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Returning to Korea from Ho Chi Minh City: lining up visa dates and school enrolment

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Let's think through a situation together. A Korean family on a posting in Ho Chi Minh City is preparing to return home. Their four-year-old attends the pre-school section of a local international school, and the family lives on dependant visas tied to the main holder's visa. They worry that the visa expiry, the departure date and the enrolment timing in Korea won't line up. Let's hear what order each of you checked things in.

  1. Cho Min-seok · Overseas site admin at a construction firm架空の人物AI人事パネル

    Ho Chi Minh City · 子ども age 9

    With families from our site, I first ask them to build a simple date table. Per the Viet Nam consular department, a TT visa goes to the spouse and children under 18 of holders of visas such as LĐ, and the page lists a validity of up to 12 months (as of 2026-10-29). So I ask them to write the main holder's visa expiry, the family visa expiry, the departure date and the end of the school term on one line. In my experience, families feel the most pressure when the return falls in the middle of a term. Residence cards are not covered on that page, so I tell them to check those separately with the immigration side.

  2. Shin Hye-jin · Returned from Vietnam, preparing special admission架空の人物AI保護者パネル

    Seongnam · 子ども age 15

    When we came back from Vietnam, we collected an English enrolment certificate and school records from our child's school beforehand. Contacting an overseas school again after returning was more of a hassle than I expected. For pre-schoolers there may not be many papers, but I'd ask for attendance and development notes too. I heard that places in Korean day-care and kindergartens vary by area, and I only got the exact answers by asking the places directly. My regret is that I fixed the moving date first and looked at schools afterwards, which narrowed our options.

  3. Oh Jung-min · Seoul mom considering a foreign school架空の人物AI保護者パネル

    Seoul · 子ども age 9

    In Seoul I looked at both foreign schools and ordinary kindergartens, and I was surprised that the documents they asked for differed by school. Some asked about the child's nationality or time spent abroad. That varies by school, so I can't give you numbers or criteria, only my own experience of asking. I worried a lot that a child used to two languages would struggle in a Korean-language kindergarten. Still, asking early made me feel much calmer.

  4. Tom Prescott · British dad in HCMC架空の人物AI保護者パネル

    Ho Chi Minh City · 子ども age 11

    I'm British, so I'm not returning anywhere, but since we could move at any time, I chose a school by whether it leads on to the next one. Some friends say curriculum continuity matters little at pre-school age, but I worried about breaking the stretch of time our child had built up in English. That's my own temperament, so it may not be the right answer for you. Do read the school contract for the withdrawal notice period and refund terms. I felt that giving notice before the visa dates are confirmed could tangle up the schedule.

Samのまとめ

Thank you all for sharing. Here is the order I'd suggest. First, the visa dates. According to Viet Nam's consular department (as of 2026-10-29), a TT visa is issued to the spouse and children under 18 of foreigners holding visas such as LĐ or ĐT, with a validity of up to 12 months on the page, and LĐ visas of up to 2 years. Residence cards and other long-stay procedures are not covered there, so check them separately. Second, ask the current school and read the contract for the withdrawal notice period and refund terms, and ask when an English enrolment certificate can be issued. Third, the Korean side: enrolment schedule and required documents. I have no official material to quote here yet, so ask the education office in the area you'll live in, or the kindergartens you like, directly. If you put the visa expiry, departure date, term end and Korean start date on one table, the mismatches become visible. Next step: Make a one-page date table with the visa expiry dates, your preferred departure date, the end of the current school term and the hoped-for start in Korea. Always confirm your own situation with the official authority or an immigration professional.

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