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Norway
Sourced from UDI · 56 situations
47 family immigration · 9 tourist visa — short stays under Schengen rules and long-term family permits, all sourced from UDI.
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Germany
Sourced from Auswärtiges Amt / VFS · 36 situations
36 situations across three corpora — Schengen visitor visas (tourism, visit family or friends, business, cultural and sport events, official delegations, medical treatment, short-term training), national long-stay visas (work, study, vocational training, language course, au-pair, self-employment, jobseeker / Chancenkarte, and more), and family reunification (spouse, children, parents) — sourced from the Auswärtiges Amt and the German Embassy Vietnam's published VFS Global checklists.
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France
Sourced from service-public.gouv.fr / france-visas / TLS Contact · 41 situations
41 situations across three corpora — Schengen visitor visas (tourism, family visit, business, cultural and sport, medical treatment, airport transit), national long-stay visas (Talent Passport across 12 sub-tracks, salaried and non-salaried activity, study, internship, volunteering, au-pair, extended tourism, schooled minor), and family immigration (spouse / child / ascendant / parent of a French citizen, family of an EU/EEA citizen, regroupement familial, adoption) — sourced from service-public.gouv.fr and the france-visas portal, with TLS Contact intake details for Vietnam.
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🇳🇴 Norway
Family immigration
- Child under 18
- Foster child under 18
- Full siblings under 18
- Parent of child with asylum
- Parent of Norwegian child under 18
- Parent with access to child under 18
- Parent visiting child (up to 9 months)
- Parent of child over 18
- Child of worker
- Child of student
- Child 18-21 with previous stay
- Dependent child over 18
- Parent was Norwegian at birth
- Other family members
- Renewal of permit
- Fiancé to spouse renewal
- Worker family renewal
- Spouse of EU/EEA national
- Cohabitant of EU/EEA national
- Child/grandchild of EU/EEA national
- Marrying EU/EEA national
- Parent/grandparent of EU/EEA national
- Foster child of EU/EEA national
- Family in need of care of EU/EEA national
- Other family of EU/EEA national
- Spouse of Norwegian (EEA)
- Cohabitant of Norwegian (EEA)
- Child/grandchild of Norwegian (EEA)
- Parent/grandparent of Norwegian (EEA)
- Sibling under 18 of Norwegian (EEA)
- Foster child of Norwegian (EEA)
- Family in need of care of Norwegian (EEA)
- Other family of Norwegian (EEA)
- Spouse (Foreign-citizen sponsor)
- Spouse (Norwegian or Nordic sponsor)
- Getting married (Foreign-citizen sponsor)
- Getting married (Norwegian or Nordic sponsor)
- Cohabitant (Norwegian or Nordic sponsor)
- Cohabitant (Foreign-citizen sponsor)
- Spouse of worker (Norwegian or Nordic sponsor)
- Spouse of worker (Foreign-citizen sponsor)
- Cohabitant of worker (Norwegian or Nordic sponsor)
- Cohabitant of worker (Foreign-citizen sponsor)
- Spouse of student (Norwegian or Nordic sponsor)
- Spouse of student (Foreign-citizen sponsor)
- Cohabitant of student (Norwegian or Nordic sponsor)
- Cohabitant of student (Foreign-citizen sponsor)
🇩🇪 Germany
National visa (long-stay)
- University studies (long-term)
- Vocational training (dual apprenticeship)
- Skilled workers with academic education
- Scientists and researchers
- IT specialists
- Skilled workers with vocational training
- Recognition of foreign professional qualification
- Accompanying family members
- Short-term quota-allocated employment
- Voluntary service
- Professional drivers
- Specialty cooks
- Intra-corporate transfer of employees (ICT card)
- Recognition partnership
- Jobseeker visa for recognised skilled workers (Chancenkarte)
- Vocational-training-place jobseeker (up to 25 years) and job seeker
- Employment of practitioners (workers with substantial experience)
- Jobseeker visa under the point system (Chancenkarte)
- Visa for self-employment
- Visa for an au-pair stay
- Visa for an intensive German-language course
- Visa for a study-related internship
- Visa for school attendance
- Visa for a qualification measure toward skilled-worker status
🇫🇷 France
Schengen visitor visa
- Tourism / private stay (≤ 90 days)
- Business travel (≤ 90 days)
- Family visit / private visit (≤ 90 days)
- Cultural / sport event (≤ 90 days)
- Medical treatment (≤ 90 days) — short-stay Schengen visa « soins médicaux »
- Airport transit visa (ATV) — NOT REQUIRED for Vietnamese passport holders (as of 2026-05-14)
National visa (long-stay)
- Long-term studies (VLS-TS Étudiant)
- Schooled minor (VLS « mineur scolarisé »)
- Salaried employment (Salarié / Travailleur temporaire — VLS-TS)
- Talent Passport (Passeport Talent / Carte talent)
- Extended tourism / Visiteur (VLS-TS « visiteur »)
- Jeune au pair (Young au pair — VLS-TS)
- Young worker (Jeunes salariés / Jeunes professionnels) — NOT AVAILABLE to Vietnamese applicants
- Talent passport — Qualified employee (Salarié qualifié, VLS-TS Talent)
- Talent passport — Employee of an innovative company (JEI / entreprise innovante)
- Talent passport — Employee on assignment (Salarié en mission, intra-group mobility)
- Talent passport — EU Blue Card (Carte bleue européenne)
- Talent passport — Researcher (Chercheur, convention d'accueil)
- Talent passport — Business creator (Porteur de projet, parcours création d'entreprise)
- Talent passport — Innovative economic project (Porteur de projet, parcours projet économique innovant)
- Talent passport — Direct economic investment (Porteur de projet, parcours investissement économique direct)
- Talent passport — Company director (Mandataire social, 3× SMIC)
- Talent passport — Medical and pharmaceutical professions (Professions médicales et de la pharmacie)
- Talent passport — Artistic and cultural profession (Profession artistique et culturelle)
- Talent passport — Renowned person (Personne de renommée nationale ou internationale)
- Non-salaried activity — Commerce, industrie, artisanat
- Non-salaried activity — Profession libérale
- Non-salaried activity — Médecin / dentiste / sage-femme / pharmacien en exercice privé
- Stagiaire en entreprise (company internship — convention de stage, parcours Entreprise)
- Stagiaire en formation professionnelle continue (vocational training internship — parcours Formation continue)
- Stagiaire associe en milieu hospitalier (foreign medical practitioner — structured clinical training at a French CHU)
- Volontaire CES — Corps Européen de Solidarité / European Voluntary Service
- Service civique — Résidence-conversion track (NOT a Vietnam-entry route)
- Volontariat associatif — Résidence-conversion track (NOT a Vietnam-entry route)
Family immigration
- Family of EU/EEA/Swiss citizen (Directive 2004/38)
- Family of foreign resident (Regroupement familial — sponsor-initiated)
- Adoption (visa long séjour « adoption » — MAI) — SUSPENDED FOR VIETNAM 5 MAR 2026–~5 MAR 2027
- Spouse of French national — Conjoint(e) de Français(e)
- Child of French national — Enfant de Français (minor child of a French parent)
- Ascendant of French national — Ascendant(e) de Français (parent of an adult French citizen)
- Parent of French minor — Parent d'enfant français mineur (foreign parent of a French minor residing in France)
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