Vietnam · Talent & extraordinary ability
Talent and skilled professional visas (UĐ1 / UĐ2)
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Last verified July 2026Unconfirmed
Reported as launched. A multiple-entry visa for skilled professionals took effect 15 August 2025, and UĐ1/UĐ2 five-year visas are reported to have taken effect 1 July 2026, with UĐ1 aimed at high-skilled technology talent. Details are thin and drawn from secondary sources, so confidence is set to low pending primary verification.
These are the real Vietnamese reforms, not the golden visa that keeps getting announced. They are aimed at technology and scientific talent, not at capital, and they are too new to have a track record.
Qualifying routes
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UĐ1 — high-skilled technology talent
Reported as a 5-year visa for high-skilled technology professionals. Criteria not yet verified.
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UĐ2 — skilled professionals
Reported as a 5-year visa. Criteria not yet verified.
The facts
- Total landed cost
- Unknown. The fee schedule has not been verified.
- Route type
- By qualification
- Timeline
- 1–3 months (Unverified)
- Physical presence
- Unknown
- Family
- Reported to permit accompanying family, though this is unverified
- Permanent residency
- Vietnamese permanent residence is available only on narrow grounds and is rarely granted to ordinary foreign professionals.
- Citizenship
- 5 years of permanent residence, plus a language requirement. Renunciation of your prior citizenship is generally required.
- Language test
- Vietnamese required
- Dual citizenship
- Not permitted. You would have to renounce.
- Requirements
- Not verified. Confirm with the Vietnam Immigration Department before acting.
What can go wrong
- This is very new. The UĐ1/UĐ2 categories are reported as effective only from 1 July 2026, two weeks before this file's verification date. No practitioner track record exists yet.
- Details including eligibility criteria, fees and family rights are not confirmed by a primary Vietnamese government source.
- Vietnam taxes residents on worldwide income at up to 35%.
- Do not confuse these with the golden visa, which does not exist.