Vietnam visa for Indian expats in Hong Kong

Living abroad in Hong Kong as an Indian expat, you definitely get visa to Vietnam without coming back to India to process visa at the Vietnam Embassy in New Delhi.

What is Vietnam visa on arrival? In general definition, visa on arrival means that you can apply or collect visa when you show up at the airport, however each country has its own different procedure to get it. With Vietnam visa on arrival, you have to apply online to obtain a visa approval letter before flying to Vietnam. Your visa is stamped by the Immigration Officer at the airport once you present this visa letter

Visa on arrival requirement: In order to get visa on arrival, you have to meet two important conditions as bellows:

1. Having a passport which has at least 6 month validity since your physical entry date. If your passport has less than 6 month validity, you go to check with your airlines to confirm that you can get on board with this passport or not. In some case, airlines still allow you to get on a plane as long as you have a visa approval letter.  If your passport is running out of page for visa or no page for visa stamping, loose-leaf visa is granted to you on arrival. 
2.  Visa on arrival is only accepted if you travel and enter Vietnam by airplane. In other words, visa approval letter is not allowed you to enter if you take a bus or enter by cruise into Vietnam. Yet, with visa approval letter, you can take visa stamped at International Airports of Vietnam.

How to get visa approval letter for each type of visa 

• Tourist visa: You can visit our website at http://vietnamvisavoa.com/apply-vietnam-visa-on-arrival/ to fill out your visa application form online or send your passport copy to our email at Vietnamvisavoa@gmail.com. After 2 working days since your information is fully provided and payment for visa fee is made, you will get receive a visa approval letter for tourist purpose.  
• Business visa: You can apply for Vietnam business visa with or without a Vietnamese counterpart or sponsor.  You don’t need to fill out visa application form online, all thing you will do is to send your passport copy to our email with your tentative arrival date.  In case you have a company in Vietnam to sponsor you, please submit us that company’s business license copy. It takes 5-7 working days to process your business visa request. 
• Family/friend visiting visa: If you are invited by friend/relatives to visit Vietnam, you can get tourist visa which absolutely work out for this purpose.  

How to get visa stamped at the airport:

Once getting off your flight, you will go straight to the Immigration Area and submit your documents as bellows:

• A copy of your visa approval letter
• Vietnamese visa application form
• 01 passport sized photo
• Stamping fee in cash which is paid according to your type of visa (25USD for 1 month or 3 month single visa, 50USD for 1 month or 3 month multiple visa, 95USD for 6 month and 135USD for 1 year multiple visa)
• Your original passport
• You have to wait in a queue in front of Immigration Desk to get visa stamped. 

Visa service: there are two compulsory fees including visa service fee and stamping fee.

• Visa service fee: Visa fee is required to pay to process visa approval letter which is issued by the Immigration Department. This fee is changed according to a number of applicants or type of visa. You will pay visa service fee online with your credit/debit card after filling our visa application form.

• Stamping fee: Stamping fee is paid in cash on arrival. No payment card is accepted, therefore please prepare exact amount of stamping fee as regulated. This fee is highly recommended to pay in US Dollars to avoid low exchange even though other currencies are still accepted. 

Should you have any questions or inquires about Vietnam visa on arrival for Indian citizen, please feel fee to ask us at Vietnamvisavoa@gmail.com or visit our website: http://vietnamvisavoa.com/

      

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Prons and cons of Vietnam visa on arrival

Prons of visa on arrival

No.1: Straight-forward and easy online procedure

You just need to fill out your information line at http://vietnamvisavoa.com/apply-vietnam-visa-on-arrival/, then pay online visa service. Your visa approval letter is processed and sent straight to your email after 2 working days. On arrival you will show your visa approval letter to get visa stamped on your passport.

No.2: There is no risking of sending your original passport

There is no guarantee that your original passport wont be lost  when sending it to the Vietnam Embassy. With visa on arrival, only copy of passport is required to submit by email and you take your passport along with you to the Vietnam airport to get visa stamped.

No.3: Quick and professional assistance

With our strong commitment on service, we are assured to accompany with clients and timely resolve all problems they might cope up with

No.4: Time and money saving time

It is very inconvenient to go to the Vietnam Embassy if you are living far away from the Embassy. But the what is worse is that you have to wait about 2 working days to collect your passport back from the Embassy. When it comes to visa on arrival, you go no where except for accessing to the website: http://vietnamvisavoa.com/ , fill out your information and receive your visa approval letter after 2 working days.

