What diseases are exempt from military service registration in Vietnam?

Firstly, how much money does it take to evade having to do military service?

According to Article 6 of the 2015 Military Service Law, the provisions on military service in regular armed forces are as follows:

1. Any male citizen at the call-up age shall perform the military service in regular armed force of People's Army.

2. Any female citizen at the age for military service in peacetime may perform military service in regular armed force if such citizen volunteers and on the demand of the armed force.

Thus, performing military service is the obligation of male citizens from 18 years old to 25 years old in Vietnam (except for citizens with college or university training who have been temporarily postponed for military service, then the age of conscription is Enlist until age 27).

Currently, there are no regulations allowing citizens to pay money to avoid performing military service. Therefore, if all conditions are met, citizens must perform military service in Vietnam.

This is the duty and right of a citizen, you should comply with the regulations in Vietnam. Failure to comply may result in fines or criminal prosecution depending on the case.

Please refer to: Is it possible to accept paying a fine to avoid military service examination?

What diseases are exempt from military service registration in Vietnam? (Image from the Internet)

Second, if I have any illness, am I exempt from military service registration in Vietnam?

According to Section III Appendix 1 of Joint Circular 16/2016/TTLT-BYT-BQP, diseases that are exempt from military service registration and not accepted into the permanent army include:

Third, about standards for participating in military service in Vietnam

In Article 4 of Circular 148/2018/TT-BQP regulating the selection and calling of citizens to enlist, issued by the Minister of National Defense, effective from November 20, 2018, there are regulations on military recruitment standards 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.

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