Topic: guest workers

Japan remained the leading destination, receiving 35,240 workers, followed by Taiwan (China) with 28,206 and South Korea with 5,650.

These markets include Australia, Canada, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Russia, Czech Republic, and Finland.

At the end of 2023, airport security officers found five Vietnamese citizens using fake Mexican visas with the intention of fleeing to the US.

Besides traditional labor markets with high income such as Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan (China), new destinations include Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Hungary, and Greece.

Half of Vietnam’s 146,000 labor exports in the first eleven months went to Japan.