Vietnam Visa On Arrival: The new way to apply for Vietnam Visa from The Vietnam immigration department

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Passengers can apply for a visa within 6 months prior to arrival in Vietnam by applying directly or by post at the Vietnam Embassies in the country where you live. Making a visa at the embassy is the basic way to complete the procedures to Vietnam. It will ensure that you will receive your visa before boarding the plane, and you will be working directly with the government of Vietnam in your country. If you are planning to arrive in Vietnam by AIR at Ho Chi Minh, Hanoi, or Da Nang airport, you can use a more optimized service, Vietnam visa on arrival (VOA). This can solve some problems that foreigners make the Vietnam visa at the embassy encounter.

Must send a passport to the Embassy
Go directly to the nearest embassy or send your application by post, and return to the Embassy for the second time.
Working directly with the Embassy of Vietnam, must follow the instructions of the staff of the Vietnamese diplomatic mission.
The process of applying for visas at Vietnamese Embassies in each country is different, you can take 5-7 working days to get a visa, if your visa application has problems, you have to return to the embassy 2 times.
Additional charges may apply.

Vietnam visa on arrival differ from getting visa at Embassy

Compared with a Vietnamese visa at the Vietnamese Embassy in your country or other country, Vietnam visa on arrival is a legal alternative to obtaining full Vietnam visa and is much simpler and cheaper. Visa on arrival not only brings convenience to customers but also to Vietnam Embassy. They reduce the amount of administrative work by cutting back on the receipt of the application, reading each form, entering information, exporting documents.

Leading to the introduction of Vietnam Visa On Arrival

How to get Vietnam visa on arrival? From 16th June 2014, The Vietnam immigration department released the electronic visa form (online visa application) for visitors to apply for Vietnam Visa. E-visa is also known as the electronic visa or online visa. It is a legal license to allow foreigners to enter the gate and domestic tourism.

The original form of the visa sticker format on the passport. The applicant must apply for visa vietnam at the consulate office filed, pending and come back another day to get. This is the general process for all types of visas that other countries who want to enter Vietnam must pass through identity checks.

However, in this era of globalization as today, when travel demand of the people is increasing, especially for the purpose of sightseeing, the tourists must follow a prolonged process taking time away back and wait to get a visa is an unnecessary inconvenience. To increase competition, many countries have reformed visa forms for this tourist object, leading to the introduction of Vietnam Visa On Arrival (VOA), including Vietnam. At the moment, more than 170 countries could apply for this online Vietnam visa.

How to get Vietnam visa on arrival?

Procedure of applying Vietnam visa on arrival

You go online at Apply Vietnam Visa; fill in secure online visa application form, pay the service fee by credit card or transfer baking and just wait 2 working days (normal processing) or 1 working day ( urgent processing) to receive your visa approval letter via email. After all, you take this letter + your passport + 2 photos + some strong currencies (in Cash) as stamping fee to pick up your visa stamp and visa sticker at Vietnam airport.

Visa approval letter is able to used as a normal Visa when you board the plane.

Upon landing, head to the Landing VISA (VOA) Counter, you must present the following all things in the prepared package to the Immigration officer to get your visa stamped.
(To save your time at the airports, you are recommended to use our airport fast track service)