Tax, economy, and demographics

Dimension	Mexico	Vietnam
Corporate income tax	30%Very high	20%High
Corporate tax basis	WorldwideWorldwide	WorldwideWorldwide
Personal income tax (marginal)	35%Moderate	35%Moderate
Personal tax basis	WorldwideWorldwide	WorldwideWorldwide
Population	133.0 M×1.30	102.2 M
Area	1,964,375 km²×5.93	331,212 km²
Population density	68 /km²	308 /km²
Capital	Mexico City	Hanoi
Currency	MXN (Mexican peso)	VND (Vietnamese dong)
Main airport	MEX (Mexico City International Airport)	SGN (Tan Son Nhat International Airport)
Phone code	+52	+84
Internet TLD	.mx	.vn

Visa access controls

Your access

Pick your nationality above to see how long you can stay in each country and whether you need a visa.

Passport power

Mobility strength of each country's passport, useful if you are weighing it as a future citizenship.

Mexico passport

#20

Henley rank

156

Visa-free destinations

• Schengen visa-free

Vietnam passport

#85

Henley rank

48

Visa-free destinations

Verdict

For professionals who prioritize safetyshield index, Vietnam leads with 8.2 / 10 versus 4.5 / 10 for Mexico. On weathercomfort index, Mexico is at 7.8 / 10 compared with 5.1 / 10 for Vietnam.

Frequently asked questions

• Mexico

  Can foreign residents open bank accounts and deploy capital in Mexico without friction?

  Foreign residents can open accounts, convert currency, invest, and acquire most assets in Mexico, but onboarding involves real friction rather than none. Mexican banking is supervised by the Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores (CNBV), a deconcentrated body of the Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público (SHCP), while the Banco de México acts as the central bank and monetary authority. Major retail banks include Banamex (Banco Nacional de México, separated from Citi México in December 2024), BBVA México, Santander México, Banorte, HSBC México, Scotiabank, and Inbursa. Account opening for foreign residents typically requires a valid passport, a residence document, a Clave Única de Registro de Población (CURP), proof of a Mexican address such as a recent utility bill, and in many cases a Registro Federal de Contribuyentes (RFC) tax registration, with source-of-funds evidence for higher-value or investment accounts, although exact requirements vary by bank and product. Accounts are tiered from Nivel 1 to Nivel 4, where the lower tiers carry monthly deposit limits and Nivel 4 offers full-documentation functionality with no general statutory deposit cap beyond any limit agreed with the bank. Lead times range from same-day digital onboarding to several weeks where enhanced due diligence applies. Private banking and patrimonial segments operate at the major banks, including BBVA Patrimonial, Santander Select, Banorte Banca Patrimonial, and Banamex, alongside international wealth managers present through different vehicles, with UBS running CNBV-regulated entities, Morgan Stanley through a casa de bolsa, and Julius Baer through a representative office. Entry thresholds are set by each institution rather than by a single market-wide minimum, and local patrimonial tiers can start well below the levels associated with offshore private banking. Mexico applies the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and the Common Reporting Standard (CRS) through its tax authority and was not listed by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) as a high-risk or increased-monitoring jurisdiction at its February 2026 plenary. Mexico has operated a free-floating exchange-rate regime since December 1994, with no general capital controls, so conversion between United States dollars (USD) and Mexican pesos (MXN) and outbound transfers are freely available in practice, subject to bank-level identity and anti-money-laundering checks, sanctions screening, tax documentation, and transaction reporting. Foreigners may own real estate directly outside the constitutional Restricted Zone, defined under Article 27 of the Constitution as the strip within 100 kilometres of an international border and 50 kilometres of any coastline. Inside that zone, residential acquisition is channelled through a fideicomiso, a 50-year renewable bank trust under which the bank holds legal title and the foreigner is the beneficiary. A Mexican company, including one held entirely by foreign capital, may instead hold property directly inside the Restricted Zone for non-residential purposes, while foreign-owned companies may not acquire residential-use property there. Investment access to the Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV) runs through licensed casas de bolsa such as GBM, Actinver, Vector, Monex, Punto Casa de Bolsa, and UBS, among other CNBV-supervised intermediaries, with onboarding speed depending on the brokerage, residence status, tax registration, and compliance review rather than being uniformly same-day. Crypto-assets are not legal tender in Mexico and are not treated as foreign currency under the joint position of the Banco de México, the SHCP, and the CNBV, and Mexican financial institutions are not authorised to offer crypto-asset operations to the public, although non-bank exchanges such as Bitso operate in the retail market, so crypto should not be read as a regulated substitute for bank deposits or securities custody. Mexican tax residents may also carry annual reporting and tax obligations on income earned through foreign entities and transparent foreign vehicles under the controlled-foreign-entity and preferred-tax-regime rules of the Ley del Impuesto sobre la Renta (LISR), principally Articles 176 to 178 of its Title VI, filed through the dedicated annual informative return, rather than under a blanket offshore-account disclosure.

