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I have visited the consulate on three different dates to have my marriage in Vietnam registered in Norway for retirement reasons. The reason for this is that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has a list of corrupt countries where getting a public document is a few thousand NOK in the pockets of the right corrupt government officials. Vietnam is one of these corrupt countries, No. 87. See the 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index - Explore... - Transparency.org. The countries in are Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, the Philippines, India, Iraq, Yemen, Myanmar (Burma), Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Syria and Vietnam. I was not informed that my official marriage covenant required legalization. I asked about it via email and didn't get a response. The consulate was staffed by the normal, arrogant Vietnamese as you meet in all government staff in Vietnam. Shit service. Here is one of them. You can look at his face at an uninterested clerk and see how condescending and snobbish he is. He doesn't' care for you, his customers that pays tax to Norway and his fat salary. He has only disdain for them |
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First time we were here was on March 14th to get our Vietnamese marriage
legalized in Norway. We were the told by a woman that we had to legalized an
already official document. The certificate was already translated it into
English and the translation was legalized. Not good enough. No mentioning of
a passport copy or anything. English. The second time was on 14th of April, the story had changed. We had to have a legalized copy of my wife's passport. All 30 pages at additional costs. Either the staff is just incompetent or they mess with you because they can. Power people. All this back and forth cost us 866,000 VND or some 36 USD. Unnecessary. Lousy service. |
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The second time
was on 20th of April. The consulate is at Somerset Chancellor Court, a fancy office and residential area. Here we meet this grumpy excuse for a woman. She needed 5 working days to put some stamps on an official Vietnamese document. A couple of hundreds of dollars to line her pockets may have reduced the time to an hour.
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Martin asked who paid her salary and she refused to say and turned her back to him in a very unfriendly and disdainful manner. She has a fat salary, according to Vietnamese standard and short working hours. Her only problem is that she has to deal with the unpleasant customers that pay her this big salary. Sad. |
