Representative office in Hanoi - Beginning Operations

After filing and receiving your seal in Hanoi,  you have 45 days to begin operations.
This is a formal process which requires filling out some documents and filing them with the Departments of Industry and Trade.

Vietname / Hanoi maintains a website for this process,  which does not have a lot of clear instruction.  However they have a template form,  which helps to identify a couple of important steps that need to be followed

• You must submit a form describing the details of beginning operations.  The form has the name of the person doing business,  the bank account,  the date you started,etc
• There are additional portions of the form which can help you to:
• change the head of the Representative Office
• register employees
• change the address of the headquarters

When I started to discuss the need to make several of these changes,  my attorney was quoting $200 for each form,  but it turns out that they can all really be done at the same time,  almost in the same form.

I will be looking for an attorney,  that will be able to review my work in filling out the forms , confirm that they are filled correctly,  receive them by fedEx and then submit them to the authority for me and scan the results to me.