Accordingly, any Vietnamese citizens possessing a passport issued from July 1, 2022 having a serial number beginning with ‘P’ cannot apply for a type-C or type-D visa to this country. Even with a valid visa, the holder of these passports can still be rejected at the German border since the passports are not initially recognized in Germany.
The reason is that the new Vietnamese passport form does not have clear information about the birthplace of its holder, which leads to the inability to correctly identify that person because many people may share the same full name.
On July 28, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is contacting the German Embassy in order to find a suitable solution as soon as possible.
