How Foreigners Could Apply for Residence Permits to Stay in Vietnam from 2022
In the current process
of industrialization and international integration, it is common for foreigners
to reside and work in Vietnam permanently or temporarily. In order to legally
reside in Vietnam, a foreigner must be eligible to be granted a permanent
residence card or a temporary residence card in accordance with Vietnam immigration
law.
Temporary residence card is a document issued by an immigration management agency or a competent agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to a foreigner who is allowed to reside in Vietnam for a definite time and has a valid temporary residence card visa replacement. Subjects granted temporary residence cards in Vietnam include: (i) Foreigners who are members of diplomatic missions, consular offices, representative offices of international organizations of the United Nations, inter-governmental organizations the government in Vietnam and their spouses, children under 18 years of age, and domestic servants who accompany them for their respective terms; (ii) Foreigners enter with visas with symbols LV1, LV2, LS, DT1, DT2, DT3, NN1, NN2, DH, PV1, LD1, LD2, TT. Depending on each person who is granted a temporary residence card in Vietnam, the duration of the temporary residence card is different.
Foreigners who are
eligible to be granted temporary
residence cards in Vietnam according to the two subjects
mentioned above must be sponsored and applied for residence card in Vietnam by
the agencies, organizations, individuals at the Immigration Department or the
Immigration Department Police Department of the province, centrally run city
where the agency or organization sponsoring is headquartered or where the
sponsored party resides.
It is very challenging
to apply for the permanent residence card in Vietnam. The permanent residence
is issued by the immigration authority to foreigners who are allowed to reside
indefinitely in Vietnam and is valid in lieu of a visa. Foreigners who are
considered for permanent residence in Vietnam include: (i) Foreigners who have
made meritorious, contributions to the cause of construction and defense of the
Vietnamese fatherland are awarded medals or titles by the Vietnamese government
state honor; (ii) Foreigners who are scientists, experts temporarily residing
in Vietnam; (iii) The foreigner is guaranteed by father, mother, wife, husband,
child who are Vietnamese citizens who are permanently residing in Vietnam; (iv)
Stateless people who have temporarily resided continuously in Vietnam from 2000
or earlier. At the same time, the following conditions must be met: (i) Having
a lawful place of residence and a stable income to ensure life in Vietnam; (ii)
If a scientist, expert is temporarily residing in Vietnam, must be requested by
a Minister, Deputy Minister of a ministerial-level agency, a government-attached
agency in charge of state management in that professional field, (iii) If
sponsored by father, mother, wife, husband, child who is a Vietnamese citizens
who are permanently residing in Vietnam, the duration of temporary residence in
Vietnam for a foreigner applying for permanent residence shall be determined as
follows: Foreigners who have temporarily resided in Vietnam for 03 consecutive
years or more are determined on the basis of the entry verification stamp, the
exit verification stamp issued at the border gate with a total temporary stay
in Vietnam from 03 years or more in the last 4 years from the date of applying
for permanent residence.
ANT Lawyers, as a law firm in Vietnam, always follow up the immigration cases to update clients on
regular basis.
Source
ANTLawyers:
Source: ANT Lawyers.vn
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