Leaving Vietnam for a while, with the permit filed before the ticket
You already live here. The question is not how to get in, but what is filed before you go out, and when. Asia Relocation Vietnam files this before the trip, not during it.
This page is for people who are already settled in Vietnam. There is a dedicated document for travelling while you are resident, and it is filed with the Immigration Department using your passport, your temporary or permanent resident card and your travel itinerary. Nothing about it is dramatic — which is exactly why it gets left until a fortnight before departure.
What makes it awkward is timing. Asia Relocation Vietnam puts the filing and the travel dates on one calendar before either is fixed, so neither is decided without the other. Where a card renewal is running in parallel, that goes on the same calendar.
Asia Relocation Vietnam holds all of it in one place. We establish what your residency status and your travel plans actually require, sequence this against anything else in progress, lodge it with the Immigration Department, and prepare it ahead of the trip rather than in the week you are due to fly.
What this filing covers, and what the other pages in this silo carry
Asia Relocation Vietnam reads the journey and the status behind it together, rather than one at a time.
Carried on our side
- The reading of your case. Your residency status and your travel plans, examined together, so you know what the trip actually requires.
- The sequencing. This filing placed against renewals, cancellations and anything else that wants your passport in the same weeks.
- The documents. Card, passport and itinerary assembled and checked before they are handed over.
- The lodging. Submitted to the Immigration Department and followed up, with you told where it stands.
Quoted per traveller, in writing, before any document changes hands.
Held on other pages
- The card this rests on. Applications and renewals sit at temporary resident card.
- The longer status. Holders of a permanent resident card travel on the same document, decided on its own page.
- Leaving for good. A departure that ends the posting runs through residence card cancellation.
- The labour calendar. Permit dates that collide with travel are read at Vietnam work permit.
- Visitors coming the other way. A short stay that commits to nothing is covered by the DL temporary visitor visa.
One coordinator holds all of these, so the dates are read against each other.
Five journeys a resident of Vietnam has to make anyway
The document is the same. What differs is how much warning you had.
The regional commuter
Out and back several times a quarter for work. The worst case for improvisation, and the one where we read the diary a quarter ahead rather than a week.
Home leave with the whole family
Several card holders, one set of flights, a school holiday that will not move. Handled as one coordinated group rather than person by person.
A trip nobody planned
Illness, a funeral, something at home that cannot wait. We say honestly what can be compressed and what cannot, rather than guessing.
Travel while a renewal is running
The card is being reissued and a flight is already booked. This is the sequencing problem this page exists for.
A conference, a training week, a head-office summons
Business travel by someone who lives here, where the employer books the flights and nobody thinks about the resident's own paperwork.
Work out the paperwork before the flights, not around them
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Tell us the trip before it is booked
Dates, destinations and who is going. Residency status and travel plans are read together, and this is when advice is still cheap.
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Look at everything else in progress
A renewal, a change of employer, a new passport. We look at what else wants your documents in those weeks before fixing the order of work.
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Assemble the file
Card, passport and itinerary, checked against each other before anything is handed in, so nothing is discovered missing once the file has been handed in.
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Lodge it and track it
Submitted to the Immigration Department in Vietnam and followed up, with the progress reported rather than assumed.
Four residents whose travel dates and paperwork land in the same weeks
Executives covering several countries
Based in Vietnam, working across the region, booked by an assistant who has never seen a resident card. They need the filing to be somebody's job.
Families going home for the holidays
Parents and children who each hold a card, travelling on one booking, with a departure date set by a school term rather than by an administration.
Mobility teams with people on the ground
HR managers who approve the travel and only afterwards ask what the resident's own file requires.
Long-settled residents with family abroad
People whose lives are here and whose parents are not. Their journeys are the ones that arrive without notice, and the ones worth preparing for in advance.
Prepared in Vietnam, on the same calendar as the journey
The only filing in this silo that Asia Relocation Vietnam dates from a departure rather than from an expiry.
The file is assembled here, by consultants who live in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi and Da Nang, from your passport, your temporary or permanent resident card and your travel itinerary. Asia Relocation Vietnam asks for the travel dates in the same conversation, because the filing and the journey are read on one calendar here rather than by two people who never compare diaries.
Because Asia Relocation Vietnam holds the rest of your immigration file in-house, we can see what else is running before we commit to an order of work. A resident with one coordinator has one sequence to approve; a resident with three providers is the one left reconciling them.
What residents ask before they travel out of Vietnam
Do I need one for the trip I have booked?
What goes into the application?
When should it be filed?
My passport is with an authority right now. Can I still plan a trip?
I travel constantly for work. Where does that leave me?
Something urgent has come up at home. What can be done quickly?
Does the family need this as well?
What does it cost?
If this journey is the last one
When you are not coming back
The filing that closes the file properly, scheduled against the move-out rather than after the flight.
Residence card cancellation →The whole chain, in the order it runs
What Asia Relocation Vietnam handles across the silo, from a first approval to a last departure.
Visa & immigration in Vietnam →Send us the travel dates and the card you hold
We read what the trip requires, sequence it against anything else in progress, file it ahead of the departure, and quote in writing.
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