Working permit for foreign laborers working in Vietnam

    1. The foreign laborers working for enterprises, agencies and organizations in Vietnam must have work permits, except for the following case:

• The foreign laborers working in Vietnam for less than 03 (three) months; or to handle emergencies such as incidents, technical situations, complex technologies arise from that affect or threaten to affect production or business which Vietnamese experts and foreign experts in Vietnam are not able to resolve;

• Foreigners who are members of the Board of Management or member’s council (in the case of a limited liability company) established under Vietnamese Enterprise laws;

• Foreigners who are headed of representative offices or branches in Vietnam;

• Foreign lawyers to whom Ministry of Justice has granted a certificate to practice in accordance with the provision provided for by law.

        2.  The condition for granted the permit included:

• Being 18 years of age or older;

• Being physically fitted to the work requirements;

• It must have highly technical skills or highly professional qualifications (including: engineers and persons of a standard similar to or higher than engineers; artisans of traditional crafts ) and be very experienced and be senior professionally in the direction of production or business operation or in management work which Vietnamese employees are not yet able to perform;

• No criminal history or criminal record; not being prosecuted for criminal liability, are criminal penalties as prescribed by the law of Vietnam and foreign laws. Foreign employees engaged in private medical or pharmaceutical practices or directly carrying out disease examination and treatment in Vietnam must satisfy all conditions stipulated by the Vietnamese laws in relation to private medical or pharmaceutical practice;

• Having a work permit for foreign laborers working in Vietnam for full 03 (three) months, issued by the Vietnam competent state agency, except for cases that do not require a work permit in accordant with the provision of law.
  

      3. Application dossiers, which should be prepared in two copies, shall consist of the following:

• Written permit to work of the employer;

• Application;

• Form of criminal record issued by the competent authority from the foreign countries they lived. Stamps issued by the judicial authorities of the country where the employee resides. In case where the foreigners have resided in Vietnam for over six months, they should also submit the Form of criminal record issued by the Department of Justice in the locality where they are resided;

• CV of the foreign laborer’s resume, specified in Item c, Clause 1, Article 5 of Decree No. 105/2003/ND-CP including an attached photograph of the foreigner;

• Medical certificate issued in the foreign countries; if the laborer is residing in Vietnam, medical certificate must be granted under the regulations of the Health Ministry;

• Copies of certificates on professional skills such as: bachelor, master, doctor and certificates on qualifications granted under the existing law of the foreign countries. If foreigners are craftsmen of traditional crafts or are persons having experience, but no formal certificates, shall provide written documents provided by competent state agency of their country attesting to their qualifications and experience;

• 3 (three) color photos (size 3cm x 4 cms) with bare head, taken frontally, showing clearly the face and two ears and no glasses; taken within one year.
  

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(Intercode Team)