Vietnam Police certificate.

[RocnLyn 0]

Hi, so we've made it through all the hoops and even had our final interview canceled in manila due to weather and then rescheduled and told 11 months is close enough to 12 months in another country and that my wife would need to get her police certificate from the police department of where we lived in vietnam. we stayed around vung tau area so now the wife has flown back to vietnam to get this certificate and she was told she needed her residency record stamps, our first apartment we fought with the landlord every week about our registration and other things but he just wouldn't get it done, so we ate the deposit and moved out after living there for a few months and moved to a place that would handle those kinds of things like they should be handled. I know now after research the first landlord just didn't want to pay the higher income tax for renting to foreigners. Immigration did show up once and said they would be going after him and we moved out shortly after that. Issue is now what do we do? the wife is currently in vung tau vietnam and stressing out with everyone she talks to. I did research a bit but most people have lost paper work not shitty landlords. any help would be much appreciated i'm going crazy not being able to be there to help figure this out.

[carton025 38]

Hi,

Maybe I just don't get it. Anyone, with the proper documentation, should be able to go to a local police station in Vietnam, or if not in the country, be able to go to the Vietnamese embassy and request a police clearance certificate. Whether or not this person lived in the police department district. After all, the US still maintains a good relationship with Vietnam.

Best wishes and regards!,

Sid

[ScottThuy 140]

Hi,

Maybe I just don't get it. Anyone, with the proper documentation, should be able to go to a local police station in Vietnam, or if not in the country, be able to go to the Vietnamese embassy and request a police clearance certificate. Whether or not this person lived in the police department district. After all, the US still maintains a good relationship with Vietnam.

Best wishes and regards!,

Sid

Clearly you don't understand the police certificate process in VN. The Embassy in Hanoi would have NOTHING to do with obtaining the police cert.

To the OP..

If the landlord did not have her in the housebook, or didnt report her to the police as living there.. it could make the police cert more difficult than normal. She needs to go to the Provincial Justice Department (So Tu Phap) where their permanent residence is registered. if she wasn't registered.. it may take some time... Dont be surprised if they say a month or more.

[RocnLyn 0]

Clearly you don't understand the police certificate process in VN. The Embassy in Hanoi would have NOTHING to do with obtaining the police cert.

To the OP..

If the landlord did not have her in the housebook, or didnt report her to the police as living there.. it could make the police cert more difficult than normal. She needs to go to the Provincial Justice Department (So Tu Phap) where their permanent residence is registered. if she wasn't registered.. it may take some time... Dont be surprised if they say a month or more.

Thank you Scott for clearing that up, all I can do on my end is research for her, and all our friends who are still in vietnam are out of town on holiday. i'll start researching (so tu phap) to get an idea of where she needs to go. thanks again, and anymore info is greatly appreciated.

[ScottThuy 140]

Thank you Scott for clearing that up, all I can do on my end is research for her, and all our friends who are still in vietnam are out of town on holiday. i'll start researching (so tu phap) to get an idea of where she needs to go. thanks again, and anymore info is greatly appreciated.

a there are a few members that had to get police certs from the same place she does..with luck one will sign in...

[AnhDoiEm 9]

dont forget the coffee money in the envelop that could speed up her process

[dreamwarrior 0]

She needs to go to So Tu Phap to obtain the police certificate. So Tu Phap will do all the legwork verifying her information at previous residences. That's how it was for us however, every province is different. Some will require you to go to each police department first.

[ScottThuy 140]

She needs to go to So Tu Phap to obtain the police certificate. So Tu Phap will do all the legwork verifying her information at previous residences. That's how it was for us however, every province is different. Some will require you to go to each police department first.

Thats if you are in country, it can often be done from another country via the VN consulate/embassy there... when in VN the only places that one can get an acceptable PC is at a So Tu Phap.

[jmhull 2]

Thats if you are in country, it can often be done from another country via the VN consulate/embassy there... when in VN the only places that one can get an acceptable PC is at a So Tu Phap.

Hi, as far as I know, Vietnamese embassies and consulates abroad do not issue police certificates. The task of issuing police records is delegated to the Ministry of Justice only, i.e. (i) if you are Vietnamese or foreign nationals currently living in Vietnam, you can apply for a certificate to be issued at the Department of Justice (So Tu phap, which is a provincial/city branch of Ministry of Justice) of the city or province that you are a resident of; and, (ii) if you are a foreign national who used to reside in Vietnam but NO LONGER is (so you're not in Vietnam at the moment of application), then you'll have to apply at the National Center for Police Record, which is based in Ha Noi (inside the office of the Ministry of Justice); you can do that by either authorizing someone you know in Vietnam to apply for the paper on behalf of you, or by traveling to Ha Noi yourself. They make it very clear that, if you are a foreign national, who currently does not reside in VN anymore, then you cannot apply at the Department of Justice - must go to the National Center for Police Record in Ha Noi. I went through that experience when helping out a friend, who is a German citizen, apply for his Vietnam police certificate.

To OP, if your wife is not a Vietnamese citizen, she can go to Vung Tau Department of Justice to double check with them whether she can apply there, or has to go to Ha Noi. If she is Vietnamese, then it is simple, she can surely apply in Vung Tau. In my friend's case, he authorized me (by a authorization contract) to carry out the whole application process; the office asked for a certification from the residential police of the place where he stayed before, in order to process the paper. In your case, you said your wife moved out to another place after not being able to register residency at the first place, is that correct? If so, then you can ask for certification from the police of the second place (in case she had registered with them during her stay there).

Edited December 19, 2012 by jmhull