How To Submit A Vietnam Visa Extension? Procedure For Getting Visa Extension In Vietnam

If you are in Vietnam and want to extend your visa of tourism, business, working, investment or others purposes, you can extend your visa right here in Vietnam without exiting the country and re-entering. If you are able to apply for Vietnam visa extension or visa renewal, you should do so at least 3 days before your current visa expires and your original passport will be kept at immigration department for 1 week for processing. For most nationalities, the procedures of visa extension or visa renewal in Vietnam are very simple and the required documents are also easy to prepare. However, it is also difficult for some special cases. If this is the first time you do visa extension in Vietnam, you should know these below information to get a visa extension easily.

1/ Procedures to do Vietnam visa extension

Procedures and requirements for Vietnam visa extension depend on your current Vietnam visa type, nationality, entry port, entry purpose and length of Vietnam visa extension you wish to process. Therefore, we advise you to contact the nearest immigration department office or visa agency for advice on necessary documents, procedures, and check all options of Vietnam visa extension for your case. Remember that only a limited number of nationalities are eligible to apply for the visa extension in Vietnam and the requirements change accordingly as well.

Here is the whole procedure for Vietnam visa extension you should acknowledge:

Step 1: Finding out the required documents and needs

How to avoid troubles when you apply for visa extension in Vietnam? one of the most important steps in the procedures of applying for the visa extension in Vietnam is clearly know the required documents and visa extension options which you can process. You should provide your current visa type, passport expiry date, visa expiry date, visa entry port, nationality to the Immigration department or visa agency service. After providing these above important information, the Immigration department or visa agency will know clearly about your case and they can advise the most accurate information about the visa extension term.

Step 2: Offering the Visa Extension Proposals and Fees

The Immigration Department or visa agency will confirm all the necessary information that you are interested in so that you can make the decision about which visa extension option is appropriate for your budget, your time, the most importantly for your entry purposes and long-term plan in Vietnam.

How to understand all the things of visa extension in Vietnam and which one is in accordance with Vietnam laws, remember that the extension price varies depending on how many times you have extended your visa, nationality and the information related to your current visa. Therefore, make sure what you provide accuracy. You surely have to submit your passport when doing the visa extension so it will be problem if you provide the wrong information.

For your convenience, you can take a picture of your current visa + immigration entry stamp + passport bio page and send to info@vietnam-evisa.com to get a quote, as well as all details about your Vietnam visa extension case. After that, you will receive the response about the visa extension proposals, fees, procedures, processing time, etc. You may have several options for choosing or only one for extending your visa. However, you will receive the detailed information and useful advice.

Step 3: Confirming the most appropriate solution and providing the documents by yourself

Once your decision is made for Vietnamese visa extension, the next step is submitting the required documents. You can prepare the documents by your own and come to Immigration department for submission or provide them to the visa agency to process. In case you process through visa agency, the required documents are simplified and you only need to submit original passport. In case you submit at the Vietnam immigration office, these below documents are required:

• Original current passport (the passport should be valid for at least six months with two blank pages) ;
• Original Vietnamese visa (the visa was stamped on the passport or separate visa);
• Copy of latest Vietnam entry stamp and port of entry name into Vietnam;
• Original copy or photo of residential registration certificate confirmed by the local police where you are staying in Vietnam;

Documents provided by legal entity or individual for Vietnamese visa types of work, business, investment and relatives visiting:

• All the forms for visa extension or visa renewal must be signed and sealed by company’s legal representative;
• Notarized certified copy of legal Entity: A Limited Liability Company, Joint Stock Company and Representative Office in Vietnam
• Notarized true copy of business registration certificate, investment registration certificate or establish Representative Office
• Notarized true copies of Seal registration certificate and tax code registration certificate (if any)
• Notarized true copy of Vietnam work permit or work permit exemption certificate (for those granted the work permit in Vietnam);
• Individual sponsored by Vietnamese citizen or Vietnamese spouses should provide the notarized true copies of Vietnamese identity card or passport, family registration book, marriage registration or birth certificate for spouse, children

Step 4: Submitting the documents into Immigration Department and updating your visa extension status

Your documents and original passport will be submitted and kept at Vietnam Immigration Department around 5 – 7 business days. If the documents are eligible, the new visa extension stamp or new visa paper sticker will be granted on your passport with new staying duration permission in Vietnam, and you are allowed to stay longer in Vietnam.

2/ Where to submit documents for Vietnam visa extension?

Here are the contact details of the Immigration Departments located in the North, Center and South of Vietnam:

• In Ho Chi Minh City:

–  The Ho Chi Minh City Police Department’s Immigration Office: 196 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street, Ward 6, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City

–  Ministry of Public Security Department Of Immigration: 254 Nguyen Trai Street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City

• Immigration office in Da Nang: 7 Tran Quy Cap, Da Nang City
• Immigration office in Ha Noi: 40A, Hang Bai Street, Hanoi, Vietnam

For cases submitting through visa agency, there are a lot of visa agencies can process visa extension in Vietnam. Depending on which city are you in now, you can choose the local agent in your province. Or you also can contact info@vietnam-evisa.com for getting visa extension in any places.