Do US citizens need a visa for Vietnam? They do: every trip needs a Vietnam tourist visa for US citizens unless you fly straight into Phu Quoc island from abroad and stay there alone, 30 days at most, and the route needing no sponsor is an e-visa from evisa.gov.vn, at $25 for one entry or $50 for several, good for as long as 90 days. On November 9, 2026, the private sellers checked for this guide charged a median of $55 for that one-entry e-visa at normal speed, counting the 23 whose pages show where the government fee sits in the total.
Last checked November 9, 2026. Any of this can change, so check the official portal before you book. Official sources disagree on several points below, and this guide says where. The steps for applying are further down, under “Applying on the official portal, step by step”.
Vietnam travel visa routes for US citizens
| Route | Length | Government fee | Stated processing time |
|---|---|---|---|
| E-visa on the Immigration Department’s portal | 90 days at most, one entry or several | $25 or $50 | 3 working days in the law; usually between 3 and 5, the State Department says |
| Visa from the Embassy in Washington or a consulate | Set by the approval; the Embassy mentions a year, multiple entry, for US citizens | No amount on the Embassy’s pages; see the cost section | 5 working days on one Embassy page, 6 to 7 on another; 3 with an approval letter |
| Visa at an international airport, with an approval letter | Depends on the letter | $25 or $50 in cash, on sellers’ pages | Depends on the seller; the law allows this route only in listed cases |
| No visa, Phu Quoc only | Island only, 30 days at most, arriving directly from abroad or via an international transit lounge, the tourism authority says | None | None |
| Exemption certificate (Vietnamese origin, spouses, children) | 5 years at most | $10 | Not stated on the Embassy’s page |
Only the e-visa needs no sponsor in Vietnam, according to the State Department. Paper visas can begin with an approval from Vietnam’s immigration authorities, arranged by whoever is hosting you.
For a visa issued at the border, Article 18 of the entry law names six situations. They include setting out from a country with no Vietnamese visa office, passing through several countries first, joining a tour run by an international travel firm based in Vietnam, and coming for a relative’s funeral or serious illness. The State Department’s advice to US tourists is simpler: get the visa before departure.
One detail matters if you are weighing a paper visa against an e-visa. Article 31 ties the stay stamp to the visa’s length, but a tourist visa (symbol DL) running past 30 days earns a 30-day stamp first, with an extension to be considered after that. The e-visa has its own symbol, EV, and the 2023 amendment caps both at 90 days unless a treaty sets something else. The Embassy does not say which category covers the 1-year option for US citizens, and it adds that the border authority fixes the length of each stay on such a visa.
Where official sources disagree
On the Vietnam visa for US citizens, Vietnamese and US officials publish different answers to some basic questions. This table records them. The State Department’s live page blocked automated reading on November 9, 2026, so its column uses the Internet Archive’s copy of July 4, 2026, which carries an advisory of June 24, 2026. The department’s public advisory data feed showed no later update on November 9, but the guidance text itself could not be re-read.
| Question | Immigration Department and Vietnamese law | State Department and US Embassy | Embassy of Vietnam and tourism authority |
|---|---|---|---|
| Processing time | Law: 3 working days once the form and fee are in. Portal: no figure. | State: usually between 3 and 5 working days, and it can shift with volume or holidays. | Tourism authority: between 3 and 5 working days. |
| Passport validity | Portal and law: the visa must end 30 days or more before the passport does. | State: 6 months past your arrival date. | Embassy and tourism authority: 6 months from entry. |
| Blank pages | Not addressed on the pages read. | State: one line asks for a blank page per stamp, another for 2 blank pages. | Tourism authority: 2. |
| Border gates for e-visas | Resolution 389/NQ-CP: 83 since December 2025. | US Embassy page: still 42. | Tourism authority: 83 on its visa page, 42 on an older guide. |
| Must entry and exit match the application? | Portal FAQ: you may leave through a different gate from the one you entered by. | State: the gates on the e-visa have to match the ones chosen when applying. | Tourism authority: your route has to match the gate on the e-visa. |
| How the fee is paid | Portal: credit or debit card through its payment gateway. | US Embassy page: bank transfer. | Not addressed. |
| Pre-arrival form | Portal: highly recommended. Ministry of Public Security, May 2026: optional during the Tan Son Nhat pilot. | State: required at Tan Son Nhat, and only inside the 3 days before landing. | Not addressed. |
This guide’s reading, not an official ruling: plan to the strictest version of each. That means 6 months of passport validity, 2 blank pages, an application filed well over 5 working days before departure, a flight into the gate named on the application, and a pre-arrival form filed inside the 3 days before landing. The portal issues the visa, so if its wording changes, follow the portal.
