Ho Chi Minh City Police said on May 13 that the city's immigration division had coordinated with related agencies to receive 33 Vietnamese citizens deported by the U.S. at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi. It was one of several handover operations in recent months.
On March 23, the same division received 34 Ho Chi Minh City residents deported by the U.S. for violating American law or failing to meet residency requirements.
The Immigration Department, part of the Ministry of Public Security, reported that in the first three months of 2026, localities across Vietnam received 138 deportees in total. The U.S. accounted for 77, Cambodia 58 and Canada 4.
City police data shows the cumulative total has risen into the hundreds over five months, with the U.S. and Cambodia still the dominant origins.
More than 15,000 Southeast Asian refugees, including Vietnamese, Lao and Cambodian nationals, are living in the U.S. under final orders of removal, according to figures cited in the Southeast Asian Deportation Relief Act, a bill introduced in Congress in February 2026 in response to accelerated enforcement. In May 2025, a single mass-removal flight returned 93 Vietnamese deportees alongside 65 Lao nationals.
