Can male citizens wearing earrings perform military service in Vietnam?

Can male citizens wearing earrings perform military service in Vietnam?

In Article 4 of Circular 148/2018/TT-BQP stipulating drafting requirements as follows:

1. Age:

a) Citizens from the age of 18 to under 26.

b) Graduate male citizen who enters university or college and postpones conscription for a training course of a level will be drafted until he turns 28.

2. Political requirements:

a) Comply with Joint Circular No. 50/2016/TTLT-BQP-BCA dated April 15, 2016 of the Minister of National Defense – the Minister of Public Security on provisions for political requirements for conscripting citizens into the Vietnamese People’s Army.

b) Drafting for crucial and classified agencies, units and positions in the Army; ceremonial battalion; professional National Guards and Military shall comply with regulations and law of the Ministry of National Defense.

3. Health requirements:

a) Draft citizens with health type 1, 2, 3 as specified in Joint Circular No. 16/2016/TTLT-BYT-BQP dated June 30, 2016 of the Minister of Health – the Minister of National Defense on provisions for pre-enlistment check-up.

b) Drafting for agencies, units and positions specified in Point b Clause 2 of this Article must ensure separate standards as regulated by the Ministry of National Defense.

c) Do not conscript citizens with health type 3 and eye disorders (1.5 dioptre myopia or higher, hypermetropia at all degrees); drug addicts, those contracted with HIV, AIDS.

4. Cultural requirements:

a) Draft citizens who finished 8^th grade or higher in descending order. In areas where the drafting quota cannot be guaranteed due to hardship, request the competent authorities to consider and decide to draft citizens who finished 7^th grade.

b) Communes in remote and isolated areas, in areas with economic - social hardships according to regulations and law; ethnic minorities below 10,000 people shall draft no more than 25% of the citizens who finished primary education and the citizens who finished lower secondary education are drafted to fill the rest.

Currently, there is no standard for military recruitment that mentions that male citizens with earrings do not participate in military service in Vietnam.

So, if you have an earring in your left ear, you can still join the military service if you meet the recruitment criteria (age, politics, health and culture) that the law prescribes in Vietnam.

What month of the year is initial registration for military service in Vietnam?

Article 16 of the Law on Military Service 2015 stipulates that initial registration for military service is as follows:

1. In every January, Presidents of People’s Committees of communes, heads or legal representatives of agencies/organizations report to Military Commands of districts the List of male citizens who turn 17 years old and male citizens subject to military service that have not registered for military service.

2. In every April, Military Commander of districts shall send the call-up papers to citizens specified in clause 1 of this Article to perform initial registration for military service.

3. Citizens shall perform initial registration for military service at military service registration receiving agencies specified in Article 15 of this Law.

Therefore, in April every year, the Military Commander of districts will issue call-up papers to citizens who turn 17 years old and male citizens subject to military service that have not registered for military service to perform initial registration for military service in Vietnam.

What are cases of postponement and exemption from military service in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Clauses 1 and 2, Article 41 of the 2015 Law on Military Service, supplemented by Point c, Clause 1, Article 49 of the 2019 Law on Militia and Self-Defense, stipulating postponement and exemption from conscription as follows:

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 People’s Army;

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 People’s Army;

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;

The above are cases where conscription is temporarily postponed and exempted by law in Vietnam.

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