90-day e-visa

A Vietnam e-visa gives you 90 days. Single entry is US$25, multiple entry US$50.

Planning a longer stay in Vietnam? We help with 90-day visas. Single entry and multiple entry. Send your nationality, travel dates, and preferred stay length and we'll confirm the right option for you.

90 day support

We help with 90 day stays, single entry, and multiple entry requests.

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Send your nationality, travel dates, and the type of stay you need.

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Travelers planning a longer stay in Vietnam.

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Stay longer without confusion.

This page is for travelers who need a 90 day option and want to know what applies to them.

Stay length90 days

Entry typesSingle or multiple

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FAQ

Long-stay questions, answered simply.

Do you help with a 90 day stay?

Yes. We can help you figure out the right option for your trip.

Can you help with multiple entry?

Yes. Tell us the travel plan and we’ll guide you to the right page.

Does the 90 days start when I land?

No. The visa has a start date and an end date printed on it, and you must leave by the end date. Landing later in that window does not push the end date back.

Is the US$25 single entry visa only 30 days?

No. Both tiers run up to 90 days. The difference is entries, not length: US$25 buys one entry, US$50 buys unlimited entries inside the same 90-day window.

What if I leave Vietnam and come back on a single entry visa?

The visa is spent at the exit stamp. Coming back needs a new visa, and it has to be approved before you re-enter. This is the mistake a multiple entry visa exists to prevent.

Can I do a 90-day trip without a visa?

Only if your passport carries a 45-day exemption, and then the cap is 45 days rather than 90. Everyone else needs a visa for a stay that long.

What the 90 days actually covers

The clock does not start when you land. A Vietnam e-visa is a fixed window with two dates printed on the PDF: valid from, and valid to. You may enter on or after the first date, and you must be out by the second. Land on day 60 of that window and you have 30 days left, not 90. This is the single most expensive misunderstanding on this visa, and it comes from choosing an early start date to "be safe".

So put the date you actually fly, or the day before it, in the entry date field. If your plans move a week later, the window does not move with them.

At the desk, the officer writes the permitted-until date into your passport stamp. Usually that matches the visa's end date, but the officer decides, and a shorter date is within their power. Read the stamp before you walk away from the counter. Finding out at the airport three months later that your permitted stay ended a fortnight ago turns a cheap mistake into an overstay fine.

Single or multiple entry: answer one question first

Will you leave Vietnam at any point during the trip and come back? If the answer is yes, you want multiple entry. It costs US$50 against US$25, and that extra twenty-five dollars is the whole decision.

A single-entry e-visa is spent the moment you cross out. Not when the 90 days run out, and not when you fly home, but at the exit stamp. Come back a week later on that visa and you are entering without one. The people who hit this are usually on a three-week trip with a week in Cambodia in the middle, or a long stay with a flight to Bangkok in it, or a Mekong run down to Phnom Penh on the Chau Doc boat.

Nothing can be upgraded after approval. If you picked single entry and then decide to hop to Laos, you buy a new visa. There is no edit button on an approved application, and the portal will not take a second application for the same arrival while the first one is live.

One thing multiple entry does not do is buy you more time. The window is 90 days whether you enter once or eight times. Ten entries inside the same 90 days is fine. A 95th day is an overstay.

If you already hold a multiple-entry e-visa, the visa exemption list is worth reading anyway: 24 nationalities get 45 days on arrival with no visa at all, 12 under Resolution 44 and 12 more under Resolution 229, and both schemes expire in 2028. For most European passports the exemption is the better deal on a short trip, and we say so on that page.

What it costs, and when to file it yourself

The government fee is US$25 for single entry and US$50 for multiple entry. It is set by the Ministry of Finance under Circular 28/2026/TT-BTC, in force from 1 April 2026, and it is not refundable if the application is refused. That last part matters: a rejection costs you the fee, not just the trip.

Nothing about that fee changes with who files the form, so no agency can discount it. What you pay on top is for someone to read your passport scan against your typed name, catch the port of entry mistake, and sit on the portal when the card payment fails. Our own desk prices are on the price list.

