Like visiting any countries, one of the most important things that you need to notice when travelling Vietnam is your visa. In almost all situations, visitors often just stay in Vietnam within the valid duration of their visa. However, sometimes, travelers would like to be in the country longer than their visa’s validity. Or because of unexpected reasons, visitors overstay in Vietnam or lose their passport. So, what should you do in these situations? Below information about the updated Vietnam visa extension regulations in 2020 will be some suggestions to figure out the issues.
1. What should you do to stay in Vietnam longer than your visa’s validity?
When your Vietnam visa is going to expire but you still want to stay in Vietnam because of some arising plans, getting your visa extended is necessary in order to reside in Vietnam legally.
Vietnam visa extension is a seal or a stamp pasted in foreign visitors’ passports by Vietnam Immigration Department. Therefore, one of the indispensable requirement for getting a visa extended is the original passport of applicants. Normally, applicants can be also required information about your temporary residence address in Vietnam. Besides, basing on visa type like tourist or business visa, applicants may need to pepare other specific documents. Please contact us to be assisted.
Because an original passport of applicant is required for getting Vietnam visa extension, this procedure cannot be done online like getting visa on arrival. However, it is still very simpy to get a visa extended with a few steps as below:
- Contact us via email or our hotline number, advise us your nationality, visa type, port of arrival, visa’s expiration date, the duration that you want to extend and the city where you are staying in Vietnam to be consulted about visa extension fee, requirements and processing time. Normally, it takes 5-7 business days to process.
- Submit required document and visa extension fee to our office in Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City.
- Get passport back with a visa extension result after processing time.
Vietnam visa extension cost depends on many features including information about your nationality and your visa. Moreover, visa fee often changes according to admendment in immigration regulation of Vietnam Immgration Department. For specific situation, plese contact us to be assisted.
2. What should you do if you overstay in Vietnam?
According to the regulation of Vietnam Immigration Department, all situations of overstaying in Vietnam is illegal, and foreign people will be penalized for this action. Besides the fine fee, those people who overstay in Vietnam from 15 days upward may be put in the list which is restricted to enter Vietnam.
For those people who overstay in Vietnam, in order to leave the country, visitors need to apply for Vietnam exit visa. Like the procedure of getting visa extension, exit visa cannot be done online as the original passport of visitor is required.
- Submit your original passport to our office in Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City
- Pay the fine for your overstaying and the cost of exit visa
- Wait for visa result from 5 to 7 business days
- Get passport back with exit visa and leave Vietnam
According to the policy of Vietnam Immigration Department, the longer time foreign people overstay in Vietnam, the higher fine will be required. At present, the minimum fine is 750,000 Vietnam Dong for the overstaying duration from 1 to 3 days. About the cost of getting exit visa, it depends on many feature, so before applying for the visa, visitors should contact us in advance, advise us your nationality and visa details . Then, we can give you exact information about the cost and how to get an exit visa for your situation.
Normally, exit visa is valid for 2 to 3 days from the issuing date. Therefore, applicant needs to notice and exit before the expiration date.
3. What should you do if you lose your passport in Vietnam?
Passport can be seen as the most important document when you travel to any country in general and travel to Vietnam in particular. However, due to unexpected reason, some travelers lose their passport. In Vietnam, what should you do in this situation?
Right after relizing your passport is lost, traveler should go to the local police station to declare your problem and get a losing passport confirmation. The next step that you should do is to contact the Embassy of your country in Vietnam to apply for a new passport/ an emergency passport/ or a travel document. If your country has not established any embassy in Vietnam, you also can contact the nearest Embassy to be assisted.
Once having a passport/ emergency passport, you can apply for an exit visa in order to leave Vietnam. In this case, the requirement for getting exit visa includes:
- A losing passport declaration confirmed by local police.
- Your new passport/ emergency/ temporary passport or travel document
- Diplomatic not issued by the Embassy of your country (this document is granted together with your new passport)
In order to get an exit visa issued, you can send us these requirement and pay visa fee. The cost of getting exit visa for those people lose passport in Vietnam is about USD 100 upward. This fee will be higher if visitors overstay in Vietnam. In addition, for citizens of India, Egypt, China, Israel, South Korea, Central East countries, and African countries, the fee is different. For specific advice, please kindly contact us. Five to seven business days since submitting requirement and payment, you will receive passport back with an exit visa that allows you to leave Vietnam.
In general, visa and passport are the two important things visitors should keep them carefully when travelling to Vietnam or any country. Furthermore, you also should notice to your visa’s valid duration and extend it on time to avoid overstaying.
For any further information about updated regulation about Vietnam visa extension in 2020, please feel free to contact us.
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