In Vietnam, is it permissive to register permanent residence for a 5-member family at a 35m2house?
Pursuant to Clause 2 and 3, Article 20 of the Residence Law in 2020 stipulating conditions for permanent residence registration: 2. A citizen may register a lawful place of residence that is not under their ownership as their permanent residence with the permission of the household head and owner of such place in the following cases: a) The citizen is someone who comes to live with their spouse; a child coming to live with their parent(s); or a parent coming to live with their child; b) The citizen is an old person coming to live with their biological sibling or grandchild; or a person with very severe disability, a person with severe disability, a person who has lost work capacity, a person suffering from a mental illness or another disease that causes them to lose awareness or behavior control coming to live with their paternal grandparent(s), maternal grandparent(s), biological sibling, biological uncle, biological aunt, biological niece/nephew, biological grandchild or guardian; c) The citizen is a minor coming to live with their great-grandparent(s), paternal grandparent(s), maternal grandparent(s), biological sibling, biological uncle or biological aunt with the permission of their parent or guardian or if they have no parent; or a minor coming to live with their guardian. 3. Excluding the cases mentioned in Clause 2 herein, a citizen may register a lawful place of residence that they rent, borrow or stay in as their permanent residence on the following conditions: a) The owner of the lawful place of residence agrees to let the citizen register the location that they rent, borrow or stay in as their permanent residence and the household head agrees to let the citizen register the location as their permanent residence with the household; b) The condition for minimum floor area stipulated by the provincial People’s Council is satisfied, which shall be more than 08 m 2 of floor/person. Therefore, except regulations in Clause 2 above, your house area doesn't meet requirements to register permanent residence for a 5-member family. To have permanent residence registration, you shall meet requirements of agreement from the owner and prescribed minimum area of the house.