• Vietnam

  Can foreign residents open bank accounts and deploy capital in Vietnam without friction?

  The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) regulates the banking sector under the Law on Credit Institutions 2024 (Law No. 32/2024/QH15). Major domestic retail banks include Vietcombank (Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade), VietinBank, BIDV, Agribank, MB Bank, Techcombank, VPBank, and ACB. Foreign-incorporated banks operate through licensed subsidiaries or branches, with HSBC Vietnam, Standard Chartered, Shinhan Bank Vietnam, and United Overseas Bank (UOB) active in retail. ANZ exited retail banking in Vietnam after selling its retail business to Shinhan Bank Vietnam in 2017 and now maintains only an institutional and corporate presence. The baseline account-opening requirement for a foreign individual is a valid passport together with a valid visa or residence document such as a Temporary Residence Card (TRC). Banks may additionally request a local address, proof of income, source-of-funds documentation, and in-person biometric verification depending on the account type, residency status, and anti-money laundering risk profile. Account-opening lead times are bank-specific rather than set by regulation and vary widely between institutions and customer segments. Vietnam implements the United States Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) through a Model 1 Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) signed on April 1, 2016 and in force since July 7, 2016, under which Vietnamese financial institutions report United States account holders to the local authority for onward exchange. Vietnam is not a participating jurisdiction under the Common Reporting Standard (CRS) and has not commenced automatic exchange of individual financial account information, although it joined the Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters in 2023 and signed the country-by-country reporting Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement in January 2025 for corporate group reporting. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) placed Vietnam on its list of jurisdictions under increased monitoring, commonly called the grey list, in June 2023 over anti-money laundering deficiencies, and Vietnam remained listed at the February 2026 FATF plenary, with remediation under the Anti-Money Laundering Law 2022 (Law No. 14/2022/QH15) ongoing. Vietnam maintains active foreign exchange controls under Ordinance 28/2005/PL-UBTVQH11 as amended. The Vietnamese dong is not freely convertible, and foreign currency may be held in onshore accounts but used within Vietnam only in permitted cases. Foreign residents may operate foreign-currency accounts and remit lawful post-tax income abroad through licensed banks against supporting documents, while foreign investors may repatriate lawful profits and recovered capital from direct investment through dedicated capital accounts. Circular 20/2022/TT-NHNN governs one-way outward transfers and current-account payments, but its personal transfer categories such as study, medical treatment, support for relatives, inheritance, and settlement abroad are framed under Article 7.2 of Decree 70/2014/ND-CP around residents who are Vietnamese citizens rather than foreign residents generally, so it should not be read as the universal outbound regime for all foreign individuals. The International Financial Center (IFC) regime under Resolution 222/2025/QH15 adds a targeted carve-out for IFC members, including freer use of foreign currencies between IFC members and simplified capital flows, which is not a general liberalization of the capital account for all foreign residents. Foreign investors face restrictions on real estate. Foreign individuals may purchase apartment units in eligible commercial housing developments capped at 30 percent of any one building and 250 landed houses per ward-equivalent area, with ownership rights generally limited to 50 years and renewable once for up to 50 more years subject to provincial People's Committee approval rather than automatic renewal. Land remains under all-people ownership administered by the State and cannot be held freehold by foreigners, and agricultural land is closed to foreign ownership. On digital assets, Law No. 71/2025/QH15 on Digital Technology Industry, effective January 1, 2026, recognizes crypto assets as property that can be owned, traded, and inherited, ending years of legal ambiguity, while cryptocurrency remains barred as a means of payment and is not legal tender. A controlled five-year pilot under Resolution 05/2025/NQ-CP running from 2025 to 2030 governs issuance, trading, and supervision, with all crypto trading and settlement denominated in Vietnamese dong, and the Ministry of Finance began accepting licence applications from Vietnamese crypto service providers in January 2026.

