Changes of foreign-invested company's Certificate of Business Registration in Vietnam

In 2017, procedure of changes foreign-invested company’s Certificate of Business Registration follows regulations of Law on Investment 2014 and Law on Enterprise 2014. Thereon, foreign-invested company was issued Certificate of Investment Registration which showed contents of business registration, investment registration before, now if it would like to change Certificate of Investment Registration, they have to make changes and reissue 2 forms: Certificate of Business Registration and Certificate of Investment Registration.

As for company was issued Certificate of Investment Registration from and before 2014 which has not have any changes, when changing business registration shall be separated into 02 certificates:

1. Certificate of Business Registration
2. Certificate of Investment Registration

As for company which had already changes after 01/01/2015 and been established after 01/07/2015 now has need in changing business registration or investment registration, please follow consolatory steps:

Changes of Certificate of Business Registration:

Contents of the Certificate of Business registration

1.  Name and identification number of the enterprise.
2.  Address of the enterprise’s headquarter.
3.  Full name, signature, permanent residence, nationality, number of the ID card, passport, or another ID paper of the legal representative if the enterprise is a limited liability company or joint-stock company; or general partners if the enterprise is a partnership; of the owner if the enterprise is a sole proprietorship; full names, permanent residences, nationalities, ID/passport numbers of members being individuals, or names, enterprise identification numbers and addresses of headquarters of members being organizations if the enterprise is a limited liability company.
4.  Charter capital.

• Therefore, of any mentioned information is changed, company has to conduct procedure of changing Certificate of Business Registration.
• With business lines not mentioned in Certificate of Business Registration, foreign-invested company has to notify changes in order to be issued ratification of changing business registration.
• Foreign-invested company changes business registration content without changing any content of investment registration, then it just manages procure of changing business registration at Department of business registration – the Service of Planning and Investment of the province/ city.
• The processing day: 03-05 workdays

Changes of Certificate of Investment registration:

Contents of Certificate of investment registration

1.  Code of the project.
2.  Name and address of the investor.
3.  Name of the project.
4.  Location and area of the project.
5.  Objectives and scale of the project.
6.  Capital investment in the project (including the investor’s capital and raised capital), capital contribution and capital raising schedule.
7.  Duration of the project.
8.  Project execution schedule: schedule of infrastructural development and inauguration (if any); schedule of achievements of primary targets and items; targets, duration, and operations of each stage (if the project is divided into multiple stages);
9.  Investment incentives, support, and conditions (if any).
10.  Conditions applied to the investor (if any).

• Therefore, of any mentioned information is changed, company has to conduct procedure of changing Certificate of Investment Registration.
• Foreign-invested company changes investment registration content without changing any content of business registration, then it just manages procure of changing business registration at Department of investment registration – the Service of Planning and Investment of the province/ city.
• The processing day: 15-20 workdays