Vietnam 90 Day Business Visa

Hi everyone,'
What documents exactly besides a valid passport do I need to apply for this kind of visa please
-@gordonkitwe58

Hi again.

A recent post regarding business visas can be found, here.

You had posted before about acquiring a work permit. Not sure whether you are confusing the two (?).

After Aug15th, a 90 day tourist eVisa will be available (currently 30 days). Also, as a UK citizen you could then exercise your visa free privilege and enter for 45 days (currently 15 days visa free).

Feel free to ask additional questions.

Thanks Aidan.

As I understand it, the 90 day business visa for a teacher involves getting your company to guarantee you, then you supply your passport, degree and teaching certificate for the VISA. after these 90 days they will apply for a work permit and residence visa which are valid for two years. For this work permit, the university degree and teaching certificate need to be legalised and attested- atime-consuming and expensive procedure especially if your qualifications are not British.

Gordon

@gordonkitwe58

Take a browse through this thread. There's a whopping 149 posts in that thread, so you might trim it down a bit by searching each of the 4 pages of posts for the word "business" (and if that doesn't drain you, you could start at the first page of the thread searching for DN, and then DT1, DT2, DT3 and DT4 investor). 

There's a good post in that thread from member OceanBeach92107, just a little bit down on the first page, post #4, here, with a link to an external agency's visa-faq page.

ok Thank you Aidan

Thanks Aidan.
As I understand it, the 90 day business visa for a teacher involves getting your company to guarantee you, then you supply your passport, degree and teaching certificate for the VISA. after these 90 days they will apply for a work permit and residence visa which are valid for two years. For this work permit, the university degree and teaching certificate need to be legalised and attested- atime-consuming and expensive procedure especially if your qualifications are not British.
Gordon
-@gordonkitwe58

Thanks for clarifying that you are looking to come here and legally work (your previous thread didn't mention anything about that).

Here's the order of things:

In order to get an invitation/sponsorship letter (to use to apply for a business visa) there must first be government approval to hire you and that doesn't happen unless the prospective employer first submits an application and that doesn't happen until you have successfully submitted all relevant & notarized/apostilled documents with translations.

A company will not and cannot guarantee anything until you submit your dossier to them or to an embassy/consulate of Vietnam.

That is indeed a time consuming process requiring some out of pocket expenditures, especially if you need to travel in order to track down some missing document.

To answer your question from your previous thread, your prospective employer will provide you with a list of required documents, or you can contact the nearest embassy/consulate of Vietnam, as certain requirements may vary from one nation to another.

You can submit a dossier to the embassy/consulate and it will be entered into the foreign services database for use by any prospective employer back in Vietnam for up to 6 months from the earliest effective date of certification in the dossier.

So let's say you have a document notarized/apostilled on August 1st and the remaining documents are certified on September 1st and your dossier is submitted and approved shortly after that:

That entire dossier will expire 6 months from August 1st, unless you update certifications.

Once you are hired/arrive, the employer has 90 days to secure THEIR work permit for you.

Once you have that work permit, you can apply for a longer visa OR Temporary Resident Card for up to the length of your employment contract, but not beyond that.

If you quit your job or are fired, the employer can immediately pull sponsorship for your visa/TRC (making it invalid) and immigration will likely issue you a 7 day exit visa.

So any casual reader of this thread who considers leaving a qualifying job in Vietnam should FIRST find a new job with an employer who will apply for a work permit, because a work permit is not something you can take with you when you leave a job.

@OceanBeach92107

WoW! Thank you for all the clarification. Quite complicated, I have to say. I lived in Myanmar for 23 years and compared to this, their procedures were a walk in the park.