Common mistakes may happen to e-visa Vietnam 2019

1. Delayed delivery
Normally, e-visa will be delivered within 3 working days. Sometime, your visa approval may take up 1 week or more. In this case, you should think about the posibility that your e-visa application is rejected by the Vietnam Immigration Department. You should check your inbox to make sure that you don’t miss any email form the Vietnam Immigration Department. Otherwise, you will need to contact them via phone or email as soon as possible.
Please note that e-visa is at trial stage and the Vietnam Immigration Department is busy with a mountain of work that their support may not be efficient enough. Please be patient!
If you don’t hear anything from them and you fail to contact them after much effort, you may need another way and Vietnam visa on arrival is highly recommended.

2. Typos or spelling mistake
Once you receive your e-visa from the Vietnam Immigration Department, please double check the information against your passport carefully. You also need to check other important information like the proposed date of arrival, entry port, visa type… to make sure everything is correct. If there is any mistake, please contact the Vietnam Immigration Department as soon as possible to correct it. Any small mistake may cause a serious problem when you checking in.

3. Port of entry changes
You have 28 entry ports including airports, border gates on land and sea ports. You will choose 1 and it could not be changed after e-visa issued.

4. Money refund
If your visa is rejected by the Vietnam Immigration Department, your money will not be refunded.

5. Passport images
You should take a picture of your passport clearly, full page with 2 ICAO lines included. You may see the warning from the Vietnam Immigration Department said: “Passport data image is incorrect”. In this case you will need to take another copy of your passport and resubmit.
The photos and picture of your passport should not be taken at super high quality with too big size. Try to resize the photos to less than 1,024kb before uploading to the visa portal.

6. Payment issues
The Vietnam Immigration Department co-operate with 3rd party to provide the online payment method. The portal sometime is broken and you could not complete the payment with your credit cards or debit cards. In this case you should leave it back and try with another browser later.

7. Download e-visa problem
You got a notification from the system informing that your e-visa completed however you can not download it in PDF. Please try to take a snapshot of the screen and print it. Although the image quality is not good enough, you can explain to the immigration officers at visa desk about the difficulty and you will go through.

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Vietnam visa waiver for French from the 2nd entry onwards

From July 1st 2015 to June 30th 2016, the citizens of France visitors will not need a visa to Vietnam for less than 15 days of stay (more about Vietnam visa exemption). For those who make a plan to stay in Vietnam for a short time (less than 15 days) and do not re-turn to the country before going back home, that is no problem. However, if you schedule a long trip with the return to Vietnam after 1 or 2 weeks, you should give careful consideration to the visa requirement then. Continue reading

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How to obtain 3 months single or multiple Vietnam visa on arrival?

Many people are wondering if 3 months single or multiple entry visa on arrival will take more time to issue than 1 month visa or not?

Regarding this question, we would like to advise that 3 months Vietnam visa on arrival (single or multiple entry) can be issued within 1 to 2 hours (in emergency) or less than 36 hours (in normal).

At present 2014, the applicants can apply for 3 month visa online easily, not too much effort as the visa applied at the local Vietnam Embassy where people have to visit twice – one for documents submission and another for getting back your passport with visa stamp. Vietnam visa on arrival is beneficial for those who is living far away from the Vietnam Embassy or who don’t have much time waiting for their visa approval. Somebody, who are anxious of sending their passport off when applying for Vietnam visa at the embassy always select this way to get 3 months visa instead. Moreover, visa on arrival is the best plan for financial criteria which you can do for your trip to Vietnam, even it is not too much. Continue reading

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How to find the Immigration Counter at Ho Chi Minh City arrival airport?

Finding the Immigration Counter to get visa stamped on your passport is the final steps of Vietnam visa on arrival process.

Once you land on Ho Chi Minh City Airport, you need to go to Immigration Counter at the arrival airport to get visa stamped. All prepared documents (including approval letter, valid passport, 1 passport-sized photo, entry and exit form) and stamping fee will be handed over to the Immigration Officers there. Normally, you have to wait in line for a few minutes before having your name called by the officers. Please make sure that all above documents are ready when your turn comes. Continue reading

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How Belgians citizens living in UK apply for Vietnam visa?

Vietnam immigration policy regulated that all Belgians citizens do need a visa to enter Vietnam for leisure or business purposes. From United Kingdom, Belgians applicants may have 2 options to get a visa to Vietnam: getting a visa at the Vietnam Embassy in United Kingdom or applying for a Vietnam visa online. Vietnam visa online (known as e-visa or visa on arrival) seems to be the easiest way for Belgians citizens to get a visa for Vietnam if they want to avoid the complicated procedures and bureaucracy.

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Emergency Vietnam visa from Incheon International Airport

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Today,  many people fly into Vietnam from Incheon International Airport (South Korea) for vacation or business trip. Vietnam visa is one of very important thing they should prepare in advance if they don’t want to miss their trip. However, some people think that they can get Vietnam visa on arrival once they land on Vietnam without any processed paperwork. That is NOT true! Your trip might be end up with delaying the flight or waiting at the airport until the visa is approved. Some airlines allows its passengers boarding the flight without checking visa approval letter beforehand while the others do check carefully. If you don’t have an approval letter you might be denied to board the flight. Even you can get on board you might be expelled as soon as landing on Vietnam. Continue reading

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Vietnam visa on arrival for Sri Lankans living in Switzerland

Vietnam immigration policy regulated that all Sri Lankan citizens do need a visa to enter Vietnam for leisure or business purposes. From Switzerland, Sri Lankan applicants may have 2 options to get a visa to Vietnam: getting a visa at the Vietnam Embassy in Switzerland or applying for an online visa. Vietnam online visa (known as e-visa or visa on arrival) seems to be the easiest way for Sri Lankan citizens to get a visa for Vietnam if they want to avoid the complicated procedures and bureaucracy.

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The differences between e-visa and traditional Vietnam visa application


Vietnam e-visa provided by
www.e-vietnamvisa.com (known as visa on arrival or online visa or landing visa) is a kind of electronic visa has put into use for nearly 10 years while traditional Vietnam embassies visa has been worked for decades. There are some differences between 2 types of visa that the foreigner might learn before making a trip to Vietnam. Continue reading

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