RESIDENCE CARD
The foreigner who is investor, laborer, head of a branch/representative office of a foreign organization, spouses, child under 18 years old of these persons will be granted the residence card.
Law of Immigration, emigration, the residence of the foreigner in Vietnam, Circular No. 31/2015/TT-BCA regulating details of the procedure for granting the residence card.
Competent authority to grant the residence card is the Immigration Department or Immigration Division of police of provinces, cities belonging to Central Government where the organization, company inviting the foreigner to work locates or the individuals inviting or granting lives.
Time for processing documents is usually 05 working days.
The state fee is paid at the time handing document and not returned in case the profile is denied.
The residence card is valid from 01 to 05 years but must be shorter than the passport’s period at least 30 days. It is required the passport at the time handing document is at least 06 months of validation left. The passport of the person asking for residence card will be kept by the competent agency during the period processing and returned at the same time with the result. In case of the passport’s information changes, the person granted the residence card would need to process documents for granting a new residence card.
There are not any processes to extend the residence card as regulations of current law.
When the residence card expires, the person granted the residence card will need to hand in the old card together with documents to be granted the new ones.