I. VISA AND CUSTOMS

1. CUSTOMS

 

Customs procedures in Vietnam are quick and simple. To enter and exit Vietnam, visitors are required to fulfill the arrival - departure declaration

 

Customs Information:

 

1.- Passengers are given duty free allowance for not more than 1.5 liters of liquor with above 22 degrees of concentration of alcohol and 2 liters of liquor below 22 degrees of concentration of alcohol; 400 cigarettes; 100 cigars; 500 gram of raw tobacco.

 

- Other items which are allowed in accompanying baggage are duty free with value not over VND 5,000,000.

- Passengers bringing goods exceeding the amount as above stated are required to fill in the declaration form No.HQ/2002-PMD and pay duty (ies) according to Vietnamese laws.

 

2. Passengers who goods are not subject to customs declaration on page 4, 5 (For customs declaration) do not have to declare.

 

2. VISA PROCEDURES

 

Most visitors to Vietnam need a visa to enter the country. Visas are exempted for the citizens of the countries, which have signed a bilateral or unilateral visa exemption agreement with Vietnam, tourist visa may be valid for 15 to 30 days

 

Customs Information

 

Tourist visa can only be obtained in Vietnamese embassies, consulates abroad. Otherwise, you can get a visa at the border gates if you are invitees of some Vietnamese competent organs or you are travelling on a package tour organized by Vietnamese travel companies. To apply for a visa, the requirements are as follows:

 

· Entry permit form (which can vary from one Vietnamese embassies or consulate abroad to another) - There are two categories of this form: for foreigners and for Vietnamese overseas.

· Two photos (4cmx6cm or 3cmx4cm)

· Original passport

· Visa fees

 

You should send your application and photos to a Vietnamese embassy or consulate abroad, which is most convenient to you. On your requirement, the reply will be returned by post (you must provide stamped envelopes with your name and address).

 

It is easier to get your visa from a Vietnamese travel agency. The necessary information to the travel agency includes:

 

- Full name:

- Birthday and place of birth:

- Nationality:

- Job:

- Number of your passport:

- Entry and exit dates:

- Country you plan to receive your entry visa from the Vietnamese embassies or consulates:

- Vietnamese overseas are required to provide more information:

- Year and reason to leave Vietnam:

- Leave Vietnam by means:

- Full names and addresses of relations in Vietnam:

 

3. WHO NEED VISA TO VIET NAM?

 

Only citizens of certain countries can visit Vietnam without an entry visa (valid for visit within 30 days). Those countries include: most ASEAN countries, Korea, Japan & Scandinavians (2005).

 

All other citizens are required to get an entry visa before departure (visa issued prior to departure by Vietnamese Consulates or Embassies) or a pre-approved entry visa (visa is issued on arrival at Vietnam’s International Airports) supplied before arrival in Vietnam.

 

II. VIETNAM VISA TYPE

Tourist visa: A tourist visa is usually valid for 1 month, allowing single or multiple entry.

 

Business Visas: A business visa is usually valid for 3 month, allowing single or multiple entry and the right to work. Getting a business visa has now become cheap and easy, although the prices are about double those of a tourist visa.

 

Student visas: A student visa is usually arranged after your arrival. It's acceptable to enter Vietnam on a tourist visa, enroll in a Vietnamese language course and then apply at the immigration police for a change in status. In reality, the easiest way to do it is to contact a travel company and have them help you make the application.

 

Transit visa (or visa for city visiting): The maximum duration of this type of visa is 5 days. The Immigration Department will issue transit visa for groups in tour, accompanied with a tour guide. The group must have exact itinerary and have guarantee of a travel agency which organizing the tour.

 

III. HOW TO GET AND HOW MUCH?

Visas are required for all nationalities except Thai, Malaysian, Philippine, Laotian, Singaporean, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Russian and Finish.

 

In order to get the Vietnam visa abroad an Approval Letter issued by the Vietnamese authorities can be requested in advance

What is an Approval Letter? It is a document issued by the Immigration Authorities of Vietnam that entitles the holder to apply for the Vietnamese Visa in his/her home country. The Approval Letter works as an invitation from the Government that states the exact dates a person can visit Vietnam within.

How To Get The Approval Letter?

