The UK and Vietnam set up their diplomatic relations in 1973. The two countries entered into a Strategic Partnership Agreement in 2010, demonstrating the breadth and depth of existing cooperation and shared level of ambition for the future.
The Strategic Partnership provides a comprehensive framework for cooperation under these priority areas:
• political – diplomatic cooperation
• global and regional issues
• trade and Investment
• sustainable socio-economic development
• education, training, science and technology
• security and defence
• people-to-people links
The UK presence in Vietnam includes the embassy in Hanoi and consulate general in Ho Chi Minh City. Department for International Development programmes are run out of an office in Hanoi and the British Council has an active presence in both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
Services
• Visas
• .Emergency travel documents (ETD)
• Passport renewal
• Births, deaths and marriages
• Travel advice
• Notarial and documentary services
• Legalisation Service
In addition to the services listed above they can also:
• provide information about transferring funds
• provide appropriate help if you have suffered rape or serious assault, are a victim of other crime, or are in hospital
• help people with mental health illness
• do all we properly can to contact you within 24 hours of being told that you have been detained
• offer support and help in a range of other cases, such as child abductions, death of relatives overseas, missing people and kidnapping
• contact family or friends for you if you want
• make special arrangements in cases of terrorism, civil disturbances or natural disasters
