Are Vietnamese citizens who do meet the health requirements for performing military service required to undergo the pre-enlistment medical check-ups in the following year?
Are Vietnamese citizens who do meet the health requirements for performing military service required to undergo the pre-enlistment medical check-ups in the following year?
Under Article 41 of the Military Service Law 2015 (supplemented by point c, clause 1, Article 49 of the Self-Defense Force Law 2019:
Postponement and exemption from conscription
1. These following citizens shall have conscription postponed:
a) Any citizen whose health is unsatisfactory for active duty military service according to the conclusion of pre-enlistment check-up board;
b) Any citizen being the sole earner who directly takes care of his/her relative who lost working capacity or under working age; any citizen being the sole earner in a family suffering serious damage to humans and properties due to dangerous accidents, disasters, epidemics certified by People’s Committees of communes;
c) Any citizen who is a child of sick soldiers, people infected with dioxin and suffering labor capacity reduction from 61% to 80%;
d) Any citizen whose full brother/sister is a non-commissioned officer/active duty enlisted soldier or a non-commissioned officer/enlisted soldier performing service in the police;
dd) Any citizen who is subject to emigration or evacuation in 03 first years to extremely disadvantaged communes according to the socio-economic development project of the State that is decided by People’s Committees of provinces or higher levels;
e) Any citizen who is official or youth volunteer assigned to extremely disadvantage socio-economic area according to the law provisions;
g) Any citizen who is studying at compulsory education institutions or receiving training of university level at higher education institutions or training of college level at vocational education institutions for a training course of a level.
h) Standing militia.
2. These following citizens shall have conscription exempted:
a) Any citizen who is a child of revolutionary martyrs or grade 1 wounded soldiers;
b) Any citizen who is a brother of revolutionary martyrs;
c) Any citizen who is a child of grade 2 wounded soldiers; a child of sick soldiers suffering labor capacity reduction of 81% or above; a child of people infected with dioxin and suffering labor capacity reduction of 81% or above;
d) Any citizen carrying out essential tasks who is not a soldier or a police officer;
dd) Any citizen who is official or youth volunteer assigned to extremely disadvantaged socio-economic area according to the law provisions for 24 months or more;
3. Citizens eligible for postponement of conscription prescribed in clause 1 of this Article shall be called up for military service if the reason for postponement is no longer available.
Citizens eligible for postponement or exemption from conscription prescribed in clauses 1 and 2 of this Article who volunteer to join the army shall be consider selecting and calling up.
4. Lists of citizens eligible for postponement or exemption from conscription shall be posted publicly at head offices of People’s Committees of communes and/or relevant organizations/agencies for 20 days.
Thus, the time for military service lasts until the end of the age for conscription.
Vietnamese citizens who do meet the health requirements for performing military service are required to undergo the pre-enlistment medical check-ups in the following year until they reach the specified age or fall into the cases of postponement or exemption from conscription.
Are Vietnamese citizens who do meet the health requirements for performing military service required to undergo the pre-enlistment medical check-ups in the following year? (Image from the Internet)
What are the military service registration receiving agencies in Vietnam?
Under Article 15 of the Military Service Law 2015, the military service registration receiving agencies include:
- Military Commands of communes shall be responsible for the registration of residents in local area.
- Military Commands of agencies/organizations of shall be responsible for military service registration of citizens working or studying in such agencies/organizations then collect and report to Military Commands of districts in local areas.
If an establishment does not have Military Command, the heads or legal representatives of such agencies/organizations shall direct the citizen to register for military service in their local areas.
Who is not allowed to register for military service in Vietnam?
Under Article 13 of the Military Service Law 2015, the citizens in any of the following cases must not register for military service:
- Any citizen who is facing criminal prosecution; serving the prison sentence, non-custodial re-education, bearing surveillance or citizen who has carried out the prison sentence but without expunging of criminal record;
- Any citizen who is bearing education at communes or is being at reform school, compulsory re-education schools, compulsory detoxification centers;
- Any citizen whose right to serve in People’s armed forces is revoked.
However, upon the expiration of the above measures, citizens are allowed to register for military service.
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