Venezuelan passport holders need a visa to enter Vietnam, and the eVisa is the route almost all of them take. Here is what Vietnam asks for, what it costs, and the practical points that matter most flying out of Venezuela in 2026.
Yes, you need a visa. The visa requirements for Venezuelan citizens begin there, and neither trip length nor purpose changes it.
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Vietnam's 45 day waiver rests on two resolutions: Resolution 44/NQ-CP of 7 March 2025 covers 12 countries and Resolution 229/NQ-CP of 8 August 2025 adds 12 more, 24 in total. Venezuela is on neither, and no bilateral agreement exempts ordinary Venezuelan passports. Several visa sites say otherwise; they are wrong, and a check in agent will not accept them.
For everyone Vietnam does not exempt, the eVisa is what satisfies the requirement. Resolution 127/NQ-CP opened it to citizens of all countries and territories on 15 August 2023, confirmed by the Embassy of Vietnam in the United States. Ninety days is the ceiling, single and multiple entry are both available, and no list of excluded nationalities has ever been published.
Where you can use it widened at the end of 2025, when Resolution 389/NQ-CP of 2 December 2025 took the total to 83 checkpoints: 17 airports, 27 land border gates and 39 seaports. One narrow exception applies: Phu Quoc waives the visa for 30 days if you arrive direct from abroad and stay on the island.
Venezuelan travel documents have lost ground internationally. Henley and Partners, publishing its passport index on 13 January 2026, named Venezuela among the two steepest twenty year decliners. Vietnam is not one of the doors that closed, because it was never open, and the eVisa is issued to you on the same terms as to anyone else. Companions on other passports can check our eligibility index.
No embassy trip, no visa-on-arrival queue. You apply online, we review and file it, and the eVisa arrives as a PDF you print and carry. Vietnam does keep a resident embassy in Caracas, so a paper visa is possible, but it means appointments and your passport out of your hands for days.
We do not process visa-on-arrival letters. That route works at a handful of airports, never at a land or sea border, and still needs paperwork before you fly.
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⚠️ Emergency and temporary travel documents sit in a gray area, so treat yours as unproven. Whether an eVisa can be issued on one is addressed by no Vietnamese source we could find, and we will not guess with your trip. File on an ordinary Venezuelan passport where that is possible. Where a temporary document is all you hold, phone +84 832 320 320 before any money changes hands.
| 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, and here is 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 order, $25 goes to Vietnam and $29 is our fee for preparing, checking and filing it.
You can skip us and apply direct at evisa.gov.vn for the stamp fee alone. Some people should, and we will not pretend otherwise. What you pay us for is the review, the correction and a human answering when something goes wrong. The full fee breakdown lists the surcharges.
⚠️ We charge in US dollars by card, so settle that before you start. Banking access in Venezuela is constrained, and Canadian government travel advice records that banks often restrict transactions to their own clients. Where a card will not process an international USD charge, one held abroad or belonging to whoever is organizing the trip does the job, since the cardholder need not be a traveler. If neither exists, email support@vietnamvisa.govt.vn first.
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Three speeds, all priced per applicant:
Nothing starts ticking at checkout. The clock begins when the file reaches Vietnam Immigration, normally inside 2 business hours of payment. Three working days is the statutory standard; 3 to 5 is the everyday reality, and Tet shuts Vietnamese offices for several days at a stretch.
That timeline is Immigration's, not ours. Given how much the departure schedule out of Venezuela keeps moving, file early enough that a rebooked flight is a nuisance rather than a visa problem. One to two weeks between paying and boarding, and the speed tier stops mattering. Flying inside 24 hours? Ring the hotline before paying, so we can confirm we are able to deliver or refund you.
Let the itinerary decide this, not the product name. In and out on one pair of flights, and single entry does the whole job.
Multiple entry is the right call the moment your route leaves Vietnam and comes back. Nobody travels 30 hours from Venezuela for one country, and a trip that long usually collects Cambodia, Laos or Thailand. On single entry, the visa is spent the moment you cross out. When in doubt, choose multiple entry.
This is the detail most likely to cost a Venezuelan traveler a trip.
Passports issued before 15 April 2021 carried five years of validity and could take a one-time five year prorroga stamped into the document. SAIME withdrew the prorroga in March 2025 and moved new passports to ten year validity, per a research response from the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada covering 2024 to January 2026. A Venezuelan decree of 25 June 2024 separately extended passports issued before that date by ten years beyond the printed expiry, or beyond the last prorroga, whichever is later.
Whether to recognize that extension is each destination's own decision, and we found no Vietnamese instrument or embassy statement addressing it. The form asks for an expiry date and a scan of your data page, so the printed date is the one your application carries.
Work from that printed expiry. If it falls inside six months of your planned exit, solve it before applying, and allow time: the same research response records a passport fee of about USD 216, with eight to fifteen business days quoted and domestic waits far longer.
All the form specifies is a photograph taken straight on with no glasses. Even so, a bounced picture is among the commoner reasons an application stops moving. An image ticking these off will clear:
A phone photo against a white wall in daylight works. A cropped party photo does not.
Two airports take almost all Venezuelan arrivals, and the connection map is why, not the rules. Noi Bai in Hanoi (HAN) and Tan Son Nhat in Ho Chi Minh City (SGN) are the Vietnamese airports with nonstop service from the hubs a Venezuelan itinerary realistically transits: Istanbul, Doha, Madrid or Paris. Da Nang (DAD) is on the eVisa list and is the gateway to Hoi An and Hue, but from Venezuela it needs a third connection. Phu Quoc (PQC) is an eVisa checkpoint too, on a domestic hop. The eVisa also covers 27 land crossings and 39 seaports, and the port-of-entry field has gone from the issued PDF, so you are not locked to the checkpoint you named.