Cons of visa on arrival

No.1: Being accepted if travelling by airlines

Visa on arrival is only accepted if you travel to Vietnam by airlines. Be entering by road or sea, you have to apply visa in advance at the Vietnam Embassy in your home country or any where is the nearest to your place.

No.2: Waiting a queue at the airport

Another cons of visa on arrival is you have to spend your time to wait in a queue to get visa stamped.

No.3: Sharing letter with some people you do not know about.

There is very common to see other people’s names shown on your visa approval letter as the Immigration Department has to receive and process the hundreds of visa requests everyday. As the result, they will have to group several applicants whose visa requests are submitted at the same time.  

We have all solutions for such cons, please contact us at Vietnamvisavoa.com or send email at vietnamvisavoa@gmail.com

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Vietnam visa on arrival for Indian citizens

Getting visa to a country is always most important part of your trip. It is really stressful and heart-breaking if you are denied to enter a country you wish to visit. Luckily there are some beautiful countries accept visa on arrival for Indian citizen including Vietnam. Being an Indian passport holder, what should you do to obtain Vietnam visa on arrival?

Visa procedure: You just go to our website at: http://vietnamvisavoa.com/apply-vietnam-visa-on-arrival/ to fill out your details and pay online for service fee. After 2 working days, we will send a visa approval letter to your email and then you will print out this letter to take along with you to the Vietnam airport. Your visa is stamped on your passport after you present visa approval letter at the Immigration Desk on arrival.

Processing time: it takes 2 working days as standard time for tourist visa processing. Urgent or super urgent processing is still available.

Visa service: there are two compulsory fees including visa service fee and stamping fee.

Documents need to be submitted on arrival including:

•  A copy of your visa approval letter
•  Vietnamese visa application form
•  01 passport sized photo
• Stamping fee in cash which is paid according to your type of visa (25USD for 1 month or 3 month single visa, 50USD for 1 month or 3 month multiple visa, 95USD for 6 month and 135USD for 1 year multiple visa)
• Your original passport

After getting your passport back, you should carefully check your visa to make sure that you have a correct visa. Once you are granted a visa on you hand, let explore Vietnam by your own way.

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How to apply Vietnam visa in UAE

If you are UAE’s citizen or just residing in UAE, there are two legal ways to obtain Vietnam visa as bellows:

Visa on arrival: Visa is issued at the Vietnam’s airport

• How does it work: You just go to our website at: http://vietnamvisavoa.com/apply-vietnam-visa-on-arrival/ to fill out applicant’s details and pay online for service fee. After 2 working days, we will send a visa approval letter to your email, then you will print out this letter to take along with you to the Vietnam airport. Your visa is stamped on your passport after you present visa approval letter at the Immigration Desk on arrival.
• Processing time: it takes 2 working days as standard time for visa processing. Urgent or super urgent processing is still available.
• Visa service: there are two compulsory fees including visa service fee and stamping fee.

Visa issued at the Vietnam Embassy

• How to apply: You need travel to the Vietnam Embassy in person to apply visa, then submit your original passport, visa application form (which is used at the Embassy), 01 passport sized photo and visa fee (which is depend on each Embassy).
• Processing time: It takes you 4 or 5 working days to process visa at the Vietnam Embassy. Once you collect visa, you have to check deliberately your visa before leaving the Embassy.
• For further information, please visit the Vietnam Embassy by following its address as bellows: 

Embassy of Vietnam in Dubai, UAE

Address: Villa 0101, 27th str., sector 24, Al Mushrif area, Abu Dhabi, the UAE

Phone: + 971.2.449 6710

Fax: + 971.2.449 673

Email: vnconsul@emirates.net.ae

           

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How does Vietnam visa on arrival work?

To apply Vietnam visa on arrival, there are two separate steps you have to fulfill to completely get visa at the airport as listed bellows:

1.    Before flying to Vietnam

By easily accessing to our website at http://vietnamvisavoa.com/apply-vietnam-visa-on-arrival/, spend few minutes to fill out your visa application form online and pay for visa service fee depending visa type you choose. After 2 working days, you check your email to download your visa approval letter.  No worries, if you want an express service,  1 working day, 4 working hours or even 2 working hour services are available to get visa letter in short notice.

