Working abroad is a specialized form of labor that requires strict control and management to ensure the rights and benefits of Vietnamese workers. Vietnamese nationals who work abroad under contracts with enterprises, non-business organizations, organizations or individuals making offshore investment must meet the following conditions:
- Having full civil act capacity.
- Willing to work abroad.
- Observing law and having good moral qualities.
- Having good health as provided for by Vietnamese law and required by the host country.
- Meeting requirements on foreign language skills, technical and professional qualifications and other conditions of the workers-receiving country.
- Having a certificate of possession of necessary knowledge.
- Being not banned from exiting Vietnam under Vietnamese law.
Workers willing to work abroad shall submit relevant dossiers to enterprises, non-business organizations, offshore-investing organizations or individuals that send them abroad, which include:
- An application for working abroad;
- A curriculum vitae certified by the People's Committee of the commune, ward or township where he/she resides or by the agency, organization or unit managing him/her with its comments on his/her sense of observing law and morality;
- A health certificate granted by a competent medical establishment;
- Diplomas or certificates of foreign language, expertise and job skills and a certificate of possession of necessary knowledge;
- Other papers as required by the worker-receiving party.
View more details at the Law on Vietnamese guest workers 2006 of Vietnam, effective from July 01, 2007.
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