Vietnam visa cost: the official fee against private sellers
The government fee comes from Finance Ministry Circular 28/2026/TT-BTC, in force from April 1, 2026 in place of Circular 25/2021/TT-BTC: $25 per one-entry visa and $50 per multiple-entry visa valid 90 days or less, with children under 14 paying $25 on multiple-entry visas. The portal’s figures match, and under both texts a refusal forfeits the fee.
For visas issued abroad, Circular 163/2026/TT-BTC, reported by the government’s news portal on November 2, 2026 and in force from November 1 according to Thời báo Tài chính Việt Nam, sets these fees at Vietnamese missions: $25 for one entry and, for several entries, $50 up to 3 months, $95 up to 6 months and $135 up to a year. The Embassy in Washington prints no amount and sends questions to its consular section; its price, it says, bundles approval, handling, postage and any rush work. One US filing service, usccc.org, lists $80 as a consular fee for one month on one entry, but the same page says it now processes only e-visas, and this guide could not confirm the figure from the Embassy’s pages.
The table sets the official fee against posted prices on 35 private sites found in saved Google results for these searches, for one adult, tourist, one entry and 30 days (90 days where marked). “Normal” is the slowest speed listed. “Fastest” is the shortest weekday speed with a printed dollar figure. Where a page keeps the government fee separate, it is added here, and the page’s own split is in brackets.
| Seller | Product | Normal speed, total | Fastest speed, total | Government fee in the page’s price? | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| evisa.gov.vn (official portal) | E-visa | $25, 3 working days under the law | No paid rush tier shown | This is the fee itself | 2026-11-09 |
| vietnambooking-visa.com | E-visa | $39, 4-5 working days | $175, 1 working hour | Yes | 2026-11-09 |
| visumvietnamonline.com | E-visa | $45, 3-5 working days | $225, 2 hours | Says nothing more is due on arrival | 2026-11-09 |
| evisavietnam.com | E-visa | $47, 5-7 working days | $260, 1.5 working hours | Yes | 2026-11-09 |
| vietnamvisa-easy.com | E-visa | $47, 5-7 working days | $219, 1.5 working hours | Yes | 2026-11-09 |
| evisatovietnam.vn | E-visa | $48, 5-7 working days | $66, 4 working days | Yes | 2026-11-09 |
| govietvisa.com | E-visa | $49, 4-6 working days | $179, 1.5 hours | Yes | 2026-11-09 |
| vietnamvisaservice.net | E-visa | $49, 5-7 working days | $125, 1 working day | Yes | 2026-11-09 |
| vietnamevisaurgent.com | E-visa | $50, 4-6 working days | $185, 1.5 working hours | Yes | 2026-11-09 |
| vietnam-immigrations.org | E-visa | $51 | $165, 4 hours | Not stated | 2026-11-09 |
| vietnamvisa.govt.vn | E-visa | $54, 5-10 working days | $139, 1 working day | Yes | 2026-11-09 |
| getvisavietnam.com | E-visa | $55, 4-6 working days | No price shown | Yes | 2026-11-09 |
| vietnamdiscovery.com | E-visa | From $55, 5-7 working days | No price shown | Yes | 2026-11-09 |
| vietnamvisa.com | E-visa | $55, 5-7 working days | $180, 2.5 working hours | Yes | 2026-11-09 |
| vietnamvisa.org.vn | E-visa | $55, 4-6 working days | $150, 1 working day | Yes | 2026-11-09 |
| vietnamvisaembassy.com | E-visa | $55 ($30 + $25), 4-6 working days | $150, 1 working day | No, added here | 2026-11-09 |
| vietnamvisaonline.com.vn | E-visa | $55 ($30 + $25), 4-6 days | No price shown | No, added here | 2026-11-09 |
| vietnam-visa.com | E-visa | $57, 5-7 working days | $166, 4 working hours | Yes | 2026-11-09 |
