Visa Updates

For Vietnam Visa: It’s officially announced from 1st July 2015 that British passport holders (both in terms of tourism and business purposes) are now available to enter Vietnam up to 15 days without visa’s requirements. Upon business travelling purpose, customers need to contact a relevant Vietnamese department in order to allocate necessary procedures or licenses. By the way, Vietnam visa is strictly required if travellers wish to stay in Vietnam for a period of 15 days or more, also applied for those who re-enter Vietnam within 30 days of departure. Therefore, please carefully make sure to grasp the suitable Vietnam visa in right travelling purpose. First considerate priority is to get a Vietnam visa through Vietnamese Embassy before travelling. Get a multiple entries visa in case of dual plans to leave and re-enter Vietnam from other countries. As more convenient you may consider, there are legitimate companies that could help to make Vietnam eVisa. Just apply and follow the process visa website provided. Please carefully check the validity of your visa if you wish to overstay in Vietnam. Hence, you will stuck in delaying hassle if your visa validity expired. Source: www.vietnam-immigration.net

Tourists from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain and Italy will continue to be exempted from visa until June 2021, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said at a Government meeting on Thursday. Visa will be waived for tourists coming to Việt Nam from these five countries for another three years (until June 30, 2021) after the visa waiver programme expires at the end of June this year. When the extension expires, Việt Nam would review its unilateral visa exemption policy and re-evaluate its electronic visa pilot, the PM said during a monthly Government meeting in Hà Nội on Thursday. “Extending the visa exemption is definitely something we should opt for, since at the moment, Việt Nam waives visa one-sidedly for only 24 countries – including nine ASEAN countries – while our neighbours are doing more than that,” he said. He also assigned the Ministry of Public Security and Ministry of Foreign Affairs to review and report on the challenges facing electronic visa issuance and on making amendments to the Immigration Law. Visa exemption for tourists from the five Western European countries has helped increase the number of tourists from these markets by 10.1 per cent since it was introduced in mid-2015, according to the Việt Nam Tourism Advisory Board. Source: vietnamnews.vn

From 11 August 2017, Vietnamese passport holders traveling to Chile will be exempted from the visa requirement, and Chileans coming to Viet Nam will enjoy the same story. The new regulation follows the visa waiver agreement signed by the two Governments on 17 October 2016. Accordingly, citizens of the two countries carrying ordinary passports with at least six-month validity will be waived from visa requirements upon entry through international border gates. Their stay must not exceed 90 days from the date of entry. In case of staying more than 90 days, travelers must ask permission from authorities. The regulation is not applicable for entry with the purpose of conducting income-bearing activities. Viet Nam now waives visas for travelers from 23 countries and territories. From this 1 February, the Government started piloting e-visas for citizens of 40 countries and territories in Asia, Europe and America. With e-visas, foreign citizens can enter Viet Nam through 8 airports, 13 road border gates and 7 seaports. Source: https://www.vietnamtourism.com

The E-visa Vietnam program allows foreign citizens of 80 eligible countries that hold a passport valid for at least two (2) months after arrival to Vietnam, to travel to and within the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for up to 30 consecutive days. It is electronically issued; a single entry visa that must be requested at least two (2) working days prior to the departure date. LIST OF COUNTRY THAT ALLOWED VIETNAM E-VISA ISSUING No. ICAO Nation Notes 1 AND Andorra   2 ARG Argentina   3 ARM Armenia   4 AUS Australia   5 AUT Austria   6 AZE Azerbaijan   7 BLR Belarus Visa Exemption of 15 days 8 BEL Belgium   9 BIH Bosnia and Herzegovina   10 BRA Brazil   11 BRN Brunei Visa Exemption of 14 days 12 BGR Bulgaria   13 CAN Canada   14 CHL Chile Visa Exemption of 90 days 15 CHN China (Including Hong Kong and Macau. Not apply for Chinese passport electronic passport - passport number starts with letter E)   16 COL Colombia   17 HRV Croatia   18 CUB Cuba   19 CYP Cyprus   20 CZE Czech Republic   21 DNK Denmark Visa Exemption of 15 days 22 EST Estonia   23 FJI Fiji   24 FIN Finland Visa Exemption of 15 days 25 FRA France Visa Exemption of 15 days 26 GEO Georgia   27 D Germany Visa Exemption of 15 days 28 GRC Greece   29 HUN Hungary   30 ISL Iceland   31 IND India   32 IRL Ireland   33 ITA Italy Visa Exemption of 15 days 34 JPN Japan Visa Exemption of 15 days 35 KAZ Kazakhstan   36 KOR Korea (South) Visa Exemption of 15 days 37 LVA Latvia   38 LIE Liechtenstein   39 LTU Lithuania   40 LUX Luxembourg   41 MKD Macedonia The former Yugoslav of   42 MLT Malta   43 MHL Marshall Islands   44 MEX Mexico   45 FSM Micronesia Federated States of   46 MDA Moldova   47 MCO Monaco   48 MNG Mongolia   49 MNE Montenegro   50 MMR Myanmar Visa Exemption of 14 days 51 NRU Nauru   52 NLD Netherland   53 NZL New Zealand   54 NOR Norway Visa Exemption of 15 days 55 PLW Palau   56 PAN Panama   57 PNG Papua New Guineaư   58 PER Peru   59 PHL Philippines Visa Exemption of 21 days 60 POL Poland   61 PRT Portugal   62 QAT Qatar   63 ROU Romania   64 RUS Russia Visa Exemption of 15 days 65 WSM Samoa   66 SMR San Marino   67 SRB Serbia   68 SVK Slovakia   69 SVN Slovenia   70 SLB Solomon Islands   71 ESP Spain Visa Exemption of 15 days 72 SWE Sweden Visa Exemption of 15 days 73 CHE Switzerland   74 TLS Timor Leste   75 ARE United Arab Emirates   76 GBR United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Visa Exemption of 15 days 77 USA United States of America   78 URY Uruguay   79 VUT Vanuatu   80 VEN Venezuela