Mar 31, 2014 in Visa News

Vietnam visa for Ethiopia passport holders

Question:

I am student holding Ethiopia passport. Kindly advise the procedure to apply for Vietnam visa for Ethiopia citizens

Answer:

It is necessary for Ethiopia passport holder to have a visa in order to be allowed to travel to Vietnam. Before applying for a visa, Ethiopia passport holders are advised to read the necessary listed notices below.

1. Requirements to apply for Vietnam visa for Ethiopia passport holders

For Ethiopia passport holders wishing to apply for a visa to Vietnam, you should check your passport validity and number of blank passport pages first. As Vietnam Immigration law regulates that foreigners in general and Ethiopia passport holders in particular wishing to enter Vietnam for tourist or business purpose need a passport with 6 month validity at least. In addition, the passport page has 2 blank ones for sticking a visa Immigration seal.

2. Steps to get Vietnam visa for Ethiopia passport holders

Currently, Ethiopia passport holders can get visa for Vietnam at Vietnam Embassy or at Vietnam airport. Getting visa at the Embassy is just recommended for person travelling to Vietnam not by air. As the Embassy of Vietnam has not been set up in Ethiopia, to get visa by this way applicant should find information of the nearest Vietnam Embassy in your country, first. Then, applicants should contact with staff in charge of the Embassy to get adequate required documents, Vietnam visa fee and the processing time to get the visa as well. Normally, the required documents include the invitation letter of Vietnam Immigration Department and the original passport. To get this visa type, applicants need to visit the Embassy in person to apply these documents. Please do note that many visa requests of Ethiopia passport holders have been rejected by the Embassy of Vietnam. Thus applicants should check carefully with the Embassy to make sure that you can get visa.

In case, Ethiopia citizens are going to visit Vietnam by air, applying online for a visa is highly recommended. Using online way to get visa, surely the applicants can get visa to Vietnam in the most convenient way and the shortest processing time. Ethiopia citizens just need to complete Vietnam Visa application online first. Then, applicant should make payment for visa approval fee via Paypal, Onepay, Western Union or Bank Transfer. Vietnam Government needs 3 working days to issue the Vietnam visa approval letter for Ethiopia passport holders, thus applicants should arrange your time to apply for a visa to Vietnam on time. The letter will be sent to your registered email. After getting the issued letter, applicants just need to print the letter out. Upon on arrival at Vietnam airport, applicants show a hard copy of the letter, your original passport to get stamped visa.

3. Available types of Vietnam visa for Ethiopia passport holders

Presently, there are 2 types of Vietnam visa depends on purpose of entering Vietnam: Vietnam tourist visa and Vietnam business visa. Thanks to diplomatic between Vietnam and Ethiopia, Ethiopia passport holders can apply for both tourist and business visa. For tourist visa, the validity of visa lasts 1 month at the longest. With this visa type, the applicants can stay in Vietnam no more than 30 days. And for business visa, the visa lasts from 1 month to 3 months. Both tourist and business visa can be extended or renewed in case Ethiopia citizens want to stay longer than in Vietnam. By extension or renewal visa, applicants can last your duration on Vietnam 3 months more for each one time. And you can request to extend or renew your visa 3 or 4 continuous times. To extend or renew the visa, simply applicants just need to send the scan copy of your passport page stamping all Vietnam visa to our email support@evietnamvisa.com. As our support team need to check carefully for all Vietnam visa extension or renewal cases before giving detailed information on extension fee and processing time. As Vietnam visa extension or renewal fee is various depending on each case. In addition, it takes from 7 to 10 working days to extend or renew the visa. Thus, passport holders should do extend or renew about 1 week before your visa will be expired. One of the most important thing foreigners should remember that you should avoid overstaying in Vietnam. Your name will be noted in the black list of Immigration if it occurs.

4. Vietnam visa cost for applying Vietnam visa for Ethiopia passport holders

Vietnam visa fee for Ethiopia passport holders depends on the way that applicant choose to get visa to Vietnam. If the applicants want to get visa by yourself at Vietnam Embassy, the visa fee is various. It depends upon the Embassy where you get visa.

In case, Ethiopia passport holders apply online for a visa to Vietnam. There is no hidden fee. The fee depends upon kind of your requested Vietnam visa type. For 1 month single visa, the fee costs USD 240/ person. For other kind of Vietnam visas, including 1 month multiple visa, 3 month single and multiple visa type, you are charged USD 290/ person. Please do note that the fee is Vietnam visa approval fee charged by the Immigration Department of Vietnam and it is paid online way before getting using Vietnam visa approval letter. Arriving to Vietnam airport, you need to pay stamping fee in cash in USD is highly recommended to the officer there to get stamped official visa onto your passport. The applicants should prepare USD 45/person for single entry visa (1 month or 3 month); USD 65/person for multiple entry visa of no more than 29 days; USD 95/person for multiple entry visa of more than 29 days and less than 90 days.

For further information related to Vietnam visa for Ethiopia passport holders, please do not hesitate to contact us via email support@evietnamvisa.com or hotline +(84) 943 25 25 52. We will assist you at our best