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ralphnhatrang wrote:

And which category covers a retired spouse sponsored to live with wife/husband? Are we expect to leave the country every six months?

Ralph that's the same thing that's been cut/pasted here at least 15 times on different threads. To answer your question. I'm afraid right now leaving the country every six months is the only legal option that is available to retired folks, in less of course you have a VEC (which I thought you had also). Then its a trip every three months to Immergration. You do have one thing working in you favor and that is your wife is a VN National which opens up the door a little wider for a PRC. My wife is although of VN descent聽 a US Citizen like myself which makes the PRC process a lot more difficult than it already is for us. There was one change in the new law that also might help and that is the approval authority. It no longer has to go all the way to Hanoi to get blessed. Our VEC's expire in 2018 and Immergration says that they wont be able to renew them again, so sometime around the first part to 2017 will start working on getting PRCs.

Budman1 wrote:

ralphnhatrang wrote:

And which category covers a retired spouse sponsored to live with wife/husband? Are we expect to leave the country every six months?

Ralph that's the same thing that's been cut/pasted here at least 15 times on different threads. To answer your question. I'm afraid right now leaving the country every six months is the only legal option that is available to retired folks, in less of course you have a VEC (which I thought you had also). Then its a trip every three months to Immergration. You do have one thing working in you favor and that is your wife is a VN National which opens up the door a little wider for a PRC. My wife is although of VN descent聽 a US Citizen like myself which makes the PRC process a lot more difficult than it already is for us. There was one change in the new law that also might help and that is the approval authority. It no longer has to go all the way to Hanoi to get blessed. Our VEC's expire in 2018 and Immergration says that they wont be able to renew them again, so sometime around the first part to 2017 will start working on getting PRCs.

There is now a " sticky " with all this info, " Visa's and Work Permits ", anyone with a VEC can apply for a 3 month TT Visa, and then a 3 yr TRC. Forget about a PRC, ( unless you have done something like saved the life of a VN VIP ).
My friend just received a new VEC last week, ( he's the 3rd one I've heard of this year ), so it's still good until 2020 at least, ( providing they don't change things again before then )..

Monihon wrote:

Why is so hard to get a PRC? Reading your thread it seems that anyone related to a native may get it by just living 3 years in Vietnam. My doubt is how can you demonstrate that you have been living here. Maybe immigration just knows if you left the country. But then it may mean that you can not go back to your own country even for a day. Also, don't know if it is ok to have been using a VEC or you need to have been using a TRC.

It didn't even used to be 3 yrs, I applied after only one year, then after 9 months , was told everything was just going along fine, the only thing left was for the Immigration officer to speak to my neighbours, and hear from them what a jolly nice chap I was,聽 but this never happened, ( speaking to my neighbours , that is ), and for the next 6 --12 months every time we inquired about it, it was the same reply, " it's in Hanoi hands ", when you get that reply, you can forget about it.
I only know of one other person who received a PR, he had been in VN many years, and seemed well " connected ".
The Govt knows everything about us when we live here, ( or think they do ), once I was actually registered at 3 different places at one time, but never reported to anyone after extending my VEC every 90 days, this went on for over 12 months, it was only because I was having WP drama's, that drew the attention to me, and the Immigration officer told me I " must " report , ( but not to which one??? ).
Before you couldn't get a TRC on a VEC, just like you can't work on a VEC, now you can apply for a TT Visa , then apply for TRC. This is one of the changes.

Monihon wrote:

It sounds as if someone were asking for a donation.聽

No, that's one thing this office doesn't do, they even refuse to take a few extra VND when I pay my fees.

kevin Phi wrote:

The school can apply working visa for him but he has to exit Vietnam first and then the school will make official letter that he come back vietnam to work for them. The tourist visa will be exchange to business visa from that time.

Once the school has his WP application lodged, ( after medical and criminal checks ), he has to apply for an LD visa, ( 2yrs ) to re enter VN.