Dutch citizens can now enter Vietnam with an e-visa
Travelers to Vietnam with a Dutch passport can apply online for an e-visa for the country in Southeast Asia from 4 January.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam decided last month to add the Netherlands to the countries to which this scheme applies. The e-visa for Vietnam can be applied for at the website of the Vietnamese Immigration Service by filling out an application form, and paying the visa in advance (currently USD 25) according to the instructions on the website. The applicant is then given an individual code to check the status of the application on the website and to print the E-visa when it is issued.
The Vietnamese Immigration Service can issue an e-visa for a stay of up to 30 days with a single entry. For a longer stay or a visa for multiple entry, the visa must still be applied for at the Vietnamese embassies or consulates. The e-visa is valid for 28 international border crossings, including Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City airports. View the list of border crossings where you can enter Vietnam with an e-visa on the website.
The Vietnamese authorities are responsible for these procedures and issuing the visa. If you have any questions, please contact the Vietnamese immigration service or the Vietnamese embassy in the Netherlands.
Whether many people benefit from it depends mainly on the payment options, which I do not see listed.
I think you will get that if you have taken step 1, mailing a few passport pages. But that's where I get stuck, I'm wearing glasses on my passport photo and the Vietnamese don't allow that.
Quickly checked whether our Flemish readers can also go, unfortunately not yet.
Those who can include the Dutch, Germans, Luxembourgers, British, Spaniards, Italians, Norwegians, Hungarians, and a number of other European countries plus many other countries (China, Japan, Kazakhstan< Burma/Myanmar, etc.).
Source: https://evisa.xuatnhapcanh.gov.vn/web/guest/trang-chu-ttdt
Thai, Laotians etc. can visit Vietnam visa free for 30 days.
Been traveling to Vietnam with an e-visa for years, don't know what the difference is now
Perhaps you used the services of one of the websites listed here?
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WARNING ON APPLYING VISA ONLINE (PAYMENT MADE ONLINE) TO GET VISA ON ARRIVAL:
– We would like to announce that the following website are not legitimate:
http://vietnam-embassy.org, http://myvietnamvisa.com, http://vietnamvisacorp.com, http://vietnam-visa.com, http://visavietnam.gov.vn, http://vietnamvisa.gov.vn, http://visatovietnam.gov.vn, http://vietnam-visa.gov.vn, http://www.vietnam-visa.com, http://www.visavietnamonline.org, http://www.vietnamvs.com, and other websites which may exist.
– The Embassy of Viet Nam in the Dutch have recently received many feedbacks from foreign nationals on the visa online service provided by above-mentioned websites.
– The Embassy holds no responsibility for any visa application for Viet Nam provided by these services. Also, the embassy does not provide any visa on arrival service.
In order to avoid any risks that may arise when boarding flights or at ports of entry in Viet Nam due to possible miscommunication, travelers are strongly recommended to apply with the Vietnamese Embassy in the Dutch to get visas before leaving IN PERSON OR BY POST.
And what about the Belgians? Can we not do this via an e-visa?
I think you should ask the Vietnamese and not here.
I have been traveling to surrounding countries with an eVisa for years
also to Vietnam, nothing new, but you have to have the right websites otherwise you pay too much
The e-visa is different from the option that existed until recently to apply for a 'visa on arrival' via commercial websites – see Fransamsterdam's response. In the latter case, you first had to get that visa upon arrival, now you can go straight through passport control.
I once read that all countries of the EU, including Eastern Europe, can visit the country for free on a 30-day tourist visa, except for the Benelux and Switzerland. If this is correct, I would like to ask the Dutch, Belgian and Swiss ambassadors to visit Vietnam together and to arrange a free tourist visa for these countries as well.
My thanks in advance, on behalf of the entire Dutch people.
Greetings Gerrit
Then you didn't read or remember that correctly. According to the Vietnamese embassy (in the UK), British, Germans, French, Italians and Spaniards are exempt (visa exemption) for a stay of up to 15 days. The other Europeans do not. And for a holiday of 3-4 weeks, all Europeans (including French and Germans) must therefore have a visa.
“NOTICE NO. 3/17
Until 30 June 2018, visa is not required for British, French, German, Italian and Spanish citizens with passport having at least six-month validity traveling to Viet Nam for up to 15 days for all purposes.”
So most of us need a visa. The Dutch can now apply for an official e-visa for this, but Belgians cannot. Which European countries?
The following countries can apply for a 30-day e-Visa:
7. Bulgaria
13. Czech Republic
14. Denmark
15. finland
16. France
17. Germany
18. Greece
19. Hungary
21. Ireland
22. Italy
26. Luxembourg
29. Netherlands
31. New Zealand
31. Norway
36. Romania
38. Slovakia
39. Spain
40. Sweden
43. United Kingdom
Sources:
- http://vietnamembassy.org.uk/index.php?action=p&ct=Notice3_2017
- https://evisa.xuatnhapcanh.gov.vn/web/guest/trang-chu-ttdt and then there the country list (PDF).
Well that's good news because I'm now applying for a really old-fashioned visa for Russia that will cost me around 120 euros in total for a few days and a lot of time.
And if I hadn't outsourced going to the embassy, it would have cost me a lot more time, so these are very good developments for the traveler.