New decree of Vietnam Government on granting and extending work permit for foreigners

On September 5, 2013, Nguyen Tan Dung Prime Ministry signed decree No.102/2013/ND-CP of the Vietnam Government on granting and extending work permit for foreigner. The decree takes effect on 1st November 2013. 

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Work permit speciment 

On November 1, 2013, it will instead of 2 decrees: decree No.34/2003/ND-CP dated on March 25, 2008 of the Government on recruitment and management labor foreigner in Vietnam; decree No. 46/2011/ND-CP dated June 17, 2011 of the Government on amending and supplementing the decree No.34/2008/ND-CP dated on March 25, 2008.

Decree No.102/2013/ND-CP of the Vietnam Government on detail instructions about conditions for granting or renewal or extending of Vietnam work permit and so on. In case foreigner are working in Vietnam without work permit will be excluded out of Vietnam.

However this decree has some problems compare with the previous normative conditions about new granting regulations. Following the state in this regulations for granting new work permit, foreigner must have the approval about using foreigner working in Vietnam of provincial Chairman People’s Committee in text. However, so far there is no circular instruction to apply this decree.

 A meeting guiding to apply new decree

In the afternoon on October 21^st 2013, the Deputy Chairman of Thua Thien Hue Province People’s Committee was hold the meeting to solve this problem. Inclusion, from now until to have a new circular guiding to apply this decree, co-operations must report to Chairman of provincial People’s Committee. After getting the approval of the Chairman of provincial People’s Committee, Labor and Social Welfare Service will grant work permit for foreigner.

The Chairman of provincial People’s Committee appoint the Labor and Social Welfare Service to be chairman accompany with Provincial  Police, Department of foreign affairs and Department of Planning and Investment to review and check for using foreigner labor in over the province. The Labor and Social Welfare Service must sent official dispatch to all co-operations, Industrial park Management, Economic Zone Management and request them to apply seriously the decree No.102/2013/ND-CP dated on September 5^th, 2013. 

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By team of Vietnam-evisa.org

source from site of Departmen of Justice-Vietnam