Do students in Vietnam have to participate military service?
Do students in Vietnam have to participate military service? - Mr. Danh (Dong Nai)
What are drafting requirements for military service in 2024 in Vietnam?
Pursuant to Article 4 of the Circular 148/2018/TT-BQP stipulating drafting requirements for military service in 2024 in Vietnam as follows:
1. Age:
- Citizens from the age of 18 to under 26.
- 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:
- Comply with provisions for political requirements for conscripting citizens into the Vietnamese People’s Army.
- 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:
- Draft citizens with health type 1, 2, 3 as specified by law.
- Drafting for crucial and classified agencies, units and positions in the Army; ceremonial battalion; professional National Guards and Military must ensure separate standards as regulated by the Ministry of National Defense.
- 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:
- Draft citizens who finished 8th 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 7th grade.
- 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.
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Do students in Vietnam have to participate military service?
Pursuant to Clause 1 Article 41 of the Law on Military Service in 2015 (amended by Clause 1.c Article 49 of the Law on Militia and Self-defense Forces in 2019) stipulating postponement and exemption from conscription as follows:
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 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.
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As regulations above, 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, can be entitled to postponement from conscription.
What are cases in which students in Vietnam are entitled to exemption from conscription?
Pursuant to Clause 2 Article 41 of the Law on Military Service in 2015 stipulating students in Vietnam are entitled to exemption from conscription in following cases:
- Any citizen who is a child of revolutionary martyrs or grade 1 wounded soldiers;
- Any citizen who is a brother of revolutionary martyrs;
- 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;
- Any citizen carrying out essential tasks who is not a soldier or a People’s Army;
- 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;
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