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1- IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT
- Visa application and extension
Including: tourism, business, employment, student, investment, familly dependent, relatives visit…
- Visa run
- Exit visa
- Temporary resident card
- Visa exemption certificate

2. LABOR DEPARTMENT
- Work permit
- Work permit exemption certificate

3- TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT
- Driver’s license conversion
- Driver’s license application (test)
- International driver’s license
- Vehicle’s registration

4- JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
- Certified document translation
- Government document notarization and legalization
- Criminal record (police check)

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Three visas, three very different lives in Vietnam.In Vietnam, staying, working and living long-term are three separate ...
18/09/2026

Three visas, three very different lives in Vietnam.

In Vietnam, staying, working and living long-term are three separate permissions. The visa you hold decides which of them you have, and choosing the wrong route is one of the most common problems foreigners run into here.

🔹 The long visitor: e-visa
For travelling, exploring or testing life in Vietnam. Open to all nationalities, valid for up to 90 days, single or multiple entry, and applied for online. It is a permission to stay, not a permission to work.

🔹 The employee: work permit and temporary residence card
For anyone employed by a company in Vietnam. Your employer leads the application. The work permit is valid for up to two years and can be renewed once. The temporary residence card follows it, for up to two years, and lets you live here without repeated exits and visa renewals.

🔹 The sponsored specialist: UĐ1
New since 1 July 2026. For foreigners recognised as high-quality technology specialists and sponsored by a qualifying Vietnamese organisation. Valid for up to five years, with the UĐ2 covering a spouse and children under 18. It is a narrow route, and not one you can apply for on your own.

The most common wrong pick
Working for a local company while staying on a visa built for visiting. Working in Vietnam requires a work permit or an official exemption, whatever visa you entered on. Sorting this out properly from the start is far simpler than fixing it later.

Moving to Vietnam for work, or already here and unsure your paperwork matches your job? Comment TRC and we will walk you through the process in your inbox.

Photos by Ninh Tien Dat

Da Nang residents raised it through the city feedback portal: cigarette butts stubbed into the sand at My Khe, one of th...
17/09/2026

Da Nang residents raised it through the city feedback portal: cigarette butts stubbed into the sand at My Khe, one of the most photographed beaches in the country. The Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has now asked the board that manages Son Tra Peninsula and the city tourist beaches to act on it.

What is coming: more patrols, more warning signs and information panels, proper collection points for butts, and reminders over the beach loudspeaker system. Residents also asked for designated smoking areas or restrictions on smoking in public beach areas. The board says it is looking at that, within what current regulations allow.

The part worth knowing as a resident or a visitor: the fine for dropping cigarette butts in a public place is national, not a Da Nang rule. It has been in force since 2022 and applies everywhere in the country, beach or pavement. Amount and decree in the comments.

Bin, ashtray, pocket tin. That is the whole ask.

Follow IzyViet for the changes that actually affect life here.

The people who ride Vietnam well are not the ones who ride the most of it.Every year thousands of visitors arrive planni...
16/09/2026

The people who ride Vietnam well are not the ones who ride the most of it.

Every year thousands of visitors arrive planning to cross the country end to end, and the plan is nearly always the same: follow Highway 1 for around 1,700 kilometres and see Vietnam on the way past.

Highway 1 is doing a job, and that job is moving freight. Long sections of it are flat, straight and shared with trucks and buses, which is exactly what a national logistics artery should be. The trouble is that the landscapes people came for are not on it. They sit inland and to the sides: the limestone country of the far north, the northwest passes, the belt where the central coast climbs into the highlands, the plateau around Da Lat, the water roads of the delta.

So riders who live here do something that sounds like cheating and is in fact the local solution. They ride the good parts and let the railway carry the bike across the rest. Vietnam Railways moves motorbikes as freight along the north-south line. Finish a northern loop, send the bike ahead, take the passenger train down the coast, collect it and begin a completely different route. It is an ordinary domestic service, used constantly by Vietnamese families moving bikes between provinces.

Three things then shape the trip more than the bike does.

🚫 Expressways are closed to motorbikes. The routes signed CT are unavailable to you, and mapping apps will still offer them.

⏱️ Distance behaves differently here. A riding day is measured in hours on a shared highway, not in kilometres on a map.

🌦️ The country holds three weather systems at once, so the month decides the route rather than the other way round.

None of this needs a big bike, a tour group or a fixed itinerary. It needs the willingness to stop treating Vietnam as one long road.

