Decree 219/2025/ND-CP of the Government, regulating foreign workers working in Vietnam, was issued and took effect from August 7, 2025.
The conference was held in Ha Long ward, Quang Ninh province with the participation of more than 200 officials and experts from the Department of Home Affairs of the Northern region and representatives of enterprises employing foreign workers.
In his opening speech, Mr. Vu Trong Binh - Director of the Department of Employment (Ministry of Home Affairs) - said: Decree 219/2025/ND-CP dated August 7, 2025 of the Government, regulating foreign workers working in Vietnam, is one of the tasks to specify Resolution 57 of the Politburo, assigned to the Government, the Ministry of Home Affairs and directly the Department of Employment to draft.
According to Mr. Binh, the work of managing foreign labor in Decree 219 has many innovations, with breakthroughs in procedures, order, and subjects. Before issuing the Decree, the Department of Employment held many conferences to deploy the revised Law on Employment.
According to the plan, in September 2025, the Department will conduct a trial operation of the National Job Exchange. This will be an important foundation for connecting labor market supply and demand nationwide.
For foreign workers, the Department of Employment is also building a database system to connect and integrate information from the immigration step to the issuance of labor licenses, serving management work.
At today's conference, we want to listen to opinions from businesses so that the policies of the Party and State can truly be effective in practice Mr. Vu Trong Binh emphasized.
Decree 219 was issued and took effect from August 7, 2025 in the context of urgent requirements for perfecting the legal framework for foreign labor management in Vietnam.
This conference aims to introduce new points and key points of the Decree; at the same time, dialogue and guide agencies and enterprises to effectively implement the decree.
Decree 219 stipulates the right for foreign workers to work in Vietnam according to the articles and clauses of the Labor Code.
The subjects of application are basically the same as Decree No. 152/2020/ND-CP of the Government and add 2 groups of subjects: Chairman of the Board of Directors, members of the Board of Directors of joint stock companies; owners and members of limited liability companies with a capital contribution value of less than 3 billion VND; People performing labor contracts with foreign diplomatic missions and foreign organizations in Vietnam.
The Decree also provides new regulations on requirements for job positions and authority of the Provincial People's Committee in granting work permits to foreigners, regulating the application of electronic transactions in granting, re-granting, renewing work permits and certificates of confirmation not subject to granting work permits.
At the conference, delegates discussed the following contents: Confirming labor experience; Reporting work of enterprises with foreign workers; Extension of labor licenses for foreigners, job codes, job positions, determining internal movement of foreign workers at enterprises.
According to the plan, after Quang Ninh, the Department of Employment (Ministry of Home Affairs) will continue to organize conferences in Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City; at the same time, coordinate with localities with many foreign workers to organize specialized training conferences.
Article 6 of Decree No. 219/2025/ND-CP of the Government regulating foreign workers working in Vietnam stipulates electronic transactions in the issuance, re-issuance, extension of labor licenses and certificates not subject to issuance of labor licenses.
Accordingly:
1. Employers submit applications for issuance, re-issuance, extension of labor licenses and certificates of confirmation not subject to issuance of labor licenses for foreign workers online at the National Public Service Portal.
2. The National Public Service Portal transfers documents according to the provisions of law on implementing administrative procedures under the one-stop, one-stop mechanism at the one-stop department and the National Public Service Portal to competent authorities that issue, reissue, renew labor licenses and certificates of confirmation not subject to issuance of labor licenses for foreign workers.
3. In case the foreign employer requests to issue a work permit with a request for a judicial record certificate authorized by a foreign employee online, the following procedures shall be followed:
a) Employers submit an application for a work permit with an application for a Judicial Record at the National Public Service Portal;
b) The National Public Service Portal transfers the dossier as prescribed in Point a of this Clause to the competent authority issuing the labor license and the competent police agency issuing the criminal record;
c) After receiving the document requesting the issuance of a Judicial Record Certificate, the competent police agency shall conduct a file appraisal, receive if the file is valid or request to supplement or edit information if the file has not complete information or return if the file is invalid. The result of handling administrative procedures is an electronic electronic criminal record form sent to the competent authority issuing the labor license;
d) The competent authority issuing the labor license appraises the dossier and returns the results of the labor license and the Judicial Record by electronic means to the employer.
The duration for handling procedures for issuing Judicial Records along with issuing a labor license is the total duration for issuing Judicial Records and issuing a labor license.
