How to get temporary residence card for foreigner in Vietnam?
Nov 27, 2019
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By Hoa Do
The Vietnam temporary residence card is one of the required documents for the foreigners who stay in a hotel or would like to extend their Vietnam visa. In order to apply for a
Vietnam temporary residence card, applicants need to prepare some documents and must meet several criteria.
1. Who can be granted a temporary residence card?
- Foreigners who are the members of the two members limited liability company or more
- Foreigners who are the owner the one member liability limited company (except authorized representatives)
- Foreigners who are the member of the board director of the stock company
- Foreign lawyers who are licensed to practice following Vietnam law by the Vietnam Ministry of Justice
- Foreigners who granted the working permit in all types of businesses or representatives offices of foreign companies
- Professionals, students, trainees who are in the national working or studying programs which are signed between the ministries were approved by the Government
- Relatives of the temporary resident cardholder include: parents, spouse, and children
Temporary residence card
2. Procedures for granting Vietnam temporary residence card
+ For granting a new temporary residence card:
- 01 completed form for the temporary residence card (N7A Form); declaration about foreigners applying for the temporary residence card (form N7B) with 02 photos(with 2x3 cm size)
- 01 copy of passport including visa page (bring the original passport for comparison)
- 01 copy or duplicate of legal documents such as business registration, investment certificate, seal registration certificate, working permit,...
- For the case of bringing the relatives, applicants must provide some documents including birth certificate, marriage certificate,...
+ For changing the temporary residence card:
- Documents for changing is the same as the new granted procedure and you need to submit the old temporary residence card
- Processing time: 05 working days
+ For losing residence card:
- If you lose your residence card, you have to inform to issuing office as soon as possible. In this case, you have to submit the required document like granting a new card and including a completed loss application form. The valid new residence card is equivalent to the old card.
- Processing time: 14 working days
3. The validity of a temporary residence card
- The temporary residence card take the validity from 1 year to 5 years
- The validity of the residence card is less than the validity of the passport
- For those who are holding the passport with validity under 1 year, don't be allowed granting a temporary residence card
3. The fee
The fee for a temporary residence card depends on the term of the card and it will be various at each time. Please contact us via email: [email protected] for details
4. Processing time
- 5 working days after receiving enough documents
For more details related to Vietnam visa, residence card,... Please contact us via email: [email protected]. We will assist you at our best!
Have a nice day!
Vietnam Visa Team,
