In addition, the number of judicial mandate requests has incrementally increased as a result of international integration. Before the promulgation of the Law on Mutual Judicial Assistance in 2007, there were just hundreds of judicial mandate requests every year. This figure has mounted to 4,000 and will surely continue to increase. In the meantime, proper investment has not yet been made to improve the quality of human resources and prepare the best conditions for judicial assistance work. For example, we all know that mutual judicial assistance agreements are indispensable if we want to obtain good results in mutual judicial assistance activities. Vietnam now has concluded 17 mutual judicial assistance agreements with other countries, most of them are former socialist countries, but the number of judicial mandate requests sent to these countries is not high. Meanwhile, no agreement has been signed with countries where the overseas Vietnamese communities are much larger such as the US, Canada, Japan and the Republic of Korea. By tradition, we wish to negotiate and conclude bilateral agreements with these countries but they do not want to do so. Instead, they all participate in multilateral mechanisms such as the Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters. Therefore, we have no other choice but to join multilateral legal instruments in order to have relations with many countries in this field. The Ministry of Justice is doing its best to complete all procedures to join the Hague Service Convention by the end of 2015. It is reported that the time required for the service of a document under the Hague Service Convention is just two months. Thanks to the contact network established among central bodies of signatory states, the service of documents can be carried out quickly and effectively.