Peruvian passport holders need a visa to enter Vietnam, and for almost everyone leaving Lima the eVisa is the way to get one. Here's what Vietnam asks for, what it costs, how long it takes, and the details that matter when the nearest Vietnamese embassy is in another country.
Yes, you need a visa. The 45-day unilateral waiver reaches 24 countries in total, split at twelve apiece across Resolution 44/NQ-CP of 7 March 2025 and Resolution 229/NQ-CP of 8 August 2025. Peru is named in neither, and nothing bilateral fills the gap for an ordinary Peruvian passport.
That catches people out here more than elsewhere, because Chile has one. Chileans enter Vietnam for up to 90 days without applying for anything, under a bilateral agreement in force since 2017. Peru has no equivalent, so the visa requirements for Peruvian citizens are the standard set Vietnam applies to every non-exempt nationality. Traveling with a Chilean spouse or colleague? Our Chile eligibility page covers their side.
The eVisa meets that standard set in full. Resolution 127/NQ-CP opened it to every country and territory on 15 August 2023, as the Embassy of Vietnam in the United States records. Up to 90 days, single or multiple entry, delivered as a PDF. There is no short-trip escape hatch either: a holiday, a family visit, a conference or a week of meetings all sit behind the same document.
Where you can use it widened at the end of 2025, when Resolution 389/NQ-CP added 41 border gates and took the total to 83 checkpoints, made up of 17 airports, 27 land border gates and 39 seaports. Long Thanh and Gia Binh count only once operating, so roughly 15 airports are usable today, and every airport a traveler from Lima would use is on the list.
Phu Quoc is where the rule bends. Land there straight from abroad by air or sea, hold a ticket out within 30 days and stay on the island, and no nationality needs a visa. Spend a night on the mainland and you have broken the terms.
Plenty of readers here are going to meetings, not to Ha Long Bay. Both countries sit inside the CPTPP, and two-way trade reached 486 million USD in 2023, making Peru Vietnam's sixth largest trade partner in Latin America.
No embassy trip, no visa-on-arrival queue. The first half matters unusually much from Peru, because Vietnam keeps no mission in Lima and a paper application would mean sending your passport abroad. You apply online, we check and file it, and the eVisa comes back as a PDF.
We don't process visa-on-arrival letters and have not for years. That route needs a pre-approval document, works at a handful of airports, never at a land or sea border, and leaves you queuing after a day in the air. The eVisa covers all 83 checkpoints and is settled before you fly.
Six things. Most stalled applications fail on the first two.
⚠️ Emergency and temporary passports are an open question, so don't assume yours will be accepted. No Vietnamese government or embassy source states a rule either way, and we won't invent one. Apply on your ordinary Peruvian passport where you can, and if a temporary document is all you have, call +84 832 320 320 before you pay.
| Option | Validity | Our fee (per applicant) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Month Single Entry | 30 days from arrival | $54 |
| 1 Month Multiple Entry | 30 days from arrival | $84 |
| 3 Month Single Entry | 90 days from arrival | $94 |
| 3 Month Multiple Entry | 90 days from arrival | $104 |
All prices include the Vietnam Immigration Department's stamp fee. Here's the arithmetic. Vietnam charges $25 for a single-entry eVisa and $50 for a multiple-entry one, a rate set by Circular 28/2026/TT-BTC and unchanged since 1 April 2026. On a $54 single-entry order, $25 goes to Vietnam and $29 is ours for preparing, checking, filing and chasing it.
You can skip us and apply yourself at evisa.gov.vn for the stamp fee alone, and plenty of people should. With three weeks, a straightforward passport and patience for the form, that's the cheaper road and we won't pretend otherwise. What you buy from us is the second read, the correction, and someone who answers when it goes wrong. Our full fee breakdown lists every surcharge. The stamp fee is not returned if the application is refused.
Three speeds, each priced per applicant:
Read those as time at Immigration, not from checkout. Your file reaches the department inside 2 business hours of payment, and the counting begins there. Vietnam legislates for 3 working days, delivers 3 to 5 ordinarily, and slows at Tet, when offices close for days.
The timeline is Vietnam Immigration's, not ours. We can file fast, chase and fix, but we can't make a decision land sooner than the department issues it. Apply one to two weeks out and the speed tiers stop mattering. Flying inside 24 hours? Call the hotline before you pay, and if we can't deliver in time we will say so and refund you.
Let the itinerary decide this, not the label on the product. Vietnam once at the start and once at the end means single entry does everything you need.
Multiple entry earns its price the moment your route leaves Vietnam and comes back. Nobody flies 24 hours from Lima for one country, and a trip built around Vietnam usually picks up Cambodia, Laos or Thailand. Fly Hanoi to Siem Reap and back into Ho Chi Minh City on a single-entry eVisa and the visa is spent the moment you cross out. The upgrade costs $30 on a one-month visa and $10 on a three-month one. When in doubt, choose multiple entry.
Peru and Vietnam are both APEC economies, which opens a door for a few business travelers. The APEC Business Travel Card is a five-year card that, in APEC's own description, serves as the entry authority to other fully participating economies, giving pre-clearance for short-term business travel plus fast-track immigration lanes. Peru and Vietnam are both fully participating, so a Peruvian cardholder can make short business trips to Vietnam without a visa, with the permitted stay set by the host economy rather than by APEC.
Two limits matter. The card goes only to approved business people through their own economy's authorities and takes months to obtain, so it's no shortcut for a trip you are booking now. Canada and the United States take part as transitional members without reciprocal entry. Without a card, the eVisa covers short-term business, and our guide to business and work visas explains where the line falls.
