Case Study Seoul: How Mrs. Lee Claimed Her $8,500 Refund Without Returning to Vietnam

"Can I still claim my social insurance if I already left Vietnam eighteen months ago?"

Mrs. Lee asked me this on a call from Seoul.

She had worked as a creative director for a consumer brand in Ho Chi Minh City for over two years. When her contract wrapped up, she packed her life into shipping boxes and relocated back to South Korea.

Like most foreign professionals, she assumed that once she boarded her flight at Tan Son Nhat, her Vietnamese pension money was permanently locked away.

Flying back to Saigon just to chase administrative paperwork made zero sense: $1,200 in international flights, hotel bookings, taking time off work, and spending days navigating district government offices where she could not read the forms.

A former colleague in District 2 passed her my contact.

I pulled her records and calculated her statutory entitlement: The Vietnamese Social Security Administration owed her over 215,000,000 VND (roughly $8,500 USD).

Here is how we recovered every dollar without her ever booking a flight back to Vietnam:

• The Bilingual Power of Attorney:

We prepared a tailored, bilingual Power of Attorney (PoA) mapped specifically to her social book number and sent it to her inbox in Seoul.

• The Seoul Authentication:

Mrs. Lee spent an hour visiting a local notary in Seoul, followed by an authentication stamp from the Embassy of Vietnam in South Korea. Total time spent on her end: under two hours.

• The Courier Handoff:

She placed the legalized PoA and her original blue social insurance book into a DHL express envelope and sent it to our office in Saigon.

• Local Representation:

The morning the parcel arrived, our team took formal custody of the dossier. We submitted the claim to the competent social security bureau, resolved the verification inquiries, and monitored the file daily.

Four weeks later: The state treasury wired her full lump-sum entitlement directly into her designated account.

No international flights. No lost workdays. Zero administrative friction.

Mrs. Lee paid our service fee upfront because she was not hunting for the cheapest fix. She wanted a team that delivers clean, predictable execution across borders.

If you worked in Vietnam on a local contract and already relocated back to South Korea, the UK, Europe, Australia, or North America:

Your money does not disappear just because you crossed an ocean.

Drop me a direct message with the years you spent in Vietnam, or visit dichvubhxh.vn/en. My team will pull your record and confirm if your payout can still be recovered remotely.