STEP 1 – Forward the Passport details to PINK LOTUS TRAVEL

Requirement to process a visa for you, we need the following information:

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Full Name:

Gender: Female or Male

Date of birth:

Nationality:

Passport Number:

Expire date:

 

VISA REQUEST Type of Visa: ……?…… (1 month, 2 month, 3 month .v….v) – (Single/ multiple)

Processing:…?…… (1 day, 2 days, 3 days)

Date of Arrival:

Telephone number:

Email address:

Fax number:

Purpose Of Visit:

 

PICK UP SERVICES: Yes / No

Enter Fees: Yes / No

Flight No:

Transfer to Hotel: Yes/ No

 

STEP 2 –PINK LOTUS TRAVEL obtains the Visa Approval Letter and sends it via e-mail to the clients or the travel agencies abroad

STEP 3  Getting the visa in your home country

 

Passengers go to the Vietnamese Embassy in their home country, bring the passport together with the Approval Letter sent by PINK LOTUS TRAVEL and pay the fee on spot in order to get the Vietnam Visa. Fees may vary from one country to another.

Upon passenger’s arrival to the airport they get the Vietnam visa on their passports (25USD/person to be paid by passengers at the airport).

 

VISA UPON ARRIVAL SERVICE

 

Who use this kind of service?

- For all travelers come to Vietnam, who wants to get Visa Quick & Easy

- Those who are living in a certain country where Vietnamese Embassy or Consulates has not been established or too far from their house.

- Those who are in urgent business but have to be in the country of Vietnam as soon as possible.

- You just want to make Vietnam part of a multi-destination trip, then we recommend Visa on Arrival as your best option.

 

What is a ''Visa on Arrival''?: Simple and easy way to obtain your visa. Also very cheap and reliable. No Embassy or Consulate chase down. No passport delivery, no Consulate fee, no return mail fee, emergency processing (within 24 hours) and the like prior to your trip, and is a valid alternative when applying for a tourist visa. The entry visa will be stamped on your passport as you pass through our Immigration checkpoint.

 

We obtain what is called an “Letter of Approval” for you from the Viet Nam Immigration Department. After obtaining the approval for you, we will forward you a copy by fax or email. Copies of the same document will be forwarded on your behalf to Vietnam Immigration checkpoints at International Airports only, so that when you arrive in Viet Nam, the Immigration officers will have those documents on hand and will be able to issue your entry visa expediently.

 

NORMAL PROCESSING: 2 working days

URGENT PROCESSING:  1working day, half a day

If you are now in Vietnam for tourism or business and you want to extend your stay out of your current visa duration, change visa type, renew or extend your visa…The extension or renewal of Vietnam visa is so easy nowadays. What you need is to hand in your passport (not the copied one) to PINK LOTUS TRAVEL – for processing. Standard time is 7 working days. Urgent case can be up to 2 working days.

 

Note:

 

- Tourists can stayover 1 day in Vietnam from expired date of their Vietnam visa. If tourist want to stayover longer, they should be renew or extend Vietnam visa.

- If the tourist stayover 2 days or more in Vietnam (from expired date in Vietnam visa), you will be punish by Vietnam immigration (from $30US/1 day stayover). So, tourist should renew or extend visa if you want to stayover in Vietnam or contact us at sales@pinklotustravel.com or hotline 24/7 0988885552 for the advice.

- Not more than 30 days: for citizens of Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Laos.

- Not more than 15 days: for citizens of Japan and South Korea, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Russian Federation (from 1 Jan 2009).

- French citizens holding valid diplomatic passports are exempt from visa requirements when visiting Vietnam and are allowed to stay for up 3 months at one time or on several visits within six months since their first immigration dates. Vietnamese citizens holding valid diplomatic passports also enjoy similar privileges.

- Citizens of Chile and Vietnam holding valid diplomatic or official passports from one of the two countries are exempt from needing entry, exit and transit visas in the other's territory and are allowed to stay for up 60 days on each visit.

- An agreement on visa exemption for diplomatic and official passport holders signed between Vietnam and the Republic of Paraguay’s governments will take effect as from October 26, 2008 announced the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Under the agreement which was signed on March 8, 2007 in Asuncion, the two countries’ diplomatic and official passport holders whose residence does not exceed 90 days will be exempted from visa.

The agreement will also allow visa exemption throughout the term of office for those who are members of diplomatic missions, consular offices or representatives of international organizations as well as members of their families.

