After serving my prison sentence, am I eligible for conscription in Vietnam?

After serving my prison sentence, am I eligible for conscription in Vietnam?

I just finished serving my 3-year prison sentence, can I now join the military service? I have not registered for military service locally.

Reply:

Pursuant to Clause 1 and Clause 2, Article 13 of the 2015 Military Service Law, entities must not register for military service:

1. Citizens in any of the following cases must not register for military service:

a) 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;

b) Any citizen who is bearing education at communes or is being at reform school, compulsory re-education schools, compulsory detoxification centers;

c) Any citizen whose right to serve in People’s armed forces is revoked.

2. When the duration of measures specified in clause 1 of this Article expired, the citizen may register for military service.

Thus, you have just finished serving your prison sentence, so your criminal record has not been erased and you have not registered for military service, so you cannot register for military service.

After serving my prison sentence, am I eligible for conscription in Vietnam? (Image from the Internet)

Can I have my conscription postponed if I contribute a lot during the Covid epidemic in Vietnam?

For an individual who has made a major contribution to the Covid-19 epidemic, can he have his conscription postponed?

Reply:

Pursuant to Article 41 of the 2015 Military Service Law, supplemented by Point c, Clause 1, Article 49 of the 2019 Militia and Self-Defense Law, stipulates 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.

Thus, according to the above regulations in Vietnam, your case mentioned that you have made great contributions to the Covid-19 epidemic will not be eligible for postponement of conscription. Therefore, if you follow the regulations to comply properly when you receive a call, you still have to comply.

When is the 2nd round of pre-enlistment medical check-up in 2022 in Vietnam?

In case, if you have passed the first round of pre-enlistment medical check-up in 2022 and have completed round 1, when will the second round of pre-enlistment medical check-up be carried out? Hope to receive a response soon.

Reply:

In Clause 4, Article 40 of the 2015 Military Service Law, it is stipulated:

4. The pre-enlistment check-up shall be conducted from November 01^st to December 31^st of every year. Time of the second pre-enlistment check-up shall be according to the regulations in Article 33 of this Law and decided by the Prime Minister.

The law has no regulations on the process and time of the annual pre-enlistment check-up. But the pre-enlistment check-up for both round 1 and 2 will fall from November to the end of December every year. The locality will allocate time accordingly.

Best regards.