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Vietnamese immigration checkpoint in Ho Chi Minh City's cruise terminal. Immigration to Vietnam is the process by which people migrate to become Vietnamese residents. After the declaration of independence in 1945, immigration laws were modified to give the central government some control over immigrant workers arriving from nearby South Asian countries such as China (including Hong Kong ...
Visa free transit (up to 30 days) provided holding a valid U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand visa, and arriving from or departing to those countries. Visa-free access for 30 days to Jeju Island. Group tourists from the Vietnamese can travel visa-free through Yangyang International Airport until May 2024.
Vietnamese immigration to the United States post-Vietnam War (1975) profoundly influenced American cuisine. [81] Vietnamese Americans opened restaurants to preserve traditions and support families, introducing iconic dishes like phở, bánh mì, and gỏi cuốn, which have since become widely popular and embraced across the country. [81] [82]
The first lists were exchanged by the U.S and Vietnam in late 1979. The US list consisted of 4,000 persons, mostly former employees of the U.S. and of Vietnamese with relatives in the United States. The Vietnamese list included 21,000 persons, the majority of them ethnic Chinese.
President Ford took a stance that impacted the lives of many, both the refugees and the people of America. In President Ford's press statement on April 3, he discussed the urgency of aiding the people of Vietnam. He said, "We are seeing a great human tragedy as untold numbers of Vietnamese flee the North Vietnamese onslaught.
As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Harris County had 80,409 ethnic Vietnamese, making up 28.7% of the Asians in the county.As of the same year, 15% of the Asians in Fort Bend County were of Vietnamese origins, making them the third largest Asian ethnic group in the county.
The U.S. government has used the archive’s online search engine to find documents relating to prisoners-of-war during their time in Vietnam. [20] In 2001, the Vietnam Archives established the Vietnam Virtual Archive with the aim of putting many documents online to facilitate free and easy access through the Internet.
Toward the end of the Vietnam War in the 1970s, immigration from Vietnam to the United States increased considerably. Before 1975, only about 15,000 Vietnamese immigrants lived in the United States. By 1980, about 245,000 Vietnamese lived in the U.S., with about 91 percent of the population arriving in the previous five years. [1]