Follow IzyViet for the practical side of living, working and travelling in Vietnam.

Photos by Dikye Ariani

You can read Vietnamese. You can use a dictionary. You can spend an evening on it. And the office will still hand it bac...
15/09/2026

You can read Vietnamese. You can use a dictionary. You can spend an evening on it. And the office will still hand it back.

A translation submitted with an official file in Vietnam has to be signed by a registered translator, someone qualified in that language, and the signature has to be certified. A translation you produced yourself cannot be certified at all, so there is no version of doing it alone that works.

There is a second thing worth knowing, because it decides who you should trust with this. Since July 2025, the certification confirms the translator's signature and nothing else. Nobody official reads the Vietnamese to check it is right. A misspelled name, a wrong date, or a job title that does not match your contract will pass certification and still get your file refused at the counter.

So the translator you choose is the whole job now.

We work with registered translators qualified in the language, we check the Vietnamese against your passport and your original documents, and we arrange the certification so you collect one complete file instead of running three errands.

Work permits, temporary residence cards, marriage and birth certificates, degrees, company paperwork.

Send us a photo of what you have and we will tell you exactly what it needs.

Comment SETUP or message the page.

Ho Chi Minh City has a metro. What it does not have is a way to reach it.The Department of Construction has sent a draft...
14/09/2026

Ho Chi Minh City has a metro. What it does not have is a way to reach it.

The Department of Construction has sent a draft decision to the municipal administration for a Demand-Responsive Transport service: minibuses with small passenger capacity, preferably electric, booked through an app. No timetable and no fixed route. The vehicle collects you from a published pick-up point and drops you at another, and the platform can combine trips or adjust the route as requests come in.

The proposed pilot covers Vietnam National University-HCMC, the downtown area, and the corridors along Metro Line 1. It would run for no more than three years, with a full review after the first year. Fares would be set in line with existing bus tickets, and the department has asked the city to consider subsidies during the trial.

The reason is in one figure. In 2025, public transport covered seven percent of all journeys made in this city. The network exists. Reaching it is the problem, and anyone living in a newer development off a narrow street already knows it.

This is a draft, not a launch. We will tell you when it moves.

Follow for how life in Vietnam is changing, explained properly.

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Here is a number worth sitting with. At several clothing stores in central Saigon, between 60 and 70% of customers are n...
13/09/2026

Here is a number worth sitting with. At several clothing stores in central Saigon, between 60 and 70% of customers are now foreign visitors. Two separate reports published this year, one by Tuoi Tre and one by researchers at RMIT Vietnam, arrived at the same range independently. 🧵

What those visitors do in the shops is the interesting part. Staff describe people walking in with TikTok videos and Instagram posts saved on their phones, asking for one specific piece by one specific Vietnamese label. A retail lecturer at RMIT who has worked in Vietnamese retail for nearly twenty years says this is genuinely new behaviour: not souvenir shopping, but trips built around finding local brands.

One detail in the Tuoi Tre report captures the whole shift. A 24-year-old French-Vietnamese woman explained that when she was small, her mother would have clothes made in Vietnam and shipped to France. Now she flies to Vietnam and buys them herself. The same country, the same garments, moving in the opposite direction, inside one family.

The background matters here. For decades Vietnam's role in global fashion ran on a specific kind of contract: the foreign brand supplied the fabric, the specifications and the drawings, and the factory cut and sewed. Vietnam built enormous manufacturing skill under that arrangement. Design was simply not part of the deal.

Shop owners date the current change to the last one or two years, and link it to Vietnamese designs turning up on K-pop performers and on celebrities in Thailand and China. They also make a point worth noting: the appeal is no longer the low price. It is the design, the quality and the experience of the shops themselves.

As one RMIT place-branding researcher put it, the story is now about being "designed in Vietnam" rather than only made here.
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Since 11 September, getting paperwork from your home country accepted in Vietnam takes one step instead of two.Here is h...
11/09/2026

Since 11 September, getting paperwork from your home country accepted in Vietnam takes one step instead of two.

Here is how it used to work. Say you needed a police check for your work permit. You got it from the police at home. Then you had to get it stamped at home, and then stamped again at a Vietnamese embassy or consulate. Two countries involved, two waits, two sets of fees, and for most people a courier in between.

Now your home country puts one stamp on the document and Vietnam accepts it. That stamp is called an apostille. All it does is prove the document is genuine. Which office issues it depends on your country, and in some countries it depends on your state or region.

