1.The applicant shall submit the legalization application to its corresponding Embassy or Consular in Vietnam in accordance to the location of notarization and certification of the documents, conforming to consular region-division by the Chinese Embassy and Consulates in Vietnam. Applications submitted to the Consulate General must be certified by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Department of External Relations in Ho Chi Minh City beforehand. Failure to submit an application in accordance to the region-division may result in rejection of the application.

2. Document contents and submission procedures should be truthful, complete and lawful, and not contain things that violate China’s laws or harm national and public interests of China. If the documents applied for certification consist of two or more pages, they should be bound in a volume so as to avoid being easily removed and changed. They should be wax sealed or affixed with border seals and embossed seals for integrity assurance. The Consulate General will not certify applications with incomplete procedures, unsatisfactory specifications, illegal contents, erasures, modification, removal etc...

3. Affidavit or certificate of no marriage record used for marriage registration in China is valid within 6 months from the date of notarization; Notarized certificates of marital status, health, assets, income and no criminal record for children adoption in China are valid for 6 months from the date of notarization to the date of application for adoption registration (excluding the processing time by Chinese adoption center). The Consulate General shall not notarize expired papers and documents.

4. The Consulate General notarized papers and documents may not be removed, deleted or modified arbitrarily. Any problems caused by the applicant's own disassembling or altering of documents and relevant legal liabilities shall be borne by the applicant.