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Vietnam residency and citizenship

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Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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Hello!

I am working on an application for a German national who wants to keep her German citizenship when naturalizing in Vietnam. I do these applications quite often but I have never done one for Vietnam, and frankly, the information this young lady gave me confuses me.

She is married to a Vietnamese man since 2008; the German government refused him a spousal visa and so she moved to Vietnam to live with her husband there. She can't get a work visa because she has no "expert" status (?), meaning she has no university degree and has not 5 years of work experience. Since she can't work, she can't pay taxes, and thus she can't get a residency card nor resident status for Vietnam. As she tells me, she always gets 6-months visas, leaves Vietnam for a short while, then returns. Due to the corrupt nature of the whole thing she basically lives in Vietnam since 2008, happily married to her Vietnamese husband who owns several properties and is well off financially.

Now here it gets to the point where she lost me. According to her, she can still become a Vietnamese citizen after having lived in Vietnam for 5 years, despite the fact that she has no resident status there. Does anybody know if that is really true?

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Brother Hesekiel

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ScottThuy   140

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She should be able to get citizenship based on her marriage to a VN citizen.

"Every one of us bears within himself the possibilty of all passions, all destinies of life in all its forms. Nothing human is foreign to us" - Edward G. Robinson.

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