Work permit service in Ho Chi Minh City is a solution chosen by many enterprises to ensure foreign workers legally work in Vietnam while saving time and limiting risks during administrative procedures. With many years of experience advising domestic enterprises and foreign-invested enterprises, Viet An Law provides a comprehensive work permit service in Ho Chi Minh City for foreigners, assisting clients from reviewing conditions and preparing dossiers to representing them in working with competent authorities, contributing to helping enterprises quickly bring foreign workers to work in compliance with the law.
The service is suitable for most organizations and enterprises currently needing to recruit foreign workers to work in Ho Chi Minh City, including:
According to Article 151 of the Labor Code 2019, foreign workers are only allowed to work in Vietnam when fully meeting the conditions prescribed by law and having a work permit, except for cases exempt from a work permit according to regulations. Concurrently, Decree 219/2025/ND-CP details the conditions, dossiers, order, and procedures for granting, reissuing, and extending work permits.
Many enterprises believe that the work permit application in Ho Chi Minh City is quite simple. However, in reality, dossiers related to foreign workers always constitute one of the groups of procedures with a high rate of requests for amendment and supplementation.
Some common difficulties include:
Using a professional Vietnam work permit service helps enterprises:
According to Clause 1, Article 18 of Decree 219/2025/ND-CP, the dossier requesting a work permit includes:
The work permit dossier for enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City:
FDI enterprises often use many foreign experts, executive directors, and managers. Therefore, the work permit application dossier frequently gives rise to many specific situations.
Viet An Law assists with:
For multinational corporations with many foreign workers, Viet An Law also assists in building a work permit management process to limit the risks of expiration or violation of regulations on foreign labor.
Representative offices of foreign traders do not directly engage in business but still have a demand to use the Head of the representative office or foreign experts.
For this target group, the dossier usually needs to supplement:
Viet An Law will provide labor law consultancy for foreigners regarding appropriate plans so the dossier meets the exact regulations of the current law, while simultaneously assisting enterprises in handling cases of title change, passport change, or work location change.
Ho Chi Minh City currently has many industrial parks, export processing zones, and high-tech parks concentrating a large number of manufacturing, processing, electronics, mechanical, logistics, and information technology enterprises that have a demand to use foreign workers. The recruited subjects are primarily experts, managers, executive directors, or technical workers to perform management, technology transfer, personnel training, and production line operation activities.
For this group of enterprises, the work permit in HCMC application dossier often has distinct characteristics such as:
Viet An Law supports enterprises in industrial parks and export processing zones in reviewing the entire dossier, consulting on plans suitable for each job position, and representing them in executing procedures with competent authorities, helping enterprises maximally limit having their dossiers requested for amendment and supplementation.
One of the common reasons causing the processing time for a work permit dossier to be prolonged is that enterprises have not thoroughly checked the validity of the dossier before submission. Therefore, reviewing the dossier is an important step to ensure the documents fully meet the requirements according to the regulations of the Labor Code 2019 and Decree 219/2025/ND-CP.
Upon receiving the dossier, Viet An Law will support clients in checking contents such as:
A thorough review right from the beginning will help enterprises significantly reduce the risk of having dossiers returned, saving time and arising costs.
The majority of work permit dossiers utilize documents issued abroad such as:
According to the provisions in Article 5 of Decree 219/2025/ND-CP, documents issued by foreign agencies must be consular legalized, except for cases exempt according to international treaties or the principle of reciprocity. After consular legalization, the documents must be translated into Vietnamese and authenticated according to the provisions of the law.
Viet An Law assists clients in:
As a result, enterprises can limit the situation of dossiers being rejected because foreign documents do not meet legal requirements.
To help clients save time and be convenient during the procedure implementation, Viet An Law builds a professional work permit service in HCMC process comprising the following steps:
Specialists receive information about the enterprise, job position, nationality, professional qualifications, and experience of the foreign worker to evaluate the conditions for issuing a work permit.
Viet An Law guides enterprises to fully prepare dossiers according to regulations, and simultaneously checks the validity of each document to maximally limit having to amend and supplement.
For documents issued abroad, Viet An Law assists in executing the procedures for consular legalization, translation, and authentication according to regulations.
Within a time limit of 60 days but not less than 10 days up to the date the foreign worker is expected to start working, submit the dossier requesting a work permit to the Public Administration Service Center in the locality where the foreign worker is expected to work.
After completing the dossier, Viet An Law represents the client to submit the dossier, track the processing progress, and promptly explain or supplement if the state agency requests.
