable, but It absolutely is the law that every single person that enters a hotel or motel room must provide identification.

It's definitely not up to the hotelier; It's a legal requirement enforced daily by the police.

It's possibly being done electronically these days in some locations, but traditionally the police always make their rounds of hotels and motels In the middle of the night shift.

(I think it's worth noting that hoteliers are requiring visitors to present an ID partially as protection for the person staying in that room, so there can be a follow-up if there's ever some sort of problem with assault or theft.)

The person on duty at the lodgings provides a completed Vietnam government Form NA17 listing all of the registered guests in that room.

Before I was married, if I wanted to bring a woman back to my room in my hotel (as happened in H脿 N峄檌, 膼脿 N岷祅g, H峄檌 An, Quy Nh啤n, Nha Trang, M农i N茅, V农ng T脿u, HCMC and Ph煤 Qu峄慶) the front desk clerk would ask for her ID and hold it while she was visiting me in my room.

It was that same exact pattern every single time I attempted to have a woman WHO WASN'T REGISTERED IN THE ROOM WITH ME聽 visit me there.

When I was actually traveling with a woman to whom I wasn't married, we were both asked for our IDs when we checked into the room and we were both registered as occupants of the room.

Now that I am married to a Vietnamese woman and travel with her often, The clerks at the various hotels ALWAYS follow the requirements of the law and ask for (nicely demand) official identification from both of us.

MONTHLY RENTALS MAY HAVE DIFFERENT REQUIREMENTS ACCORDING TO YOUR LEASE.

However it's becoming pretty common for the lease to specify ALL of the legal residents of the house or apartment and forbid anyone else staying overnight; So you can't even have a foreigner family visitor stay overnight in your house legally without the permission of the landlord and the registration of the visitor by the landlord with the police.

One factor that's going to affect the enforcement of the law or the contract by the landlord will be if the landlord is in residence or nearby as opposed to being absentee somewhere far away from the place you are renting.

In V农ng T脿u (In the apartment house owned by Ciambella's nephew) I was always required to have my guest show their ID to the landlord the first time that they came to visit me.

I'm pretty sure they made a photocopy.

After that first time, they never required that the ID be presented.

Our current house lease in 膼脿 N岷祅g is controlled by the brother of the landlord who lives in H峄檌 An.

In the required bilingual contract, it quite specifically states that we cannot have any overnight guests in our house, other than me and my wife and my two bonus daughters who are all registered with the police at this address and included in the original lease; NO EXCEPTIONS.

thanks for the information.. I will ask before I sign a lease. thanks

My partner and I live together in a house that only has her name on the lease. As such she had to take a copy of my visa to the police.

As of last week things have changed. No longer does she have to visit the police, she now logs in online and submits a form like hotels and rental agencies do.

She simply fills in my check in date, my check out date, visa details, and submits to the authorities.

My partner and I live together in a house that only has her name on the lease. As such she had to take a copy of my visa to the police.
As of last week things have changed. No longer does she have to visit the police, she now logs in online and submits a form like hotels and rental agencies do.

She simply fills in my check in date, my check out date, visa details, and submits to the authorities. - @Safepeter

Hopefully it continues to be that easy.

Is she the homeowner or are you renting it together?

Unfortunately, since the recent temporary registration crackdown, there have been multiple reports in 膼脿 N岷祅g of Vietnamese women who are homeowners--with foreigner boyfriends living in the same house--being forced to evict the boyfriend unless they are willing to go through the somewhat difficult and slightly expensive procedure required to register the house as a lodging business approved for renting to foreigners.

Or, the Vietnamese woman has rented the house and the landlord has allowed the boyfriend to live there, but the house isn't registered as a business. Suddenly the police are cracking down and insisting that the landlord turn the place into a business.

Unfortunately, landlords in such cases don't want anything to do with registering their property as a business, so the foreigners in such situations are being evicted.

hello @OceanBeach92107,

You have mentioned very important keywords within the same collab:聽 "non spouse", "non owner" and "for business",聽 you are right, but that made me realize how my personal case was before get married (3 years ago) :聽 I was received by my then-almost-father-in-law and he registered me as his guest at the police within the 3 days as the law commands.聽 Obviously I was not part of the family and that house is not for business. Now a days my already-father-in-law continues doing the register for me.聽 聽So I will double check the law to understand what happened in my case.

I still remember having to buy two rooms for me and my unmarried spouse in all hotels in Saigon, Nha Trang, and Dalat - Mui Ne wasn鈥檛 a problem, only once did the Tourist Police raid a hotel we were in on Bui Vien in Saigon maybe year 2000 or so, front desk called and she scurried into her room just in time.聽 聽Not sure what the penalties were back then, since tourism was just beginning but I wasn鈥檛 about to trst them.聽 About twn years ago, I read were two unmarried Foreigners were in the same room and front desk called the police, they were taken away, wonder what happened to them??聽 Guess the hotel was mad they wouldn鈥檛 pay for the extra room - what $15 a night back then??聽 聽So Nam Na as they say in Thailand.

@OceanBeach92107

We are renting together ... or really it's a family of 7 situation. Very interesting as the language can be a problem at times. My partner leased the house and the owner is aware of the situation. Ever since we moved in together the police have been informed of the arrangement, my visa is presented to them every 90 days, along with a small donation for their extra paperwork.