A pre-arrival declaration is now expected at the airports you will pass through. Tan Son Nhat began taking them on 15 April 2026, with Noi Bai and Da Nang following on 15 June 2026, through the Immigration Department's system at prearrival.immigration.gov.vn. You file passport, flight and accommodation details no earlier than three days before you land, and a QR code comes back. Vietnamese state media treats it as mandatory; the UK Foreign Office says it is not currently a legal requirement. Work to the stricter version. It stands alongside a visa, not instead of one.
Overstaying became far costlier at the end of 2025, when Decree 282/2025 replaced Decree 144/2021 on 15 December and doubled the maximum fine from VND 20 million to VND 40 million, roughly USD 1,520. The bands climb with the overstay: under 16 days is VND 500,000 to 2 million, about USD 19 to 76; 16 to 30 days is VND 5 to 10 million, about USD 190 to 380. Those December 2025 conversions are approximate.
What hurts is not the money. Deportation and a bar on future entry both follow from an overstay, and UK Foreign Office guidance notes that Vietnamese authorities can stop you leaving until the fine is paid. On a route home that already runs through two connections and a shifting schedule, being held in Hanoi is the expensive part.
⚠️ The exit date is decided the day the eVisa is issued, not the day you arrive. Whatever entry date you typed into the form is what the PDF's validity window is built from, so a flight that slips by three days eats three days of your stay. Count against the printed exit date.
Assume the printed expiry is the date that counts. Some countries publish a position on Venezuelan extensions; we found nothing from Vietnam either way, and the form records the date you type and the page you upload. If the printed date is inside six months of your planned exit, sort the passport first.
Fewer than a decade ago. Henley and Partners named Venezuela among the two largest twenty year decliners in its January 2026 index. Vietnam was never on that list, so nothing has changed here: you need a visa, and the eVisa covers tourism, family and short business trips.
No. A visa for another country gives you no entry right in Vietnam, and no Vietnamese rule treats a US or Schengen visa as a substitute. The reverse holds too, so check what any transit country asks of Venezuelans.
Strictly, no. Phu Quoc waives the visa for 30 days if you arrive directly from abroad by air or sea, hold an onward ticket within 30 days and stay on the island. No city in the Americas flies straight there, so you would transit airside through Ho Chi Minh City onto a domestic hop, which still qualifies. Many apply anyway, because one night on the mainland voids it.
Check your departure airport first. Twin earthquakes on 24 June 2026 damaged Simon Bolivar International Airport at Maiquetia, serving Caracas, closing it to scheduled passenger flights, recorded by the immigration firm Fragomen on 3 July 2026. Canadian government travel advice still states that Maiquetia is closed to passenger flights and that international flights out of Venezuela leave from Barcelona, Barquisimeto, Maracaibo and Valencia, Valencia carrying most of the schedule. The airport authority has since published a plan for temporary passenger terminals, dated 12 August 2026, so this moves week to week. Confirm the airport with your airline before fixing an entry date.
Budget a day and a half of travel. Nothing flies nonstop between Venezuela and Vietnam. The shortest routing is Istanbul, the one hub with a nonstop link to Venezuela and nonstop service onward to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Madrid, on Iberia and Air Europa, is the alternative, then a second connection through Istanbul, Doha or Paris. Panama City on Copa and Bogota on Avianca have the densest service, but neither serves Asia. That is about to improve: Qatar Airways is opening service to Bogota and Caracas, the first Gulf carrier to fly to Venezuela, now launching 2 September 2026, and Doha flies nonstop to both Vietnamese cities. Door to door runs 28 to 36 hours. See our guide to getting to Vietnam.
Vietnam is 11 hours ahead, all year. Venezuela has run at UTC-4 since 1 May 2016, when legal time moved back by thirty minutes, announced by the state broadcaster RNV. Neither country observes daylight saving, so the gap to Vietnam's UTC+7 is a flat 11 hours. Our 08:00 to 21:00 support window is 21:00 to 10:00 the next day in Caracas: email in the evening, read the reply by mid-morning. See our guide to time in Vietnam.
Plan around Carnaval and Semana Santa. Venezuelan labor law makes Carnival Monday and Tuesday and Holy Thursday and Good Friday paid holidays, alongside 1 January, 19 April, 1 May, 24 June, 5 July, 24 July, 12 October and 25 December, under the Ley Organica del Trabajo. Those weeks are when Venezuelans book long trips and when a SAIME office or a bank is hardest to reach.
Carry cash in Vietnam. Your issuer converts our US dollar price at its own rate, so the statement will differ slightly from the screen. Vietnam runs on the dong, and card acceptance is good in the big cities, thin outside. See our notes on cash, cards and ATMs.
You do have an embassy at home. Vietnam keeps a resident embassy in Caracas at Quinta El Cigarral, Sexta Avenida, Altamira, Chacao, listed by Vietnam's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with a new chancery inaugurated during the Vietnamese foreign minister's visit on 23 and 24 June 2026. An eVisa will not need it, but it is the address for consular questions the eVisa does not cover. Our Vietnam visa guide and common visa questions cover the rest; companions on a Colombian passport should read the Colombia page.