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If the title is under her name she is correct. Vietnam controls the transfer of funds abroad of its citizen very tightly. Also, since she can't travel abroad freely, there is no acceptable reason for her to transfer money abroad. If the title was under your name, that would be different story.

Gday Willo & welcome to the forum.

You鈥檝e got an Ex wife and a property In Vietnam ( likely in wife鈥檚 name) & I鈥檓 assuming you want your share 50% of the divorce sale proceeds (if it sells) sent to Australia.

Your wife said that can鈥檛 happen due to the bank 鈥渟aying so.鈥�
In the event of the property selling, provided you can prove what you brought into VN and paid , in the normal course of business you should be able to take out of VN up to that amount.聽 BUT ,,you may already be out of the country back in OZ,,and it鈥檚 not YOU initiating the transfer.

Your now relying on her to send you money.馃�揳 few聽 problems with that.
Looks like she holds all the cards now.

How鈥檚 the rapport with your ex wife. ???聽 聽 Because that鈥檚 what matters most.聽 If she鈥檚 a good person with a reasonable understanding of common courtesy, fairness & decency ....there鈥檚 a possibly you might see your money.

Unfortunately,,I鈥檝e known blokes waiting forever to see their cash.聽

50% of a property that doesn鈥檛 sell for all sorts of reasons is ZERO.聽 聽That鈥檚 the first hurdle to cross IF or when it sells.聽 聽I鈥檝e seen blokes make trips back here for property settlements only for the sale to fall through at the 11th hour.馃槅

Good luck.

These are the cases for transferring money out by a VN national.

Many Vietnamese also transfer money via brokers at a certain rate.

There are services that will transfer the money for a 1-2% fee.聽 You would be going outside of the legal banking system.聽 ;-)聽

Vietnamese are familiar with this.聽 ;-)

Vietnamkid wrote:

There are services that will transfer the money for a 1-2% fee.聽 You would be going outside of the legal banking system.聽 ;-)聽

Vietnamese are familiar with this.聽 ;-)

Trusting these brokers is the main issue.

Vietnamkid wrote:

There are services that will transfer the money for a 1-2% fee.聽 You would be going outside of the legal banking system.聽 ;-)聽

Vietnamese are familiar with this.聽 ;-)

My wife has a friend who recently bought a house in Hawaii for a little over $1 million.聽 When I asked her how, she said that her friend had sold her home in Da Nang for $500 thousand.聽 I questioned her how she brought out the money, she responded with her sometimes characteristic "never mind" that she uses when she does not want to discuss illegal activity.聽 聽I am fairly certain that the woman used the "gold shop" method and am equally certain that it is barely legal if at all.聽 I am equally certain that no taxes were paid on the property appreciation either in the US or VN.聽 Sadly, "Everybody does it so it must be OK" seems to be the prevailing ethic in Vietnamese culture.

colinoscapee wrote:

Trusting these brokers is the main issue.

Most likely word of mouth would put them out of business pretty quickly if the money was not delivered.聽 Another thing that people do to protect themselves is break the movements into smaller segments, probably just under $5000 to avoid international money laundering rules.