Viet Nam to collect fingerprints, facial images at border gates from 2025

This new policy is part of the Circular No. 59/2024/TT-BCA of the Ministry of Public Security regulating the control of entry and exit for Vietnamese citizens at border gates.

Information about the exit and entry process on the National Database on Exit and Entry has the value of replacing the verification stamp on citizens' exit and entry documents.

When on duty, the officer in charge will enter the information of the person leaving or entering the country into the immigration control system and supplement the necessary information. Next, check and compare the personal information in the immigration documents with the information in the National Database on the exit and entry of Vietnamese citizens.

Then, the functional officer stamps the verification stamp on the exit and entry documents of citizens exiting and entering the country through the port and land border gates that are not connected to the National Database on Exit and Entry.

"Do not stamp the verification stamp on the exit and entry documents of Vietnamese citizens exiting and entering the country through air border gates and land border gates connected to the National Database on Exit and Entry," Circular No. 59/2024 stated.

Since July 1, 2024 onwards, when citizens apply for an ID card, iris biometric information have been collected at the public security agency along with fingerprints and facial images.

The collection of iris biometric information is used as a basis for cross-checking and verifying the information of each individual while supporting in cases where a person's fingerprints cannot be collected (such as disabilities or deformed fingerprints)./.