| evisa-vietnam.com | E-visa | $60 | No price shown | Yes | 2026-11-09 |
| vietnamvisa.cheap | E-visa | $60 | No price shown | Says nothing more is due on arrival | 2026-11-09 |
| visa-vietnam.hk | E-visa | $60, 4 working days | $190, 4 working hours | Yes | 2026-11-09 |
| intimevisa.com | E-visa | $70, 3 working days | $150, 2-4 hours | Yes | 2026-11-09 |
| yuenanyuenan.com | E-visa | $70 | No price shown | Says nothing more is due on arrival | 2026-11-09 |
| apply.joinsherpa.com | E-visa, 90 days | $72, approval expected November 19 | No price shown | Not stated | 2026-11-09 |
| jsdbiz.com | E-visa | From $74, 3-7 days | From $143, 3-4 days | Not stated | 2026-11-09 |
| govietnam-evisa.com | E-visa | $75 ($50 + $25), 3-5 working days | $270, 15 min to 1 working hour | No, added here | 2026-11-09 |
| monumentvisa.com | E-visa | $75, 5-7 business days | No price shown | Yes | 2026-11-09 |
| vietnamsvisa.com | E-visa | $75 ($50 + $25), 4-6 business days | $200, 1-2 hours | No, added here | 2026-11-09 |
| vietnamimmigration.com | E-visa | $80 | No price shown | Says nothing more is due on arrival | 2026-11-09 |
| evisasvietnam.com | E-visa | $89, 3 business days | $289, 1 business hour | Yes | 2026-11-09 |
| vietnamvisacorp.com | E-visa, 90 days | $94 ($39 + $55), 5 business days | $193, 1 business day | No, added here | 2026-11-09 |
| officialvietnamvisa.com | Approval letter | $39 ($14 letter + $25 cash at the airport), 2-3 working days | Rush figures on the page conflict | No, added here | 2026-11-09 |
| vietnamvs.com | Approval letter | $42 ($17 letter + $25 cash at the airport), 2 working days | $87, 30 minutes, a tier the page limits to some nationalities | No, added here | 2026-11-09 |
| myvietnamvisa.com | Approval letter | $43 ($18 letter + $25 cash at the airport), regular | $62, same day | No, added here | 2026-11-09 |
| vietgreenvisa.com (no link, see below) | Approval letter | $45 ($20 letter + $25 cash at the airport), 2 working days | $95, 2 working hours | No, added here | 2026-11-09 |
| usccc.org | Embassy visa, though the same page says it now processes only e-visas | $205, 3-5 business days | $280, same day | Yes | 2026-11-09 |
What the table shows. Among the 30 e-visa rows, normal-speed totals run from $39 to $94. For the 23 sellers that state the fee is included or list it separately, the median is $55, which is $30 above the fee, or 2.2 times it. Adding the 4 pages that say only that nothing more is due on arrival, then the 3 that do not say, leaves the median at $55. Of those 23, 18 print a fastest price, with a median of $179.50 and a range of $66 to $289. Across all 30, 14 sell a speed counted in hours or minutes, at $150 to $289. The 4 approval-letter rows total $39 to $45 at normal speed, with $25 of that due in cash on landing.
What it does not show. Nothing was bought, so delivery times and refund promises are the sellers’ own. Only 8 of the 35 rows come from a page aimed at US citizens or US passports, and at least one seller says its final price depends on nationality. A row is a website, not a company, and sites can share an owner. Nor is a row a check of a site’s advice: the vietgreenvisa.com page for US citizens says US passports need no visa for stays of up to 30 days, which contradicts the State Department, so that row carries no link. Take entry rules from the official sources, not from a seller’s page. Speeds are not like for like: “normal” spans 3 business days at one seller and 10 at another.