• Mexico

  How does taxation apply to residents and foreign-source income in Mexico?

  Mexico taxes its fiscal residents on worldwide income, whatever the source of the wealth, an obligation that derives from Article 1 of the Ley del Impuesto sobre la Renta (LISR). Tax residency itself is defined in Article 9 of the Codigo Fiscal de la Federacion, which is triggered by a permanent home in Mexico or, for a person with a home in more than one country, by a centre of vital interests in Mexico, meaning that more than 50 percent of the calendar-year income is Mexican-sourced or that the principal centre of professional activities sits there. The federal corporate income tax, the Impuesto sobre la Renta (ISR), is a flat 30 percent under Article 9 LISR with no state-level corporate surcharge. Concessionary corporate regimes available in 2026 include the manufacturing, maquila and export services regime (IMMEX) under the Decreto of 1 November 2006 and Articles 181 to 183 LISR, where a Safe Harbor methodology has been mandatory since fiscal year 2025 after the last advance pricing agreements covered 2020 to 2024. Under Safe Harbor the taxable base is the higher of 6.9 percent of assets used or 6.5 percent of operating costs and expenses, and the resulting effective burden depends on each company's cost, asset and margin structure rather than on any fixed statutory rate. The Regimen Simplificado de Confianza (RESICO) for legal entities, under Articles 206 to 215 LISR, applies cash-basis 30 percent ISR to Mexican-resident corporations with up to MXN 35 million annual revenue and only individual resident shareholders, and allows accelerated investment deduction at the maximum percentages of Article 209 LISR only where total investments in the year do not exceed MXN 3 million, the general Title II percentages applying above that threshold. The Polos de Desarrollo Economico para el Bienestar regime, created by decree in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion of 22 May 2025, grants a 100 percent ISR credit during fiscal years 1 to 3, then 50 percent or up to 90 percent where minimum employment thresholds are exceeded during years 4 to 6, plus 100 percent immediate deduction of new fixed assets through 30 September 2030 and a 100 percent VAT credit on intra-Polo transactions, with 14 Polos approved by the inter-ministerial committee as of May 2025. The Plan Mexico decree, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion of 21 January 2025, layers accelerated depreciation of 41 to 91 percent on new fixed assets acquired in 2025 and 2026 and 35 to 89 percent on assets acquired between 2027 and 30 September 2030, plus a 25 percent additional deduction on the increase in training and innovation expenses for priority sectors anywhere in Mexico. Personal income tax is progressive from 1.92 to 35 percent across 11 brackets under the annual tariff of Article 152 LISR. For 2026 the 35 percent top marginal rate applies to annual taxable income above MXN 5,107,703.93, the bracket published in Annex 8 of the Resolucion Miscelanea Fiscal 2026 (Diario Oficial de la Federacion of 28 December 2025) after the tables were rebased by 13.21 percent for accumulated inflation. The RESICO regime for individuals, under Articles 113-E to 113-J LISR, offers a flat 1.00 to 2.50 percent ISR on gross business, professional or rental income up to MXN 3.5 million annual, with no deductions, and is unavailable to partners or shareholders of legal entities, to related-party transactors and to foreign residents. There is no separate federal wealth tax, no standalone inheritance or gift tax and no general exit tax at the individual level. Inheritances and legacies are exempt from ISR under Article 93 LISR, while gifts are exempt between spouses and in the direct ascending or descending line and other gifts are exempt only up to three times the annual Unidad de Medida y Actualizacion, the excess being taxable. Capital gains realised by resident individuals on listed Mexican shares are taxed at 10 percent under the dedicated regime of Article 129 LISR, computed on net annual gains with brokers reporting and provisionally withholding and the balance settled in the annual return, rather than as a simple final withholding. The standard VAT rate is 16 percent, with an effective 8 percent rate in the Northern Border Zone through a fiscal stimulus that credits half of the tax, and a 0 percent rate on exports. The Ley de Ingresos de la Federacion 2026, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 7 November 2025, introduces in its Twenty-Fourth Transitory Article a final 15 percent ISR on legally sourced funds held abroad until 8 September 2025, returned to Mexico no later than 31 December 2026 and kept invested in Mexican productive activities for at least three years, the levy applying to the gross amount without deductions and being definitive. Mexico operates a treaty network of more than 60 jurisdictions including the United States, Canada, Spain, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Japan, Korea and most OECD members, with a foreign tax credit available to residents under Article 5 LISR. Mexico participates in the OECD Inclusive Framework but has not enacted a domestic Pillar Two minimum-tax package, with no qualified domestic minimum top-up tax, income inclusion rule or undertaxed profits rule in force as of May 2026, which leaves Polo and IMMEX entities with potential top-up tax exposure at the level of the ultimate parent jurisdiction.

