Vietnam Visa Guide

I am a Vietnamese, currently living overseas with a foreign nationality, can I get a Vietnam visa?
For Vietnamese overseas, we kindly advise as follows:
- First: Vietnamese overseas (Viet kieu) are offered Vietnam visa exemption to enter Vietnam. Please directly contact the Vietnam Embassy/Consulate in your area for “visa exemption letter”. Please click here for more details http://mienthithucvk.mofa.gov.vn/
- Second: if you would like to save your time, please apply for Vietnam visa at www.Vietnam-Visa.com for special discounted service fee for Vietnamese persons living overseas.
Note:
We will automatically arrange visa to Vietnam upon arrival if there’s no special request.. For any further information, please feel free to refer to our visa information center (http://www.Vietnam-Visa.com) and/or call us at +84. 4. 379.250.78 or hotline 84.946.583.583
You can also drop an email to support@Vietnam-Visa.com, our Customer Supporters will reply within 2 hours during Vietnamese office hours, and within 24 hours outside of Vietnamese office hours. (Vietnam time: GMT + 7; and Working Hours: from 8.00 am – 5.30 pm).

Blending with merry Christmas carols and sparkling lights of the New Year 2011 season, we are pleased to offer you, our valuable customers, a SPECIAL GIFT, that is, one FREE Vietnam VISA (approval letter), when you book Vietnam hotel(s) + car pick-up at http://Vietnamhotels.net

When is this Promotion due?
The “Christmas Promotion” lasts till the end of this December, 2010.

HOW to get this Promotion?
Please kindly follow the below simple guidelines to get this Special Christmas Gift:
• Fill out the online booking form at www.Vietnamhotels.net for hotel room(s) and car pick-up service (from airport to hotel)
• Follow all the steps as per guidelines on the site
• Note “Christmas Gift” at the “Special Request” Blank at Step 3 (Customer details)
• Finish your reservation by settling payment for your hotel booking and car-pick up service, then inform us of your Christmas Gift via phone 84. 437 925 079/80, hotline 84. 989 383 767 or email support@vietnamhotels.net, to get your visa (approval letter) for free. For any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us! We are always willing and pleased to assist you at our best!

Wishing you a Warmly Merry Christmas and Enjoy your stay in Vietnam!!!

1. What is “entry and exit form”?

Those clients who are approved to have visa at Vietnam airports through www.vietnam-visa.com will receive the “entry and exit form”. This form requires your information about your entry and exit Vietnam.

Normally, this form is done on checking in Vietnam airport. However, with an aim to save your time at Vietnam airport, we would like to send this form to customer beforehand to fill out and glue a passport-sized photo on it.

On the bottom of the ‘Application for Entry and Exit Vietnam’ form, it states that you should: “Please, fill in two forms (attaching two latest photos, in 4 x 6 cm size, with a face straight forward) submit one form to the Vietnamese visa issuing office, or consulate, and the other to the frontier police post upon your arrival”.

However, for visa on arrival, you only need to fill in the entry and exit form (1 form) before you get to Vietnam. This form together with visa approval letter, passport, 2 photos and stamping fee, you need to submit at the Immigration Counter at the airport. Thus, you do not need to submit to any other Embassy or Consulate.

2. Some important notices for filling the “Entry and exit form”

There are some items in the forms may draw special attention of applicants. Following is some guidance for filling these items:
+ Item no 6. “Kinds of passport”: Fill into the form the kind of passport you are holding: diplomatic passport, official passport or popular passport.

+ Item No 8. “Present address and phone number”: Fill your permanent address and phone number that will be the easiest for us to contact

+ Item No. 10: Name, address of office, organization or full name of relation, address of your relatives to contact while in Vietnam.
You do not need fill in this item. You can leave it a blank. In the case that you travel with a travel agency, you can noted the name of this travel agency.

+ Item No 12. “Entry and exit time”: You should fill:

- Either “single” (enter and exit Vietnam one time in the validity period noted in your visa) or

- “multiple” (enter and exit Vietnam more than one time in the validity period noted in your visa)

+ Item No 14. “Done at &on”:

- For “Done at”: Fill your port of arrival as you are supposed to submit the form and get your visa stamped there get.

- For “On” : You should note your real arrival date (the day that you check – in Vietnam airport)

+ The footer of the form: For those who have approval letter for visa on arrival should ignore this item as you are going to have you stamped at Vietnam airport, you need not to send anything to Vietnam Embassy.