* From 1st September 2007 Overseas Vietnamese and their families will be able to obtain five-year visa exemption certificate...

 

5-YEAR VIETNAM VISA EXEMPTION FOR OVERSEAS VIETNAMESE

Under a decision issued by VietnameseState, from 1st September 2007 overseas Vietnamese will be granted 5-year visa exemption certificate. To get it, they must fulfill some formalities to be granted a visa exemption verification document, which is valid for many times of traveling and valid within five years.

The maximal residency time in Vietnam is 90 days each time. If they want to stay longer, they must ask for visas and fulfill extension formalities in Vietnam.

They have defined three subjects of overseas Vietnamese who will enjoy visa exemption: The people who have Vietnamese nationality; Vietnamese people who hold foreign nationalities; Foreigners who are wives, husbands, children of Vietnamese or Vietnamese who hold foreign nationalities.

A certificate must be obtained by the passport holders for the exemption to be utilized.

In order to be granted visa exemption certificates at Vietnamese representative offices abroad, overseas Vietnamese need to submit one of three following documents: A document that proves they are ethnically Vietnamese; A guarantee by overseas Vietnamese associations based in the country where they are residents of or by a Vietnamese citizen and a document by authorized foreign agencies certifying that they are ethnically Vietnamese.

Husbands, wives and children of Vietnamese people living abroad will also need to submit documents that prove their relationship to the Vietnamese member of their immediate family.

The Committee for overseas Vietnamese has sent 200,000 visa exemption certificates to Vietnamese embassies World wide.

For formalities to get the Certificate of Visa Exemption please contact us at sales@pinklotustravel.com

 

*Required documents attached to application for visa exemption certificate:

1. For Vietnamese people are residing abroad, profile comprises:

a. 01 application form for visa exemption certificate.

b. 02 recent 4 x 6cm photos with white background, straight face, bare head, no colored glasses (01 photo attached to the application form and 01 spare photo)

c. Foreign passports or equivalent documents with validity of at least 6 months upto date of entry. If the applicant does not have a passport, he/she must submit a permanent resident’s permit  issued by foreign authorities with the validity of at least 6 months upto the date of entry (with attached copy for competent authority to file)

d. One of the following documents (attached copy for competent authority to file) if available:

- A certificate of Vietnamese citizenship;

- A copy or excerpt of the Decision for Recovery of Vietnamese citizenship;

- A copy or excerpt of the Decision for Renunciation of Vietnamese citizenship;

- Certificate of Lost of Vietnamese citizenship;

- A Vietnamese passport (valid or invalid)

- An Identity Card (valid or invalid)

- A Birth Certificate (Copy accepted)

- The latest voter’s card

- A Family Register Book

- A travel document issued before 1975

- An Identity Card issued before 1975

- An Excerpt from Birth Register issued before 1975

- Documents issued by competent foreign authorities if they can prove that the person in question has original Vietnamese citizenship or of Vietnamese origin.

e. In case of not having documents listed at section (d), the following documents could be submitted:

- A guarantee issued by an overseas Vietnamese association from the country of residence (in due form provided)

- A guarantee from a Vietnamese citizen (in due form provided)

The said documents do not need require further certification or verification.

 

2. With holders of foreign passports being wives, husbands, and children of a Vietnamese citizen or Vietnamese residing abroad, the attached file comprises of:

 

a. 01 application form for a visa exemption certificate.

b. 02 recent 4 x 6 cm photos with white background, straight face, bare head, without colored glasses. (01 attached to the application form, 01 spare photo).

c. A foreign passport with validity of at least 6 months upto date of entry (a copy attached for competent authority to file)

d. One of documents proving relationship between wives/husbands/children and the Vietnamese residing abroad (a copy attached for competent authority to file)

- Certificate of Marriage

- Certificate of Birth

- A Certificate of relationship with farther, mother, children;

- Other valid documents as regulated by the Vietnamese Law.

- Decision of Adoption

 

3. The re-issuance or from the second issuance of Certificate of Visa Exemption:

In case of applying for the re-issuance the Certificate of Visa Exemption (due to lost of visa exemption certificate or expired visa exemption certificate or issuance of new passport) at the initial issuing competent authorities, the applicant only needs to submit 01 application form with no certification of Vietnamese residing abroad required.