• Vietnam

  How does taxation apply to residents and foreign-source income in Vietnam?

  Vietnam taxes individual tax residents on their worldwide income, while non-residents are taxed only on Vietnam-source income. Tax residency for individuals arises after 183 days of presence in a calendar year, or with a permanent residence in Vietnam, or with a leased accommodation for at least 183 days under Circular 111/2013/TT-BTC. Residents are taxed on worldwide employment income at a progressive scale topping at 35%. The current 7-bracket schedule (5/10/15/20/25/30/35%) triggers the top rate above VND 80 million per month. Personal Income Tax (PIT) Law No. 109/2025/QH15, passed December 10, 2025 and effective July 1, 2026 with employment provisions applying from tax year 2026, simplifies the schedule to 5 brackets (5/10/20/30/35%) and raises the top-rate threshold to VND 100 million per month. The same law raises the personal deduction from VND 11 million to VND 15.5 million per month and the dependent deduction from VND 4.4 million to VND 6.2 million per month. Non-residents pay a flat 20% on Vietnam-source employment income only. Securities transfers such as shares are taxed at 0.1% of the transfer price, while transfers of capital contributions are taxed at 20% on the net gain, or 2% of the transfer price where the acquisition cost and related expenses cannot be determined. Vietnam levies no net wealth tax and has no separate estate or inheritance tax, but inheritances and gifts of covered assets are taxable under personal income tax at a flat 10% on the portion above VND 10 million, rising to VND 20 million under the new law, with transfers between close family members exempt. The double tax treaty network covers approximately 80 jurisdictions including most OECD members and major Asian economies. Vietnamese-incorporated enterprises are subject to corporate income tax (CIT) on their worldwide income, with a credit for foreign tax paid, while foreign enterprises are taxed on Vietnam-source income. The standard CIT rate is 20% under Article 10 of Law No. 67/2025/QH15 on Corporate Income Tax (effective October 1, 2025), with two reduced tiers for smaller companies of 15% (annual revenue under VND 3 billion) and 17% (revenue VND 3 to 50 billion). Article 13 grants a preferential 10% CIT rate for 15 years to new investment projects in priority sectors (high technology, research and development, software production, renewable energy, supporting industries, education, healthcare, environmental services, infrastructure, press agencies) or in extremely difficult socio-economic areas, hi-tech parks, high-tech agricultural zones, and centralized information technology zones. The 17% rate for 10 years applies to qualifying projects in standard difficult areas and selected manufacturing. Article 14 layers a 4-year exemption plus 50% reduction over 9 years on top of the 10% rate, producing 0% effective in years 1 to 4 and 5% in years 5 to 13. The Prime Minister may extend the preferential period by up to 15 additional years for strategic projects. Standard industrial parks are no longer incentivized locations in their own right under the 2025 Law, so a new project located in one qualifies for CIT incentives only if it independently meets a sector-based, project-based, or preferential-area criterion. The Vietnam International Financial Center (IFC), established under Resolution No. 222/2025/QH15 effective September 1, 2025 and detailed by Decree No. 323/2025/ND-CP on establishment and Decree No. 324/2025/ND-CP on financial policies (both dated December 18, 2025), offers IFC members in Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang a 10% CIT rate for 30 years with the same 4-year exemption plus 9-year reduction architecture. It also provides a personal income tax exemption through end of 2030 on salaries and wages earned from work performed in the IFC by qualifying managers, experts, scientists, and highly skilled professionals, both Vietnamese and foreign, subject to prescribed conditions, plus a personal income tax exemption on income from transfers of shares, capital contributions, or capital contribution rights in IFC members through end of 2030, excluding transfers of stocks or warrants of public companies or listed or trading-registering organizations. Eligible sectors include capital markets, banking, asset and fund management, fintech, green finance, digital assets, insurance, family offices, and aviation finance. Resolution No. 107/2023/QH15 implements the OECD Pillar Two Qualified Domestic Minimum Top-up Tax (QDMTT) effective January 1, 2024, which can materially reduce the benefit of Vietnam's 10% headline incentive rates for in-scope multinational enterprise (MNE) groups with consolidated revenues above EUR 750 million in 2 of 4 preceding years, because a domestic top-up tax applies where the Vietnam effective tax rate falls below 15%.

