After leaving Vietnam
Your Vietnamese social-insurance money is NOT forfeited at the airport, a departed foreigner can claim the one-time payout from abroad via a consular-legalised proxy, with a 10-day statutory payout once the file is complete, tax-free in Vietnam.
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Every line below is drawn from the verified country dossier. We never fabricate facts; candidate items are gated out of customer-facing copy.
Our published facts for this market are intentionally narrow, launch-honest rather than gap-filled. The items below are the verified facts we will work from.
Personal-record access wall: VssID (first-registration from abroad UNKNOWN, assume in-country)
Vietnam Social Insurance (VSS) holds a single national record keyed to the SI number. The narrow point: foreign refundable value only began accruing from January 2022, so for most pre-2022 foreign workers there is no meaningful claim, and the 1 July 2025 split changes the rules by first-joining date in ways most departed foreigners are not tracking.
Korea SSA only (in force 1 Jan 2024); no other in-force agreement found.
Primary sources: vss.gov.vn · baochinhphu.vn · Decree 143/2018
Everything above is drawn from the verified Vietnam dossier. The Vietnam country page sets out what we identify, what it costs and who it is for.
A departed foreigner can file from abroad, but onward international transfer of the payout is not a documented route in Vietnamese guidance, this is a thin market, and we say so.
A frozen record sits under the SI number and remains a genuine claim that can still be made; no claim-forfeiture/prescription deadline was found (UNKNOWN). Foreign refundable value only accrues from Jan 2022.
No. We identify the scheme and access route. We do not advise on transfer, consolidation, drawdown, or taxation, those decisions belong with a regulated adviser in your country of residence.
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