Requirements
Natural persons
Legal persons
Representatives
For all kind of investors
1.
Request for investment project implementation (original)
2.
Investment project proposal (original)
3.
Consular legalized copy of 2 latest years audited financial report
or commitment of financial assistance from parent company; or commitment of financial assistance from financial institution; or guarantee for financial capability of investor; or statement on financial capability of investor
4.
Certified translation of 2 latest years audited financial report
or commitment of financial assistance from parent company; or commitment of financial assistance from financial institution; or guarantee for financial capability of investor; or statement on financial capability of investor
5.
MOU or contract on office lease (original)
6.
Certificate of business registration (of lessor) (an authentic copy)
of the lessor which is a company having office leasing function by law.
7.
Certificate of land use right and property attached to the land (of lessor) (an authentic copy)
of the lessor to prove its land use right to the office's location.
8.
Passport or Vietnamese ID card of the applicant (original)
The applicant is the person submitting application for investment certificate.
For individual investor(s), supplement:
1.
Authenticated copy of passport or Vietnamese ID card of individual investor(s)
For corporate investor(s), supplement:
1.
Legalized copy of certificate of incorporation
Please note that it must be consular legalized within three months before the date of submission of the business registration application file.
2.
Certified translation of certificate of incorporation
3.
Power of attorney (to investor's representative) (original)
In case corporate investor wishes to appoint a person other than investor's legal representative to register project in Vietnam, an appoinment letter, decision or PoA is required.
4.
Authenticated copy of passport or Vietnamese ID card of investor's representative
to prove the legal personality of the authorized representative of the corporate investor.
For case that investors authorize other person to submit application file and receive result, supplement:
1.
Power of attorney to applicant (original)
In case where the applicant is neither legal representative of company to be established or authorized representative of investor, a power of attorney from investor to such applicant is required.
Time frame
The date to obtain result is indicated in the document receipt and result return slip.
Waiting time in queue:
Min. 5mn - Max. 15mn
Attention at counter:
Min. 10mn - Max. 20mn
Waiting time until next step:
Min. 5 days - Max. 10 days
Legal justification
1.
Law No. 67/2014/QH13 dated November 26 of the National Assembly on Investment
articles 22, 33.1, 36.1.a, 37.2, 38
2.
Decree No. 118/2015/ND-CP of the Government dated November 12, 2015 providing guidelines for implementation of a number of articles of Law on Investment
articles 24, 28, 29
3.
Circular No. 16/2015/TT-BKHDT of the Ministry of Planning and Investment dated November 18, 2015 issuing standard forms for conducting investment procedures and report on investment in Vietnam
articles I.1, I.3
4.
Decision No. 41/2012/QD-UBND Regulation on “one stop service” administrative procedure settlement on direct investment projects at Vinh Phuc Investment Promotion Agency
Article 9
Additional information
The files of an investment project shall be prepared in Vietnamese or both in Vietnamese and a commonly used foreign language. If there is any difference between the Vietnamese version and the foreign language version, the Vietnamese version shall be applied.
The investors can prepare the application file by themselves or they can require some local support (e.g. from law or consultancy firms).