The local Public Administration Service Center transfers the dossier according to the provisions of the law on executing administrative procedures under the one-stop shop and interconnected one-stop shop mechanism at the one-stop division and the National Public Service Portal to the authority competent to issue work permits.
Within a time limit of 10 working days from the date of receiving a complete dossier requesting a work permit, the competent authority considers approving the demand and executing the issuance of a work permit for the foreign worker.
When the work permit is issued, Viet An Law checks the information on the permit, hands over the results to the client, and consults on subsequent procedures such as signing a labor contract, applying for a temporary residence card, or extending the permit when necessary.
The implementation time depends on the enterprise’s dossier preparation and the state agency’s processing time. According to Decree 219/2025/ND-CP, the dossier requesting a work permit is submitted within a time limit from 60 days to no less than 10 days prior to the date the worker is expected to start working. After receiving a full valid dossier, the competent authority resolves it within 10 working days.
In reality, the total implementation time may be longer if the enterprise needs consular legalization, translation, or dossier supplementation upon the request of the resolving agency.
Based on Article 2, Resolution 09/2022/NQ-HDND stipulating the collection rate for fees and charges for applying for a work permit in Ho Chi Minh City as follows:
The work permit cost in Vietnam is not fixed but depends on each specific case, such as:
During the process of executing procedures to issue a work permit for foreigners, many enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City encounter difficulties due to not clearly understanding legal regulations or lacking experience in preparing dossiers. This leads to the dossier being requested for amendment and supplementation multiple times, prolonging the processing time and affecting the labor utilization plan and production and business activities.
Some common errors that enterprises frequently encounter include:
Not all dossiers requested for supplementation are rejected for work permit issuance. In many cases, enterprises only need to complete or explain the correct content as requested by the competent authority for the dossier to still be continuously considered.
Viet An Law assists clients in:
Thanks to the experience in handling many practical dossiers, Viet An Law helps enterprises shorten the dossier completion time and enhance the possibility of being issued a work permit.
As a unit with many years of experience in the field of enterprise, investment, and foreign labor law consultancy, Viet An Law has accompanied thousands of domestic enterprises and foreign-invested enterprises in successfully executing work permit issuance procedures for foreigners.
When using the services of Viet An Law, clients will receive many benefits such as:
With a professional working process and a team of highly experienced lawyers and specialists, Viet An Law always aims at the goal of helping enterprises save time, optimize the cost of work permit applications, and ensure the use of foreign workers strictly complies with legal regulations.
The majority of foreign workers working for enterprises, branches, representative offices, or organizations in Ho Chi Minh City must have a work permit before working, except for cases exempt from applying for a work permit according to legal regulations.
Enterprises need to thoroughly review the job position, work location, degrees, experience, health certificate, criminal record certificate, and documents issued abroad. For dossiers with foreign documents, it is necessary to check the requirements for consular legalization, translation, and authentication before submission.
The dossier processing time depends on the status of the documents and the requirements of the competent authority. With a valid dossier, the procedure is usually resolved according to the time limit stipulated by law. Viet An Law supports prior review to limit dossiers being returned or requested for multiple supplementations.
In Ho Chi Minh City, work permits and confirmation papers not subject to work permit issuance have been deployed to return results in the form of digitally signed electronic documents. Enterprises need to store, use, and present electronic documents correctly according to regulations when performing related labor, visa, or temporary residence card procedures.
Yes. Enterprises can execute the procedure to extend a work permit if the foreign worker continues to work in a suitable position and meets the conditions according to regulations. Preparing the extension dossier should be done early to avoid interrupting the legal working period.
In case a foreign worker works in Ho Chi Minh City and incurs a work location in another province or city, the enterprise needs to recheck the content of the work permit, the work location, and the obligation to notify the competent authority to avoid violations during the process of using foreign labor.
Viet An Law supports enterprises in reviewing conditions, consulting on positions for experts, managers, executive directors, and technical workers; guiding the standardization of foreign documents; drafting dossiers; submitting dossiers; tracking results; and consulting on related procedures such as extending a work permit, reissuing a work permit, visas, and temporary residence cards.
With an office and a team of lawyers and legal specialists supporting clients in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet An Law accompanies enterprises throughout the entire process of using foreign labor. We do not just execute the work permit service in Ho Chi Minh City for foreigners, but we also consult on suitable legal plans for enterprises to limit risks, save time, and manage foreign workers strictly according to legal regulations.