Three countries are not part of this. Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic formally objected, so documents moving between Vietnam and those three still go the old route, through a Vietnamese embassy or consulate. If your paperwork comes from one of them, nothing in this post applies to you.

If you already did it the old way, you are fine. Documents legalised before 11 September stay valid, and no office in Vietnam is allowed to hand yours back and ask for an apostille instead. Paperwork that was already sitting at the embassy on 11 September gets finished under the old rules as well.

Two things did not change. The stamp proves your document is real and says nothing about what is written inside it, so a certified Vietnamese translation is still required exactly as before. And a small category of documents sits outside this entirely: anything issued by an embassy or consulate itself, and commercial or customs paperwork. Those keep the old route.

It works in reverse too. A Vietnamese document you need accepted abroad gets its stamp from the Consular Department in Hanoi or the Department of Foreign Affairs in Ho Chi Minh City.

Not sure which route your document takes? Comment WORK and we will tell you.

Vietnam has a new penalty framework for housing and real estate. Decree 339/2026/ND-CP took effect on 26 August 2026 and...
10/09/2026

Vietnam has a new penalty framework for housing and real estate. Decree 339/2026/ND-CP took effect on 26 August 2026 and replaced Decree 16/2022. Most of it is aimed at developers. Three parts of it land directly on foreign individuals who own a home here.

Eligibility. A foreign individual who owns housing without being an eligible owner, or without meeting the ownership conditions, is now a penalised case. The remedy goes further than the fine: the property returns to the seller and the money paid is refunded.

Payment. The purchase or lease-purchase of a home has to be paid through a credit institution in Vietnam. Settling it outside the banking system is now its own violation.

The ownership term. Foreign ownership here runs for a fixed period and can be extended. Filing that extension late is now penalised in its own right.

There is a fourth duty worth knowing even if you never sell. If you own a home in Vietnam and you rent it out, or you end that lease, the authorities have to be notified in writing.

This is regulatory information, not investment or legal advice. Confirm your own position before acting on it.

Follow IzyViet for the administrative changes that reach foreigners in Vietnam first.

If you have searched for Vietnam entry requirements in the last two months, you have probably been told that a health de...
09/09/2026

If you have searched for Vietnam entry requirements in the last two months, you have probably been told that a health declaration became mandatory for everyone on 1 July 2026. That reading circulated widely across travel and visa websites. The Ministry of Health has said it is not accurate.

Here is what happened. On 15 May 2026 the Government issued Decree 165/2026/ND-CP, detailing the Law on Disease Prevention. It came into force on 1 July. Article 22 provides for health declarations by people entering, leaving and transiting through Vietnam's border gates. That much is true and it is the part everyone quoted.

The part almost nobody quoted is the second clause. The Minister of Health decides who must declare and for how long, per infectious disease, according to the global disease situation and the risk of entry into Vietnam at each specific moment. In other words the decree creates a switch. It does not leave the switch permanently on.

The Department of Disease Prevention confirmed this publicly on 30 June, one day before the decree took effect, after receiving reports of the claim spreading through media and organisations. The Deputy Director stated plainly that the regulation should not be understood as applying compulsorily and routinely to all travellers at all times.

The second correction matters just as much. Many of those articles direct readers to tokhaiyte.vn. The Ministry stated it does not use that address for entry, exit or transit declarations. It is still building the system, and it will announce and open the system when declarations are required. So please do not hand your passport details to any site offering to file this for you.

If Vietnam does activate the requirement during an outbreak, the declaration can be submitted electronically or on paper using the bilingual form attached to the decree, within seven days before you cross the border.

For now, there is nothing to file. Sources in the first comment. 🔗

Photos by Hoàng Hiếu Nguyễn

✈️ The hardest part of a long-haul trip is rarely the flight.It is the last hour. Twenty hours in the air, landing after...
07/09/2026

✈️ The hardest part of a long-haul trip is rarely the flight.

It is the last hour. Twenty hours in the air, landing after dark in a country they have never visited, then immigration, the forms, the stamps, the questions.

You already know how all of it works. They do not.

IzyViet fast-track at Tan Son Nhat means somebody from our team is there when they land. We meet the flight, take them through the priority immigration lane, stay with them for the paperwork, and walk out into arrivals with them.

Visiting parents, first-time travellers, families with small children, anyone with a tight connection. Same service, same es**rt.

Departures too. On the way out, our team meets you at the terminal entrance and takes you through check-in, immigration and security to the gate.

📌 DM us with your flight details and we will confirm availability.

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