Sample of visa approval letter

Just print out and take this letter along with you to check in at your airport. Your boarding is denied by the airlines if you don’t have either visa on your passport or visa approval letter in hand. Please keep in mind otherwise you have to pay very high processing fee in case of emergency, especially at weekend or holidays.

2. Upon arrival airport

On arrival in Vietnam, the applicants will get their visa stamped on the passport after doing some following steps:

Landing visa area

• Presenting and submitting your valid passport, hard copy of visa approval letter, Vietnamese visa application form with 1 passport sized glued on, stamping fee paid in cash to the Immigration Officer.
•  Getting your visa stamped on your passport
•  Checking your visa information before leaving. 

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Questions and Answers about Vietnam visa on arrival

As you may know, visa regulation is various from country to country then it is necessary to know about specific guidance before we submit a visa request. This will help you to avoid mistakes that cost your 💲💲💲 and take your time.

🔔🔔🔔DO NOT APPLY FOR YOUR VIETNAM VISA IF YOU HAVE NOT KNOWN ABOUT THESE:

Question: After my Vietnam visa approval letter is issued, how long does it last for?
Answer: Your visa approval letter will last for 1 month, 3 months, 6 months or 1 year depend upon the visa type that you apply for. And the visa will come into effect since the entry date that you note in the visa application.

Question: What if I change my arrival date to Vietnam?
Answer: You can change your arrival date to Vietnam however, there are 2 cases:
You enter Vietnam earlier than your registered entry date; you need to apply for a new visa.
2. You enter Vietnam later than your registered entry date; you still can use the current Vietnam visa approval letter but you must make sure that you leave Vietnam before the visa expires.

Question: I have got the Vietnam visa approval letter but I didn’t use it, now it expires, I want to visit Vietnam, and can I use that visa letter for this time?
Answer: No you cannot us the expired visa approval letter to visit Vietnam. You must submit a new visa request.

Question: I don’t know excact my entry and exit date to Vietnam. What should I write on the visa applications?
Answer: In case you do not know for sure about your entry and exit date when you submit Vietnam visa request, it is possible to write tentative dates. Accordingly, your visa will start on the arrival date which you note on the form and you can enter and exit Vietnam at any time within your visa validity.

If you need any other information, do contact us at Vietnamvisavoa.com or email us at Vietnamvisavoa@gmail.com

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5 BIG MISTAKES ON VISA ON ARRIVAL

#1: Don’t do anything online for visa on arrival: For those who believe that applying visa on arrival to Vietnam is similar to visa on arrival for some South-East Asian countries such as Thailand, Cambodia or Laos, be aware if you don’t want to miss out your flight to Vietnam. Applying for visa approval letter online beforehand is what you have to do first when it comes to Vietnam visa on arrival. Otherwise, you will waste a huge amount of money for booking another flights or pay expensive fee at the Vietnam airport.

#2: Enter any borders with visa on arrival

That is very awesome to travel Vietnam with Cruise but it is awful if you think that visa on arrival is accepted at sea border. According to the Immigration Law, visa on arrival is exclusively applicable to air travel.

What should I do if I enter by road or sea? You have to directly apply visa at the Vietnam Embassy in your country or any which is the nearest your place.

#3: Arrival date

There is a general misconception that your visa is valid since the date you physically enter Vietnam. It is totally wrong, because your visa validity is granted according to your arrival date filled out on your visa application which is submitted to the Immigration Department.  

#4: Passport validity

Passport validity is as important as your visa validity when applying visa on arrival. So, make sure that you have a passport in your hands which has at least 6 month validity beyond your actual travel date.

#5: Visa extension

Visa extension is the best choice for those who want to prolong your duration in Vietnam; however, it is not the best for all cases because of its costly fee, time-consuming and inconsistent policy on visa extension.

In order to make your trip flexible and more fun, you should get 3 month visa instead of just applying for 1 month visa.

We hope that you read carefully and learn from mistakes above to avoid any problems so that you enjoy fully time in Vietnam.

Please raise your voice if you have any questions to ask or story to share with us at Vietnamvisavoa@gmail.com or access our website: Vietnamvisavoa.com

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