A further 14 sellers are not in the table. Ten showed no price for a US passport on the pages read, five of them because the table opens on another nationality and needs a selector. One of the ten, tanvanlang.com, quotes “from USD 48” on a separate US page, which would not move the median. The other four carried old dates, charged New Taiwan dollars or did not resolve.
For the extra money, sellers describe checking documents before submission, filing the form, tracking the case, weekend service and faster tiers. That can suit a trip only days away, or someone who cannot get through the form. Some also promise something the portal does not: vietnamvisa.com and evisavietnam.com say they refund what you paid if the visa is refused, apart from false information on your part. No seller in the table beats the portal’s $25, so with time in hand and a clear passport scan, the portal is the cheap route.
Expedited Vietnam e-visa and urgent Vietnam visa options
Official sources say little about speed.
- The law. Article 16a gives the Immigration Department 3 working days from the complete form and fee, and names no faster track. The later amendments read for this guide leave 16a alone.
- The portal. Its home, instruction and FAQ pages, and the 4,733 display strings in its main script, contain no paid rush tier in English or Vietnamese. That is silence, not a statement that none exists.
- US officials. The State Department says its embassy and consulate have no power to hurry an e-visa or correct one.
- The Embassy of Vietnam. It sells expedited handling for its own visas, not for e-visas: 1 to 4 working days on one page and 1 to 5 on another, or 24 hours for a fee if you already hold an approval letter.
- Private sellers. They advertise speeds as short as an hour, and one quotes 15 minutes at the low end, as the table shows. The official pages read for this guide do not describe such a service or explain how it works, so treat those times as the sellers’ claims. A Vietnam News Agency report of July 26, 2026, under the heading “The traps behind ‘express visa’ services”, has a cybersecurity officer saying fraudsters often promote “instant visas”, “urgent processing” or “guaranteed approval”. It names no site and does not say every such offer is a fraud. One of them, vietnamdiscovery.com, says plainly that nobody can guarantee approval.
Holidays can change the timing. The clock counts working days, and Vietnam’s government staff are off from February 4 to 10, 2027 for Tet 2027. An application can go in a year ahead, the portal FAQ says, so the cheap way to be fast is to start once dates are set. If you are still choosing, see the best time to visit Hanoi.
Applying on the official portal, step by step
- Go to evisa.gov.vn or thithucdientu.gov.vn. The portal names only these two addresses for applying, and an Immigration Department notice dates them to November 11, 2024.
- Two files go in first: your passport data page and a new portrait, JPG or JPEG, 4×6 cm, below 2 MB. The portal wants a white backdrop, a straight-on face and formal clothes, with no hat or glasses. An invalid passport image blocks submission.
- Answer in English. Copy every name from the ICAO line, middle name too, in capitals. For a multi-stop trip, give your first address.
- Pick one entry or several, then your dates and your gates. The portal’s interface text names both an intended gate of entry and an intended gate of exit. Leave a margin around the trip, because the visa normally covers only the span you asked for, the State Department says.
- Pay $25 or $50 by card and keep the application code. The fee is gone if the visa is refused, and false answers are grounds for refusal, so reread everything first.
- The result arrives by email or on the search page. That page takes the code, birth date and email. Questions go to foreigners@xuatnhapcanh.gov.vn.
- Print the result, then compare every line with your passport. The State Department warns of two costs of a wrong line: refusal at the border, or an expensive sponsorship bought from an airport travel agency.
The Immigration Department also urges arrivals to file a pre-arrival form at prearrival.immigration.gov.vn within 3 days before entry. It issues a QR code to show at the gate. The ministry said in May 2026 that it would go nationwide after the Tan Son Nhat pilot. India’s Embassy in Hanoi names Noi Bai, Da Nang, Cam Ranh and Phu Quoc as next and calls the form voluntary, while VisasNews reported in June 2026 that all four had been added and that arrivals at Phu Quoc must file. This guide found no Immigration Department notice settling it, so file the form if your airport appears on it. It does not replace a visa.
