Hong Kong (VNA) – Viet Nam’s Consulate General in charge of Hong Kong and Macau is taking steps to implement a governmental decision to grant visa exemptions to overseas Vietnamese that will come into force from September 1.
Talking with Hong Kong-based Viet Nam News Agency (VNA) correspondent on August 30, Consul General Ho Xuan Son said the Consulate General spread the word to the overseas Vietnamese community of the new visa exemptions.
Son added that the Consulate General would organise a get-together with the Vietnamese community in Hong Kong and Macau on the evening of August 31 to celebrate the country’s 62nd anniversary of National Day (Sept. 2) and hand over visa exemption certificates to a number of overseas Vietnamese.
According to the diplomat, more than 5,000 overseas Vietnamese are now residing in Hong Kong and Macau, a large number of whom are Vietnamese of Chinese origin.
Figures released by the Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs show that about 3.2 million ethnically Vietnamese people are currently living in 100 countries and territories around the world with the majority based in the US, France and Australia.-Enditem |