Vietnam Visa Guide and Tips

Most foreigners are required a Vietnamese Entry Visa.    

 Most foreigners are required a Vietnamese Entry Visa. It allows Vietnam visa holders to enter and exit Vietnam at Hanoi, HCM and Danang air-ports or at any of its twelve land borders, three each with Cambodia and China, and six with Laos.

1. If you are required entry visa to Vietnam, you need to arrange Vietnam visa before their departure by applying for a visa approval letter online to get the visa stamp at Vietnam International Airports or apply at local Vietnam Embassy/Consulate to get visa code.

2. Tourist visas are valid for a single 30-days stay. The government often talks about issuing visas on arrival to certain favoured nationalities, but as yet this sensible scheme has failed to materialise. Arranging the paperwork for a Vietnamese visa has become fairly straightforward, but it remains expensive and unnecessarily time-consuming.

3. It is possible to arrange a visa on arrival through Vietnamese travel agencies. They will need visa applicants’ passport details in advance and will send a visa approval letter to the visa applicants to confirm the visa to be issued at the Vietnam international airport of arrival. In Asia the best place to pick up a Vietnamese visa is Cambodia, where it cost around 30USD and can be arranged within the applying date. Bangkok is also a popular place as many agencies offer cheap packages with an air ticket and visa thrown in.

4. If you plan to spend more than a month in Vietnam, or if you plan to exit Vietnam and enter again from Cambodia or Laos, arrange a three-month multiple-entry visa. It costs around 95USD in Cambodia, but is not available from all Vietnamese Embassies. For instance, if you wear shorts or scruffy clothing, look untidy or unshaven, you can be in some problems. Therefore, the Vietnam visa applicants are advised to try the best to look "respectable".