Requirements for selecting citizens to military service in Vietnam

To be specific:

According to Circular No. 148/2018/TT-BQP of the Ministry of National Defense of Vietnam, requirements on age are as follows:

- 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.

Political requirements:

- 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.

- 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.

Concurrently, Circular No. 148/2018/TT-BQP also stipulates health requirements as follows:

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

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.

View more details at Circular No. 148/2018/TT-BQP of the Ministry of National Defense of Vietnam, effective from November 20, 2018.

-Thao Uyen-

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