Vietnam visa exemptions

This is now golden chance for visitors to come to our beautiful Vietnam since the Vietnam visa exemption policy has been officially validity. For the development of tourist industry, Vietnamese government has bilateral visa exemption arrangements with 80 countries, including 10 countries from ASEAN. We also has unilateral visa exemption arrangements with 13 countries.

For more details, Vietnam is now implementing a bilateral visa exemption system for citizens have ordinary passports from ASEAN countries, and they also apply similarly to Vietnamese visitors come to these countries for the following periods:

- Citizens of Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia and Indonesia will be exempted visa to Vietnam within 30 days.

- Citizens of Philippins will be exempted visa to Vietnam within 21 days.

-Citizens of Bruney and Mianma will be exempted visa to Vietnam within 14 days.

Moreover, citizens of 80 countries are diplomatic passports and official passports are exempt from visas to Vietnam and vice versa, the duration of stay of each country is specified as follows:

- Within 180 days: French và Slovenia.

-Within 90 days: Argentina, Armenia, Egypt, UAE, Algery , India, Bangladesh, Brazil, Bulgari, Chile, Colombia, Dominica, Germany, El Salvador, Ecuado, Estonia, North Korea, Kuwait, Hungary, Iraq, Italy, Israel, Maroc, Mehico, Modova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Mozambique, South Africa, SriLanka, Tanzania, Spain, Turkey, Poland, Tunisia, Ukraine, Uruguay, Venezuela, Seychelles, Switzerland, Singapore, Slovak.

-Within 60 days: Uzekistan.

-Within 30 days: Azerbaijan, Angola, Croatia, Kazakhstan , Iran, Malaysia, Myanma, Philipin, Thailan.

-Within 14 days: Bruney, Indonesia.

- Exempted throughout the term of service: Albani, Afgannistan , Belarus, Cambodia, Cuba, Laos, Japan, Rumani, South Korea, China.

- Expecially, Kyrgyzstan citizens holding diploma passport and official passport is exempted visa for all purposes to enter Vietnam.

Furthermore, Vietnam unilaterally exempts visa for citizens of these countries:

-Foreigners and Vietnamese citizens who have foreign nationality go to Vietnam through an international border gate and then travel to Phu Quoc Island and stay there less than 15 days  will be exempt from Vietnamese visas. The passport must be valid for at least 45 days. After coming to Phu Quoc, if you want to visit other places or stay in this island for more than 15 days, the Immigration Department will issue Vietnamese visas to visitors in Phu Quoc Island.

-ASEAN Secretariat Officials have any kind of passports are exempted visa to Vietnam within 30 days.

-From 1/1/2015 to 31/12/2019, citizens of Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway have any kind  of passports will be exempted visa to Vietnam within 15 days.

-From 1/7/2015 to 30/6/2017, citizens of Germany, France, Spain, Italy and United Kingdom have any kind of passports will be exempted visa to Vietnam within 15 days.

-From 1/7/2015 to 30/6/2020, citizens of Belarus have any kind of passports will be exempted visa to Vietnam within 15 days.

-Citizens of French or Chilean have the valid Diplomatic passport or Public affairs passport are exempted from Vietnamese visas and are entitled to stay one time or stay multiple times with a total stay of no more than 90 years within 6 months from the date of first entry.

-APEC Business Travel Card (ABTC) holders economies from countries member of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) including Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, China,Hong Kong-China, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Peru, The Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, Thailand and The United States may visit Vietnam for less than 60 days.

Notice that visitors from countries which Vietnam unilaterally exempts visa for, the validity of passport must be at least 06 months and must be at least 30 days from the latest leave from Vietnam.

That means, if citizens of those countries mentioned above in the next time visit Vietnam want to use their visa exemption right, they must wait at least 30 days from their latest leave from Vietnam.

As we can see, the open visa policy of Vietnam will affects positively to the development of our tourist industry at the present time and in the future when there is the increasing of global integration and the need of movement over the whole world. 

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