• Mexico

  What long-term residence options exist in Mexico for internationally mobile individuals?

  Mexico operates a consular Temporary Residency route (Residente Temporal, Article 52(VII) of the Ley de Migración) for stays of more than 180 days and up to 4 years, alongside a direct Permanent Residency route for retired or pensioned applicants (Residente Permanente, Article 54(III)). The Acuerdo published by the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE) in the Diario Oficial de la Federación on 25 July 2025 rebased the economic solvency thresholds onto multiples of the Unidad de Medida y Actualización (UMA), the daily reference unit set at MXN 117.31 from 1 February 2026. Temporary Residency by economic solvency offers four main routes. The income route requires monthly employment or pension income above 680 UMA (about MXN 79,771) over the previous 6 months. The savings route requires an average monthly bank or investment balance of 11,460 UMA (about MXN 1,344,373) over the previous 12 months. The real estate route requires ownership of Mexican property worth more than 91,710 UMA (about MXN 10,758,500). The investment route requires qualifying investment above 45,850 UMA (about MXN 5,378,664), which may be evidenced through capital participation in a Mexican legal entity, transfer of assets or rights to the company, qualifying fixed assets used for business activity, or documentation proving economic or business activity in Mexico. The visa is issued for a single entry, the residence card must be requested before the Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM) within 30 calendar days of entry, and it is granted for 1 year initially, renewable up to a cumulative 4 years. Family members may qualify through family unity, with an additional economic solvency requirement of 220 UMA (about MXN 25,808) per dependent, which is a means test rather than a fee. Direct Permanent Residency is available to retired or pensioned applicants who show either an average monthly bank or investment balance of 45,850 UMA (about MXN 5,378,664) over the previous 12 months, or pension income above 1,140 UMA (about MXN 133,733) per month over the previous 6 months, granting indefinite stay from issuance of the card. Spouses or common-law partners of Mexican nationals fall under Article 56 and are not documented directly as permanent residents. They are first granted Temporary Residency for 2 years, after which they may change to Permanent Residency if the marital or common-law link subsists. The same 2-year sequence applies to spouses of foreign permanent residents under Article 55. Employer-sponsored Temporary Residency runs under Article 52(VII), through a visa authorisation promoted before the INM by a Mexican employer holding a valid employer registration (Constancia de Inscripción del Empleador). A points-based Permanent Residency is codified under Article 57, but its implementing dispositions are not operational in a clearly defined way under current published rules. The Ley Federal de Derechos amendment published in the Diario Oficial de la Federación on 7 November 2025 raised INM card fees sharply from 1 January 2026, with the 1-year temporary residence card rising to MXN 11,140.74, approximately double the main 2025 reference amount. A 50 percent fee reduction applies where residency rests on family unity, a national employment offer by a registered employer, or an invitation by a public or private organisation for unpaid activity. A temporary-to-permanent pathway therefore carries an indicative cumulative INM cost in the region of MXN 47,500 to 60,000 depending on the renewal sequence, before consular fees, translations and ancillary costs, rather than a single fixed amount. Naturalisation is generally available after 5 years of legal residence under the Ley de Nacionalidad, reduced to 2 years for nationals of Latin American countries or of the Iberian Peninsula, and for spouses of Mexican nationals who meet the residence and cohabitation conditions. Dual nationality should be treated with care. Mexican nationality by birth is strongly protected, but naturalised Mexicans are subject to specific renunciation and protestation requirements and to constitutional grounds for loss of Mexican nationality by naturalisation, so foreign nationals keeping another citizenship should confirm their position before naturalising.