For further information about Vietnam Visa, please kindly visit our website at www.Vietnam-Visa.com or contact us at:

- Email address: support@vietnam-visa.com ; and/or

- Local phone: 844-625.127.98 within daily working hour; and/or

- Hotline: (84).946.583.583 (24/24)

For any Vietnam-destination information, please click here www.vietnam-beauty.com

We hope to see you in Vietnam and wish you a happy trip!

We have listed here a few mistakes that travelers may usually make in order to help you avoid the same things when applying for a visa on arrival to Vietnam.
1 – Getting visa on arrival right at the arrival airport in Vietnam: Many people think that they can get a visa directly at Vietnam airport without applying online. That is NOT true, you may end up with delaying/canceling your flights or waiting at the airport until the visa is approved or even if you can get board, you can be expelled. Thus, you need to apply for visa on arrival online prior to your trip in order to pick up your visa at the arrival airport in Vietnam.
2 – Visa on arrival at the border: Visa on arrival works for air travel only, it means there is NO on arrival visa for overland/border crossing or sea/water entry. Therefore, in case you DO NOT enter Vietnam by air, we highly recommend you to apply for visa at Vietnam Embassies/Consulates where you are living or staying in advance.
3 – Spelling/Typo mistakes: Many applicants fill in the Application form with WRONG details: full name on passport, passport number or date of birth, passport expiration date. Normally, that may not be a big problem, however, in some cases; they will be refused by airlines at the departure airport since the information on your visa approval letter does not match those in your passport. So, make sure you submit everything correctly and carefully.
4 – Visa validity: Many think that the visa validity will start from the date they enter Vietnam, not from the date they submitted, however, it is not. The visa validity will commence from the date of entry printed in your visa approval letter, not from the date you will enter the country. Thus, please make sure that you make a clear plan of when to enter before ordering a visa to Vietnam.
5 – Visa extensions: many people think that it is easy to extend a visa once they are in Vietnam, however, in fact, it is not that easy, and extending a visa may be a costly and time consuming process. So, if possible, just apply for a 3 month visa in advance instead of a 1 month one to save money on visa extension.

We do believe that what we have written here is not a complete list of mistakes, if you wish to share or add up something, you are welcome at feedback@vietnam-visa.com

Here are codes of Vietnam Visa and Temporary Residence Cards

1. Visas bear the following code signs:

• A1: shall be granted to official members of delegations invited by the Party Central Committee, the National Assembly, the State President, the Government and guests of ranks equivalent to the ranks of ministers, vice ministers, presidents or vice presidents of the People’s Committees of the provinces or centrally-run cities, and their accompanying dependents and servants.
• A2: shall be granted to members of foreign representations and their accompanying dependents and servants.
• A3: shall be granted to persons who enter Vietnam to work with foreign representations or to visit members of foreign representations.
• B1: shall be granted to persons who enter Vietnam to work with the Supreme People’s Procuracy, the Supreme People’s Court, the ministries, the ministerial-level agencies, the agencies attached to the Government, the Peoples Committees of the provinces or centrally-run cities, and the central bodies of the mass organizations.
• B2: shall be granted to persons who enter Vietnam to execute investment projects already licensed by competent Vietnamese State agencies.
• B3: shall be granted to persons who enter Vietnam to work with Vietnamese enterprises.
• B4: shall be granted to persons who enter Vietnam to work at representative offices or branches of economic, cultural or other professional organizations of foreign countries, Vietnam-based non-governmental organizations.
• C1: shall be granted to persons who enter Vietnam for tourist purposes.
• C2: shall be granted to persons who enter Vietnam for other purposes.
• D: shall be granted to persons who enter Vietnam without invitation or reception by any agencies, organizations or individuals.      Visas in D code sign shall be valid for 15 days, while visas in other codes shall be valid for 30 days or more.

2. Temporary residence cards bear the following codes:

• A: shall be granted to members of foreign representations and their accompanying dependents and servants.
• B1: shall be granted to foreigners working with the Supreme People’s Procuracy, the Supreme People’s Court, the ministries, the ministerial-level agencies, the agencies attached to the Government, the People’s Committees of the provinces or centrally-run cities, and the central bodies of the mass organizations.
• B2: shall be granted to foreigners working for investment projects already licensed by the competent Vietnamese State agencies.
• B3: shall be granted to foreigners working with Vietnamese enterprises.
• B4: shall be granted to foreigners on payrolls of representative offices or branches of economic, cultural or other professional organizations of foreign countries; and Vietnam-based non-governmental organizations.
• C: shall be granted to foreigners on temporary residence in Vietnam for other purposes.