⚠️ The card covers the cardholder and nobody else. An ordinary Peruvian passport gets no benefit from it, and neither does a spouse or a colleague traveling without their own card. Anyone in that position needs an eVisa.
The form asks only for a photograph taken straight on without glasses, but rejected images stall applications every day. A photo meeting these five points will pass:
A phone photo against a white wall in daylight works. A cropped wedding picture doesn't.
Two airports take almost every arrival from Peru, because every workable itinerary out of Lima connects through a hub flying nonstop into one or both. Expect to land at Tan Son Nhat in Ho Chi Minh City (SGN) or Noi Bai in Hanoi (HAN).
Da Nang (DAD) is an eVisa checkpoint and the gateway to Hoi An and Hue, but from Lima it needs a third flight, usually added in Bangkok, Singapore, Seoul or Doha. Phu Quoc (PQC) is a checkpoint in its own right, reachable on a domestic hop once you're in the country.
Land and sea gates matter on a regional trip. The eVisa is valid at 27 land crossings, so returning overland from Cambodia or Laos is fine, and at 39 seaports if you arrive by cruise. The port-of-entry field has been dropped from the issued eVisa, so you're not tied to the checkpoint you nominated.
There is a second thing to file before you land, separate from the visa. Pre-Arrival Information, run by the Immigration Department at prearrival.immigration.gov.vn, opened at Tan Son Nhat on 15 April 2026 and reached Noi Bai and Da Nang on 15 June 2026. Inside the three days before arrival you enter passport, flight and accommodation details and a QR code comes back. Whether it is legally compulsory is disputed: Vietnamese state media reports it as mandatory, the UK Foreign Office says it is not currently a legal requirement. Do it at those airports, and keep it separate from the visa itself.
Overstaying got a great deal dearer on 15 December 2025, the day Decree 282/2025 replaced Decree 144/2021. The change lifted the ceiling on the fine from VND 20 million to VND 40 million, about USD 1,520, which is twice what it had been.
The scale climbs with the overstay. Under 16 days runs VND 500,000 to 2 million, about USD 19 to 76. From 16 to 30 days it jumps to VND 5 to 10 million, about USD 190 to 380, rising in bands to the ceiling. Those dollar figures date from December 2025, so treat them as approximate.
Money is the least of it. Deportation and a ban on future entry both follow an overstay, and UK Foreign Office guidance notes that Vietnamese authorities can stop you leaving until it is paid. Rebuilding a 30-hour routing back to Lima afterwards dwarfs the fine.
⚠️ The eVisa's window is locked at issue and the border does not adjust it. The PDF takes its dates from the entry date you typed into the form, so a missed connection in Paris that lands you four days late costs you those four days rather than adding them at the far end. Work to the exit date on the PDF, not to the stamp.
No. Vietnam runs no mission in Peru. Consular responsibility sits with the Embassy of Vietnam in Brasilia, accredited to Peru, Bolivia, Guyana and Suriname. A paper visa would mean mailing your passport to Brazil or flying there, which is why nearly every Peruvian traveler uses the eVisa.
A good number, and the list has grown. Peruvians enter the Schengen area for up to 90 days in any 180 without a visa under the EU short-stay visa waiver agreement concluded in 2016, and most of South America is open on reciprocal terms. Vietnam isn't part of that picture, and neither exemption resolution names Peru.
Because the exemption is bilateral, not regional. Chile negotiated a mutual waiver with Vietnam that has run since 2017 and covers 90 days. Peru has no such agreement, and Vietnam's 45-day unilateral waiver lists 24 countries, none in Latin America. Shared geography and shared CPTPP membership don't carry into visa policy.
None, and no bank statement is asked for. The form wants passport details, a photograph, your travel dates and your entry point, not a balance, an itinerary, hotel bookings or a return ticket. The only place a ticket counts is the Phu Quoc waiver, which needs proof you are leaving within 30 days.
Budget a full day and a night for the journey. Nothing flies nonstop between Peru and Asia, and Lima's only nonstop European services run to Madrid, Barcelona, Paris and Amsterdam. Paris gives the cleanest routing: Air France does Lima to Charles de Gaulle in about 12 hours 15 minutes, and Vietnam Airlines flies Paris nonstop to Ho Chi Minh City in around 12 hours, Hanoi about an hour shorter. Call it 27 to 31 hours door to door. Madrid and Amsterdam are often cheaper but add a second stop, usually Doha, Dubai, Istanbul or Bangkok, as do routings through Sao Paulo or Santiago.
A US connection is not a neutral choice. Miami, Houston and Atlanta all have nonstops from Lima, but Peru isn't in the US Visa Waiver Program, so a Peruvian passport holder needs a US visa simply to change planes there. Without one in hand, price the European routing instead.
Vietnam is exactly 12 hours ahead, all year. Peru keeps one time zone at UTC-5 with no daylight saving, and Vietnam sits at UTC+7 without shifting either, so the gap never moves. Our 08:00 to 21:00 Vietnam support window runs from 20:00 the previous evening to 09:00 in Lima, so an email sent during your working day is answered while you sleep.
Plan around the Peruvian calendar. Peru has 16 national holidays in 2026, and the one that shapes travel is Fiestas Patrias on 28 and 29 July, with Monday 27 July declared a non-working day for the public sector, making a five-day break from Saturday 25 July. Santa Rosa de Lima on 30 August and Combate de Angamos on 8 October create the other long weekends. Those are the weeks Peruvians book big trips, so settle the visa first.
Payment is in US dollars. Your bank converts from soles at its own rate, so expect a small gap between the price on screen and the line on your statement. Vietnam runs on the dong once you land, and card acceptance thins quickly outside Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City. Our Vietnam visa guide and answers to common visa questions cover the rest, and companions on other passports can check our eligibility index by country.