• Vietnam

  What long-term residence options exist in Vietnam for internationally mobile individuals?

  Vietnam offers a tiered investor visa system under Law No. 47/2014/QH13 (as amended by Law No. 51/2019/QH14 and Law No. 23/2023/QH15) with four DT categories indexed on capital contribution. The DT1 visa (capital of VND 100 billion or more) carries a 5-year visa term and a Temporary Residence Card (TRC) up to 10 years. DT2 (VND 50 billion to under 100 billion) grants a 5-year visa and a TRC up to 5 years. DT3 (VND 3 billion to under 50 billion) grants a 3-year visa and a TRC up to 3 years. The DT4 tier (under VND 3 billion) is limited to a 12-month visa with no investor TRC eligibility and no family sponsorship rights. DT1, DT2, and DT3 holders may sponsor spouses and minor children under 18 for TT (Tham Than) dependent visas under Article 8 of the Immigration Law, while common-law partners and adult children are excluded. Work-based pathways include the LD1 visa (work permit exempt) and the LD2 visa (work permit holders), both valid up to 2 years and convertible to a TRC up to 2 years. The governing framework is now Decree 219/2025/ND-CP, effective August 7, 2025, which replaced Decree 152/2020/ND-CP and Decree 70/2023/ND-CP, merged the foreign labour demand approval and the work permit application into a single online dossier, decentralized approval to provincial People's Committees, and shortened the statutory work permit timeline to 10 working days. It did not merge the work permit with the visa application, which remain separate steps. Foreign lawyers practicing in Vietnam under the Law on Lawyers obtain the LS visa with a 5-year term. The Special Visa Exemption Card (SVEC) under Decree 221/2025/ND-CP, in force from August 15, 2025, is a multi-entry waiver of up to 5 years capped at 90 days per stay per entry, reserved for international elites including executives of the world top 100 enterprises by market capitalization, holders of prestigious international science and technology awards, and globally top-ranked athletes. From July 1, 2026, under Law No. 118/2025/QH15, two preferential visa symbols become available, the UD1 for high-quality digital technology industry personnel and other persons eligible for incentives under a law or a National Assembly resolution, and the UD2 for their spouses and children under 18. Under the general regime, amended Article 9 caps the UD1 and UD2 visa at 5 years, while amended Article 38 sets the matching UD1 and UD2 Temporary Residence Card at up to 10 years, the same ceiling as the DT1 investor card. Within the Vietnam International Financial Centre (IFC), Decree 327/2025/ND-CP lets the UD1 visa itself reach 10 years rather than the general 5-year visa cap, with a UD1 TRC up to 10 years and a matching UD2 for spouses and children under 18, for key investors, experts, managers, and highly skilled staff of IFC-headquartered organizations. Outside the IFC framework, Vietnam offers no general DT investor pathway to permanent residence. The Permanent Residence Card (PRC) under Article 39 of Law 47/2014 is restricted to four narrow categories, namely meritorious persons recognized by State decoration, scientists or experts sponsored by ministerial-level authority, spouses or children or parents of Vietnamese citizens with at least 3 years of continuous residence, and stateless persons resident since 2000, with a 10-year renewable validity. Decree 327/2025/ND-CP introduces a separate IFC-specific permanent residence route for key investors, experts, scientists, persons of special talent and senior managers who have worked continuously for at least 3 years at an organization headquartered in the IFC. On nationality, Law No. 79/2025/QH15, effective July 1, 2025, broadened the dual citizenship exceptions beyond the prior near-total prohibition. Retention of foreign nationality on naturalization is now possible for applicants with a Vietnamese spouse, child, parent or grandparent, for those making meritorious contributions or whose naturalization is deemed beneficial to Vietnam, and for minors naturalizing alongside a parent, in each case subject to Presidential approval and compliance with the law of the foreign country. A separate 10-year Investor Golden Visa announced in May 2025 remains under government review and is not yet enacted as of May 2026, with no draft law published and no application channel open.

Also compare

• IndonesiavsMexico
• MexicovsThailand
• IndonesiavsVietnam
• ThailandvsVietnam

Related rankings

• Tax Freedom Index
• SafetyShield Index