Hotel foreigner law

Not a jungle law but it is the law. Whether the hotels choose to impose it or not is up to them.

I checked on this so-called law, having had some unpleasant circumstances with hotels with my then g/f, who is now my wife. In the Bac Lieu hotel they made us staying separate rooms because we weren't married. In an hotel in Saigon the receptionist called my g/f a prostitute.

Last year (now married) we stayed in Tam Ky in an hotel and no fewer tha 5 police officers came to the room and asked my wife to produce our marriage certificate, however when I came to the door to see what was going on they buggered off very quickly.

In fact, as far as I know, the so called law is a myth (I checked with a legal web site here in Vn a few months ago). There is apparently no such law, but hotels get extra rooms sold because of it and the police make pocket money out of it.

As far asI know its a load of old ballcocks. Like many things in Vietnam it is a cheaters charter.

I'm looking for references for this matter (of course if the police and hotels etc choose to apply a nonexistent law there isn't much you can do about it).
http://oivietnam.com/2015/10/is-marriag … abitation/http://vietnamnews.vn/talk-around-town/ … ation.html

This is pretty explicit: http://family.jrank.org/pages/1744/Viet … -2000.html "Article II addressed the emerging phenomenon of cohabitation. Under the 1986 statue, such living arrangements were illegal. However, the 2000 reforms stipulated that although cohabitation between unmarried couples was no longer considered a criminal act"...........

This too: http://moj.gov.vn/vbpq/en/Lists/Vn%20bn … emID=10076 So living together is NOT illegal in Vietnam, HOWEVER: "Men and women living together as husbands and wives without marriage registration shall not be recognized as husbands and wives."

Previous rants on same topic (searched forum for 'hotel')

https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=277882https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=512387

As far as I can see it's now folklore - even my wife didn't believe that there has been no such law for 14 years, when I told her.