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Belgrove · Joined: 27 Sep 2011 Posts: 35 Location: Saigon

If you have a Work Permit then go to Nguyen Du, get the residence card papers (6000vnd, and in a very nice green folder which explains what you need to enclose) get them completed, sorted, stamped and signed.

Take them back to the office, get a ticket, wait 30 minutes, get them checked, get a piece of paper with the date to collect your brand new mysterious Temporary Residence Card then walk outside, cross the road, collect your bike, drive off and I'm sorry I can't make it any plainer.

Five days max!

What's confusing about that?

It works exactly the same in Hanoi.

If you're leaving that simple task in someone's hands then it's up to you. It just seems whenever I leave something to be done for me in someone else's hands it all goes pear shaped.

deadlift · Joined: 08 Jun 2010 Posts: 267

Belgrove · Joined: 27 Sep 2011 Posts: 35 Location: Saigon

Just noel wrote:

Mattingly · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 249

Obtaining the residence permit has been difficult and complicated for many.

Many people with work permits do not have residency cards.

4 wps for 4 part-time jobs?

How long would that take? How expensive would that be?

The entire WP issue is still a mess.

generalgiap · Joined: 03 Sep 2011 Posts: 95

I doubt that a school would get a work permit for a part-time teacher. But it depends on the school and if the teacher is interested in paying for part or all of the WP and RC. Therefore, if one has 4 part-time jobs, it's highly likely that one is unqualified and can't get the WP and works for cowboy outfits. May have also burned their bridges etc etc.

In addition, I have many friends in both HCMC and Hanoi who are married to Vietnamese national and have the 5 year visa, it is not connected to the WP. They have to go to the immigration dept every 3 months pay 10 usd, finished.

So, how many teachers have 4 part-time jobs? and/or have the quals etc to obtain a WP? How many foreigners who are married to Vietnamese have to leave every 90 days? Let's deal with reality and stop the distortions.

This post is not intended to offend anyone, only to provide readers with the real situation.

Belgrove · Joined: 27 Sep 2011 Posts: 35 Location: Saigon

400 000 for the WP
693 000 for the national advertising (new cost introduced in August 2011 Decree 46, article 4)
33 000 for local advertising
You should retain all your translations for re-use.
If your health check is out of date or your police check is out of date then they must be refreshed.
100 000 police check
900 000 new health check (recent price Cho Ray)

So assuming 4 jobs four WP's within six months we're talking 4 x 1126000 which gives us 4 504 000 which equates to $216 approx.

Looking at different times, some in some outside the six months, we have different permutations. But for the sake of clarity in this reply let's assume a new police check and a new health check each WP.
Our new figure would be 4 x 2126000 which gives us 8504000 which equates to approx $408.

If we have different numbers of jobs we would use a different primary multiplier so as an example if we had 14 jobs we would multiply everything by 14.

The good news is, you only need one valid Residence Card sponsored by a current employer.

I hope this helps.