The Humanitarian Resettlement Program assists individuals in processing refugee and Amerasian cases from Vietnam for review under the Humanitarian Operation (HO), Humanitarian Resettlement (HR), Priority One (P1), and Amerasian resettlement programs.

Information Regarding Humanitarian Resettlement (HR) (from the US Consulate office):

On November 15, 2005, the governments of the United States of America and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam jointly announced implementation of a Humanitarian Resettlement (HR) process in order to consider Vietnamese citizens who were former soldiers or officials of the former southern government before April 30, 1975 and were in re-education centers after April 30, 1975 (HO program), or who were former employees of the U.S. government (U-11) and private U.S. companies or organizations (V-11).

There will be a two-year application period from June 25, 2006 until June 25, 2008.  This process is limited to those who were unable to apply or who were unable to complete the application process before the Orderly Departure Program (ODP) closed on September 30, 1994.

-  Persons who previously applied for ODP (HO, U-11 and V-11 subprograms) and were denied are not eligible to re-apply for HR.

-  Persons who were previously notified of their ineligibility for former ODP categories are ineligible to re-apply.

For free, accurate information about this process, please contact the U.S. Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City. 

For more information in Vietnamese about how BPSOS can help, please click here.