The French Embassy in Vietnam has introduced that it recognises the new Vietnamese passports and is issuing Schengen visas commonly for the holders of these passports, contrary to a go of the German authorities to not recognise them.
By a assertion published by the French Embassy on its official web-site on June 28, it is mentioned that for the moment and right up until more detect, the French authorities will carry on to recognise the new Vietnamese passport and difficulty visas commonly, SchengenVisaInfo.com stories.
“The German authorities a short while ago introduced that they do not recognise, at this stage, the new passport product issued by the Vietnamese authorities considering the fact that July 1, 2022, simply because particular identification details this kind of as the province of beginning no extended appears there. The German authorities, consequently, do not problem visas (C-, D-) on these new passports,” the statement reads.
However, the Embassy has warned Vietnamese citizens who obtain a French visa from the French Embassy in Hanoi and the French Consulate Basic in Ho Chi Minh Town with their new passport that they will not be equipped to journey to Germany with the exact same visa.
“Visa candidates holding a new Vietnamese passport should thus adapt their stay to exclude a keep or transit in Germany. Holders of formerly issued passports are not impacted,” the Embassy clarifies in its assertion.
This week, SchengenVisaInfo.com has claimed that Germany does not recognise the new blue Vietnamese passports owing to the lack of information on the spot of start on these passports and, as a result, does not challenge any kind of visas to the holders of this sort of passports.
The final decision has been taken by the German Ministry of the Interior and will continue to be powerful until eventually a reverse conclusion is taken.
“If your visa has now been issued, we strongly suggest you not to vacation to Germany. There is a danger that you will be rejected at the border. We will speak to you independently,” explains a FAQ revealed on the internet site the German Embassy in Vietnam.
The Vietnamese authorities started issuing the new passport on July 1, 2022, and an formal from the Immigration Office less than the Ministry of Community Safety has advised Tuoi Tre newspaper that Vietnam’s new passport follows restrictions and international tactics.
In accordance to the very same, Vietnamese authorities are doing the job with Germany’s diplomatic missions in order for the latter to recognise the new passports after obtaining a notice explaining that the new passport model lacks data on the position of beginning, earning it challenging to discover the passport holder, in unique when many holders have the identical surname.
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