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KruChris wrote:

How many Europoeans are here as teachers and as tourists?

A global recession is unavoidable. With so many businesses barely breaking even, we can expect countless bankruptccies in Vietnam.

What's your plan, if you are a European?

Well I am a UK citizen so not technically a European & not a teacher, so nothing changes for me & actually might get better.

Personally most of the English Teachers certainly  I meet round here are not European anyway, they are UK, OZ, NZ, CDN, USA, SA Indian, Nigerian, Philippine. They must be hurting with all the schools closed for sure.

As a foot note & no offence meant ......I have met some English teachers here from some European countries one in particular from Romania who I could not understand a word she said & her FB posts in English!! forget it.

& as a foot note to my foot note, I see the classifieds on here are full of adverts now from teachers offering private sessions group & individual........strange that really when all the official schools are closed down.

goodolboy wrote:

As a foot note & no offence meant ......I have met some English teachers here from some European countries one in particular from Romania who I could not understand a word she said & her FB posts in English!! forget it.

It could be worse, imagine some poor unsuspecting sod learning "English" from a Scot! 

Brick23 wrote:

goodolboy wrote:

As a foot note & no offence meant ......I have met some English teachers here from some European countries one in particular from Romania who I could not understand a word she said & her FB posts in English!! forget it.

It could be worse, imagine some poor unsuspecting sod learning "English" from a Scot! 

F off

Simmer down there Jocko, I'm a Belfast lad, I get to mock my fellow Celts 

To actually answer the OP, yeah the uncertanties WRT any kind of travel and visa arrangements are irritating. I'm due to fly back to the UK end of April but if it looks like I'll get incarcerated with a bunch of sneezers for a month on arrival, I'll maybe try a land border run instead. Then again, maybe the VN authorities will start caging all incomers too?

No point planning too far in advance right now though, alas.

Brick23 wrote:

Simmer down there Jocko, I'm a Belfast lad, I get to mock my fellow Celts 

To actually answer the OP, yeah the uncertanties WRT any kind of travel and visa arrangements are irritating. I'm due to fly back to the UK end of April but if it looks like I'll get incarcerated with a bunch of sneezers for a month on arrival, I'll maybe try a land border run instead. Then again, maybe the VN authorities will start caging all incomers too?

No point planning too far in advance right now though, alas.

Hypothetical question.........need to do a visa run but cant because of travel restrictions say or self quarantine what then?

goodolboy wrote:

Hypothetical question.........need to do a visa run but cant because of travel restrictions say or self quarantine what then?

Good question, I've been wondering myself. There must be a lot of folk in VN who might end up in this situation, we'll have to see what happens.

Brick23 wrote:

goodolboy wrote:

Hypothetical question.........need to do a visa run but cant because of travel restrictions say or self quarantine what then?

Good question, I've been wondering myself. There must be a lot of folk in VN who might end up in this situation, we'll have to see what happens.

Should find out soon enough. I have a border run coming up.

When I did a border run Sunday I had to fill out a self assessment health questionnaire on the way back into Vietnam.  That was it.  Didn’t even take my temperature at Cambodia or Vietnam sides of the border.  This was at Moc Bai.

SteinNebraska wrote:

When I did a border run Sunday I had to fill out a self assessment health questionnaire on the way back into Vietnam.  That was it.  Didn’t even take my temperature at Cambodia or Vietnam sides of the border.  This was at Moc Bai.

Thanks for that, sounds encouraging.

KruChris wrote:

How many Europoeans are here as teachers and as tourists?

A global recession is unavoidable. With so many businesses barely breaking even, we can expect countless bankruptccies in Vietnam.

What's your plan, if you are a European?

Here is the most recent official government update I just received this hour through my Zalo account.

(Following the link I've pasted an imperfect Google Translate app translation:)



Visa exemption for citizens of 8 European countries from 12:00 AM on 12 March
16:25 11/03/2020

Vietnam will suspend unilateral visa exemption for citizens of countries: Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Spain, applied from 00:00 March 12 / 2020.

In the face of increasingly complicated, rapid and widespread spreads of the COVID-19 epidemic worldwide, in order to strengthen prevention and control, prevent the spread of disease in the community, the Government of Vietnam has decided to temporarily Unilateral visa exemption policy for citizens of Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Spain is applied from 00:00 March 12 / 2020.

Vietnam has announced this decision to the aforementioned countries and will continue to work closely with countries, international organizations and partners in disease prevention and control.

Previously, from 0h on 3/3, Vietnam has temporarily suspended visa exemption for Italians and temporarily unilaterally exempted visas for Korean nationals starting from 0:00 on 29/2/2020. These are temporary measures to prevent and prevent outbreaks, spread epidemics in the community, ensure safety and health for people.

HY