Here is the part most agencies will not write: if your travel dates are firm, your passport has six months left on it, and your card is accepted by the portal, filing it yourself is the cheapest route and there is no reason to pay us. Standard processing on the official portal takes around three working days. Where people get caught is timing, not paperwork, so apply a fortnight out and the ordinary route is fine.

Pay us when the date has moved, when the flight is inside 48 hours, or when a first application came back refused and you cannot tell why. The rejected e-visa guide covers what the refusal reasons actually mean.

Where a 90-day e-visa gets you in

Eighty-three border gates accept the e-visa. Resolution 389/NQ-CP, dated 2 December 2025, added 41 to the 42 already listed under Resolution 127/NQ-CP in 2023, which gives 17 airports, 27 land gates and 39 seaports. The list includes the crossings most long-stay travellers actually use: Moc Bai and Ha Tien from Cambodia, Lao Bao and Cau Treo from Laos, Huu Nghi from China, plus the two railway gates at Dong Dang and Lao Cai.

Two of the airports on that list are future ones. Long Thanh and Gia Binh count only once they are in commercial operation, so do not select either if you are flying this year. Pick the airport your ticket actually names.

The port you type into the application is printed on the visa. If your airline reroutes you to a different airport, that is a conversation at the immigration desk rather than an entitlement, and the outcome is not something anyone can promise you from here. If you have a day's notice, refiling is the cleaner answer.

There is no visa on arrival at land gates or seaports. Visa on arrival means the airport counter, and it needs an approval letter arranged before you fly. Overland, the e-visa is the self-service option and the only one that does not involve an agent's letter.

Flying into Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, Cam Ranh or Phu Quoc, you will also meet the pre-arrival declaration. It is free, it opens 72 hours before you land, and the digital arrival card guide walks through it, including the flight-code field that causes most of the failed submissions.

When 90 days is not enough

You cannot extend an e-visa from inside Vietnam. There is no counter that adds days to it, no button on the portal, and no quiet agent route that survives contact with an exit stamp. Anyone who offers to extend a 90-day e-visa without you leaving the country is selling you a promise that ends in a fine.

The lawful ways to stay longer are narrow. Leave before your last valid day and re-enter on a new visa, which is what a visa run is. Or hold a class that can be extended in country, which for most people means a business visa sponsored by a Vietnamese company, or eventually a work permit and a temporary residence card. Those are filed at an immigration office with the sponsor's paperwork, and they take working days rather than hours, so the decision has to be made well before the 90 days run out.

If a work permit or a long lease is already on your horizon, the extension page sets out which classes can be extended and what the office asks for. For the longer-term route, our sister site covers the temporary residence card and what it takes to qualify.

One honest note before you buy anything here. If you hold a passport with a 45-day visa exemption, and your trip is three weeks, you do not need an e-visa at all. Buying one wastes US$25 and gains you nothing. The exemption list names every eligible nationality, and it also says when those schemes expire, which is the part that catches people booking for 2028.

Overstaying, even by a day, is now a fine with a record entry attached, and the brackets climb sharply after the sixteenth day. Our overstay fine schedule lists all seven of them.

The fields that decide whether it clears

Most refusals and nearly all delays come from four fields, not from the passport itself.

Your name has to match the two machine-readable lines at the bottom of your passport data page, without accents, without a middle name parked in the surname box, and without "Mr" or "Dr" in front of it. If the PDF comes back spelled differently from the passport, the airline will treat the visa as belonging to someone else.
The entry date sets the start of your window, as above. Asking for a date before you fly shortens your own stay and buys you nothing.
The port of entry is the airport or gate on your ticket, spelled the way the portal spells it. Cam Ranh is the entry point for Nha Trang and Phu Quoc has its own airport, so choose the airport on the ticket rather than the city you are heading to.
Your email address has to be right, because the visa arrives as a PDF attached to it. One wrong character and the approval exists but never reaches you, which is the worst possible state to be in at a check-in desk.

The supporting rules are fixed. Passport valid for six months from arrival, two blank pages for the stamp, and a digital photo with a plain background and your whole face in frame. Every traveller gets their own e-visa, infants included. A child cannot travel on a parent's approval.

If a photo or a name already cost you an application, the mistakes that get files rejected are collected in the e-visa guide. A wrong detail on an approved visa is the one case where you file again rather than fixing it in place.