In case of application for re-issuance of Certificate of Visa Exemption (due to visa exemption certificate lost or expired) not submitted to the initial issuing agency, the applicant is required to submit all the documents as per the procedures applied to first-time issuance of Certificate of Visa Exemption.

To avoid the fuss in waiting time for car rental at the airport after taking a long flight, our airport pick-up service will meet your expectation.

 

Upon arrival you will be welcomed upon leaving the airplane and entering the airport-building by especially assigned welcome staff holding up a sign-board with the guest’s names. The welcome staff will then escort you to the immigration counter to facilitate the paperwork for the entry-procedures and then to the luggage-claim area, collecting your belongings rapidly.

For more information, please contact us at sales@pinklotustravel.com or hotline 24/7 098885552

 

AIRPORT FAST TRACK SERVICE

Most of the times arriving and departing passengers encounter long waiting periods at the immigration counters at the very large and busy Suvarnabhumi international airport. Especially arriving passengers, sometimes accompanied by their families, are tired and impatient to conclude entry procedures as smoothly and quickly as possible. For those departing with a lot of luggage and impatient children such long procedures and waiting queues also demand strong patience.

PINK LOTUS TRAVEL has arranged a special AIRPORT FAST TRACK SERVICE for its guests who wish to avoid such waiting times:

Upon arrival guests will be welcomed upon leaving the airplane and entering the airport-building by especially assigned welcome staff holding up a sign-board with the guest’s names. The welcome staff will then escort the guest(s) to the immigration counter to facilitate the paperwork for the entry-procedures and then to the luggage-claim area, collecting the guest’s belongings and accompanying them through the arrival hall to meet the transportation company

Or

For departing guests, our staff will meet them at the approaching limousine, escort them to the check-in counters (according to security regulations guests have to check in by themselves), then assist them through departure immigration procedures and escort them either to the departure gate or the waiting lounge.

1. Principles

 

You are in Viet Nam and want to get Visa to other country. The common documents may from Embassy to Embassy, so you need come to Embassy where you will exit to get specific document or obtain your visa. Common documents including:

- Invitation letter of your partners or travel agencies.

- Origin passport

- 4x6 cm or 3x4 cm sized photo

- Air ticket

- Vietnamese company's business resolution (if any)

- Tour booking, hotel reservation (if go travelling)

 

2. Asia travel service

Come to our service, only need you send us your original passport and photo

1/ Payment for stamping fee at the airport in U.S. dollars, payment in VND based on the market exchange rate at that time

2/ Service charge payment based on Vietcombank's foreign exchange rate

3/Pax pick up at the airport:

** Tan Son Nhat - Da Nang :  cancellation before 12 hours: 30% cost of ticket will be charged.

** Noi Bai : cancellation before 12 hours: 50% cost of ticket will be charged

4/The price for group will be directly negotiated depending on the amount of passengers

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT VISA PROCEDURE, PLEASE CONTACT US AT: sales@pinklotustravel.com

OR HOTLINE 24/7 0988 885 552

EXEMPTION OF ENTRY VISA TO VIETNAM (Updated on 21th December 2010)

 

