How to extend Vietnam visa for Benin citizens?

As stated in Vietnam immigration policy, foreigners’ staying in Vietnam longer than the validity time of your Vietnam visa is an illegal action. Therefore, Benin people who want to stay longer in Vietnam without leaving must extend or renew your Vietnam visa. Those steps on how to extend Vietnam visa for Benin citizens are introduced as below.

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1. Steps to extend Vietnam visa for Benin citizens

Take 4 following steps in order to extend/ renew Vietnam visa for Benin citizens:

   +  Send us your scanned Benin passport containing Vietnam visa pages via email address support@evietnamvisa.com . We will check all the necessary information.

  + Receive the best advice related to extension fee and required document and processing time to extend your Vietnam visa

  +  Submit your original passport to our office 

  +  Get your passport back with a new Vietnam visa from us after a period of time to process.

For Benin citizens, type of Vietnam visa that you can extend is 1 month single/ multiple and 3 months single visa. The processing time as well as fee depends upon some factors namely type of visa Benin citizens want to extend, number of your visa extension as the first extension is the easiest and cheapest. Normally, it will take from 5 days to 10 days to extend Vietnam visa for Benin citizens. Therefore, to avoid any trouble in case your Vietnam visa has been expired while you have not got your passport back, you should have your specific plan to extend your visa.

In fact, the procedure to extend a Vietnam visa is more complicated than procedure to apply for a new Vietnam visa. For this reason, if Benin citizens have chance to leave Vietnam, applying for a new Vietnam visa on arrival when you come back to the country is much better. To apply for a new Vietnam visa, Benin citizens just submit Vietnam visa application, then pay visa approval fee for Benin via OnePay, PayPal, Bank Transfer or Western Union. After 2- 3 working days of pressing time for Vietnam visa, you will receive you visa approval letter. Now the only thing you need to do is bring this approval letter to Vietnam airport when your flight land there to stamp Vietnam visa.

2. The difference between Vietnam visa extension and visa renewal

As mentioned above, Benin people can have a new Vietnam visa stamped by extending or renewing. Both of these two ways help Benin citizens to stay longer in Vietnam without leaving. But still there are some differences between them. Firstly, using Vietnam visa extension, you will get a new seal stamped onto your passport, and with Vietnam visa renewal, you will have a new visa stamped. Secondly, the cost of Vietnam visa renewal fee is more expensive that visa extension fee. Thirdly, if Benin citizens renew your Vietnam visa for the first time, your visa will be extended more easily for the second time. 

For further information on how to extend Vietnam visa for Benin citizens, please contact us via email support@evietnamvisa.com or hotline number (84) 943 25 25 52.