Visa Approval Letter

Visa Approval Letter is the official document which issued by Vietnam Immigration Department that helps the applicants get their visa stamped onto their passport at the immigration check-in when arriving at the Vietnam International Airport. It is only used for visa on arrival for those travelling by air to Vietnam.

Visa Approval Letter is the official document which issued by Vietnam Immigration Department that helps the applicants get their visa stamped onto their passport at the immigration check-in when arriving at the Vietnam International Airport. It is only used for visa on arrival for those travelling by air to Vietnam. By submitting the approval letter together with your passport (6 months validity at least), two 6-month valid photos, and stamping fee, the visa will be stamped onto your passport. And then, you will be ready to pass over the check-in door and enter Vietnam. Normally, this kind is almost selected when:
1. There’s no Vietnam Embassy/Consulate in your country, or simply
2. You would like to avoid all the embassy/consulate chasing-down, hassle, and to save your time.
It can be seen that Visa Approval Letter is more easily and simply got and used. And it is, in Vietnam, completely valid and reliable. For visa approval letter, you’d better get a travel agent do all the procedures for you so that you can save much of your time. To apply for a visa on arrival to Vietnam (to get visa approval letter, please contact us at http://www.vietnamvisaagent.com for the best service.

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First-Born Baby Custom

Normally in Vietnam especially in the countryside regions, three generations live under the same roof. Based on Confucianism telnet, when a girl gets marriage she has to follow her husband and live in her husband family. It has some difficulties for the wife when she is pregnant and has baby at the first time. The first-born baby custom means the wife come back to her family to have the first-born baby, and from the second child she stays at her husband’s family.

This custom is popular in Binh Tri Thien and some other regions in the north of Vietnam. In Nghe An, Ha Tinh unless the husband lives in his wife’s family in general the wife must not go to her family to have a baby. Why Vietnamese has first-born baby custom? Because in the past the married age is young, (woman from thirteen and man from sixteen can get married), and when a young wife has a baby at the first time, she does not have any experiences during pregnancy. Furthermore, she still hesitates to depend on her mother-in-law, her sister-in-law for help and it would be easier to ask for help from her mother and her sister. Next time having a baby she has experiences, she can deal with difficulties by herself so she can stay at her husband’s family. Some days before confinement, the parent-in-law or the husband goes to the wife’s family to talk with the wife’s parent to take the wife come back her family. After confinement, the baby is strong enough. The husband prepares some presents to pick her wife up and take her to his home. The grandparent-in-law of the baby is very careful to mark a smut on baby’s forehead to drive ghost away on the way coming home.

Contrary to above custom, in Ha Tinh only the daughter-in-laws can have baby at the family. If the wife is staying at her house and cannot come back her husband family, her parent has to pitch a tent temporarily for her to have a baby or she has to go to buffalo’ cage outside the house.
In case the wife is motherless, she stays at her husband family to have a baby as normal.

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Recording Name on Family Annals Custom

According to the old custom, after checking the family annals, avoiding the profanation of taboo names (name of a child is same as the name of ancestors); the newborn child is officially given a name. In case of the name of the child is similar the name of ancestors, it has to be changed.

The ceremony of announcement name of a child to ancestor is very simple. It is needed only incense, betel and a glass of wine. Normally this ceremony is organized annual in ancestor death anniversary. All children which are born in each year are invited to announce their name at once. The order of each name in family annals is sorted by year. There are number of forms which are used to record the name but all of them contain the following information: name, parent, generations, branch of family, first-born child or not, date of birth and the date of recording this information.

In Vietnamese viewpoint, the daughter is the child of her husband family so her name is not recorded in family annals. But after The August Revolution, some families abolished that injustice, the name daughter is recorded on family annals

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