No	COUNTRY	TYPE OF PASSPORT				Duration of stay	Date of entry into force
		Diplomatic	Official /Service	Special	Ordinary
1	Afghanistan (Islamic State)	x	x			not stipulated	26-Feb-1988
2	Albania (Republic)	x	x			not stipulated	1-Oct-1956
3	Algeria (People's Democratic Republic)	x	x			90 days	2-Jan-1995
4	Argentina (Republic)	x	x			90 days	13-Nov-1999
5	Azerbaijan	x	x			01 month	21-Aug-2010
6	Bangladesh (People's Republic)	x	x			90 days	10-Jul-1999
7	Belarus (Republic)	x	x			not stipulated	24-Nov-1993
8	Brazil (Federative Republic)	x	x			90 days	8-Jul-2009
9	Brunei Darussalam	x	x		x	14 days	1-Aug-2007
10	Bulgaria (Republic)	x	x			03 months	1-Jun-1966
11	Cambodia (Kingdom)	x	x		x	30 days for ordinary passport	30-Nov-1979               05-Dec-2008
12	Chile (Republic)	x	x			90 days	25-Jun-2005
13	China (People's Republic)	x	x			30 days	15-Mar-1992
14	Croatia (Republic)	x	x			30 days	27-Mar-2010
15	Cuba (Republic)	x	x			not stipulated	31-Aug-1981
16	Czech (Republic)	x				90 days	13-Feb-2000
17	Denmark (Kingdom)	x	x		x	15 days	1-May-2005
18	Dominican (Republic)	x	x			90 days	29-Sep-2007
19	Ecuador (Republic)	x	x	x		90 days	19-Sep-2007
20	Finland (Republic)	x	x		x	15 days	1-May-2005
21	France (Republic)	x				03 months	1-Jul-2005
22	Hungary (Republic)	x	x			90 days	1-Aug-1993
23	India (Republic)	x	x			90 days	23-Mar-1995
24	Indonesia (Republic)	x	x		x	30 days	19-Sep-1998
25	Iran (Islamic Republic)	x				01 months	1-Jun-1994
26	Iraq (Republic)	x	x			90 days	1-Dec-2001
27	Japan	x	x		x	90 days for Diplomatic and Official passport/15 days for ordinary passport	1-May-2005               01-Jul-2004
28	Kazakhstan (Republic)	x	x			30 days	11-Apr-2010
29	Korea (Democratic People's Republic)	x	x			not stipulated	1-Oct-1956
30	Korea (Republic)	x	x		x	90 days for Diplomatic and Official passport/15 days for ordinary passport	13-Jan-1999               01-Jul-2004
31	Kyrgyzstan (Republic)	x	x			not stipulated	15-Jul-1981
32	Laos (People's Democratic Republic)	x	x		x	30 days	17-Jul-1977               05-Mar-2004
33	Malaysia	x	x		x	30 days	25-Nov-2001
34	Mexico (United States)	x	x			90 days	4-Feb-2002
35	Moldova (Republic)	x	x			90 days	23-May-2003
36	Mongolia	x	x			90 days	6-Feb-2000
37	Montenegro	x	x			90 days	1-Sep-2000
38	Morocco (Kingdom)	x	x	x		90 days	19-Dec-2004
39	Mozambique (Republic)	x	x			90 days	9-Feb-2009
40	Myanmar (Union)	x	x			30 days	11-Aug-1998
41	Nicaragua (Republic)	x	x			not stipulated	14-Mar-1983
42	Norway (Kingdom)	x	x		x	15 days	1-May-2005
43	Pakistan (Islamic Republic)	x	x			90 days	2-Mar-2007
44	Panama (Republic)	x	x	x		90 days	4-Nov-2002
45	Paraguay (Republic)	x	x			90 days	26-Oct-2008
46	Peru (Republic)	x	x	x		90 days	2-Jun-2006
47	Philippines (Republic)	x	x		x	21 days for ordinary passport	1-Apr-2000
48	Romania	x	x			not stipulated	1-Dec-1956
49	Russia (Federation)	x	x		x	90 days for Diplomatic and Official passport/15 days for ordinary passport	20-Feb-1994               01-Jan-2009
50	Serbia	x	x			90 days	1-Sep-2000
51	Singapore (Republic)	x	x		x	90 days for Diplomatic and Official passport/30 days for ordinary passport	10-May-1997               01-Dec-2003
52	Slovak (Republic)	x				90 days	24-Feb-2007
53	South Africa (Republic)	x	x			90 days	23-Jun-2007
54	Spain (Kingdom)	x				90 days	31-Aug-2010
55	Sri Lanka (Democratic Socialist Republic)	x	x			90 days	19-Sep-2003
56	Sweden (Kingdom)	x	x		x	15 days	1-May-2005
57	Switzerland (Confederation)	x				90 days	16-Aug-2009
58	Thailand (Kingdom)	x	x		x	30 days	20-Feb-2004
59	Tunisia (Republic)	x		x		90 days	21-Jan-2009
60	Turkey (Republic)	x	x	x		90 days	7-Jun-2007
61	Ukraine	x	x			90 days	6-Dec-1993
62	Uruguay (Republic)	x	x			90 days	15-Jun-2008
63	Uzbekistan	x				60 days	4-Jun-2010
64	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic)	x	x			90 days	17-Nov-2006

 

EMBASSIES OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES IN VIETNAM

& VIETNAMESE EMBASSIES IN OTHER COUNTRIES