It is not required to change the driver’s license to a PET plastic card to integrate into VneID
10/12/2023
(binhthuan.gov.vn)
Currently, there is no regulation forcing people to change their driver’s
licenses to PET plastic cards to integrate into VNeID.
According to the
Police Department for Administrative Management of Social Order - C06, Ministry
of Public Security, changing the driver’s license to a PET card is unnecessary
and wastes social resources, instead the Vietnam Road Department will soon add
and clean license data for early integration.
According to the Director of the National
Population Data Center, among more than 55 million driver’s licenses issued
today, 31 million driver’s licenses have been fully integrated and displayed on
VNeID, many of which are old ones.
According to the Vietnam Road Department, there are
more than 20 million paper driver’s licenses issued from 1995 to July 2013 that
cannot integrate into VNeID, because these licenses only display people's names
and year of birth, without the date, month of birth so national resident data can
not be synchronized.
Therefore, the Vietnam Road Department encourages
people to change their driver’s licenses from paper to PET material; then the
new license will be updated according to the 12-digit ID card, suitable for
residential system data for easy integration.
Note that, changing driver’s license to a PET card
is encouraged, not mandatory as many people mistakenly think. Currently, there
is no document stipulating that people must change their paper driver's license
to a plastic card (PET).
In Article 81 of the draft Law on Road Traffic
Order and Safety, it is stated: "Indefinite driver’s licenses issued
before July 1, 2012 must be changed to new driver’s licenses according to the roadmap
set by the Government". However, this is a draft, the Law has not been approved
yet, so the regulation is not yet effective./.
Hữu Tri