Passport and photo requirements
Plan on 6 months of validity and 2 blank pages, as explained above. Two further rules come from the State Department: use the same passport to enter, leave and fly domestically, and do not count on the 12-page emergency passport. On that point the portal is firmer than the State Department’s “may not accept”: its list of passport types barred from a visa includes emergency and temporary ones.
Paper applications differ. The Embassy of Vietnam wants 2×2 inch photos, a single print for a visa placed in your passport and two for a loose-leaf one. Its counter takes cards, and by mail it takes money orders or checks. The form and instructions are at the Embassy’s site. The US Embassy also lists consulates in Houston, New York and San Francisco.
Ports of entry for e-visa holders
Resolution 127/NQ-CP opened e-visas to all nationalities from August 15, 2023 and listed 42 gates. Resolution 389/NQ-CP of December 2, 2025 added 41, for 83 in all: 17 airports, 27 land crossings and 39 seaports, as the Foreign Ministry counts them. Two of those airports, Long Thanh and Gia Binh, apply only once they open. Long Thanh is expected to start commercial flights on December 24, 2026, VnExpress reported, so recheck the list if your ticket names it. The portal’s list today names 15 airports:
Cam Ranh, Can Tho, Cat Bi, Chu Lai, Da Nang, Dong Hoi, Lien Khuong, Noi Bai (Hanoi), Phu Bai, Phu Cat, Phu Quoc, Tan Son Nhat (Ho Chi Minh City), Tho Xuan, Van Don and Vinh.
Land crossings on the list include Moc Bai from Cambodia, Huu Nghi from China, and both the road and rail gates at Lao Cai, the town the Hanoi to Sapa trains serve. An e-visa works only at listed gates, so look yours up before paying for a bus or boat.
What to carry at the border
- Your passport and printed e-visa. The portal’s FAQ tells of a traveler who forgot to show the e-visa and was stamped in as visa exempt, so hand it over, then read the stamp before leaving the desk.
- The pre-arrival QR code, on your phone or on paper.
- A photocopy and a phone photo of the passport. To stay or leave legally after losing the passport, the State Department says, you need a new one and a new Vietnamese visa.
- A declaration if you carry more than 15,000,000 dong or more than $5,000 in foreign currency.
- Traveling with a child? Bring the birth certificate. If one parent stays home, the State Department advises a notarized letter. It lists no required vaccinations, and Vietnam’s Health Ministry said in July 2026 that the health declaration in Decree 165/2026/ND-CP is not a routine requirement for arrivals.
Once in the country, the place you stay files your temporary residence each time you move, using your passport, and the portal asks foreigners to carry their passport and residence papers, while the State Department advises keeping the passport in a hotel safe and carrying copies. After Noi Bai, the next stop may be things to do in Hanoi.
Overstays and extensions
The State Department’s line on overstays is plain: expect a fine and a wait to be let out, even when the cause was an accident or a medical emergency. Decree 282/2025/ND-CP, in force since December 15, 2025, sets the amounts.
| Length of overstay | Fine (Vietnamese dong) |
|---|---|
| Under 16 days | 500,000 to 2 million |
| 16 to under 30 days | 5 to 10 million |
| 30 to under 60 days | 10 to 15 million |
| 60 to under 90 days | 15 to 20 million |
| 90 to under 180 days | 20 to 25 million |
| 180 days to under 1 year | 25 to 30 million |
| 1 year or more | 30 to 40 million |
The first band comes from Tuổi Trẻ News, and the rest also appear in the Khánh Hòa provincial police’s summary. From 16 days, deportation is possible too, weighed on the facts of each case, and a deported person cannot return for 3 years under Article 21 of the entry law. The State Department says Vietnam will not extend or renew an e-visa in-country; the portal issues e-visas only to people outside Vietnam, and mentions a new visa in the country only with an invitation or guarantee from someone there. Fixing an overstay means going in person to the immigration office for where you live, and US consular staff cannot sponsor you or issue support letters.
Vietnamese origin: the visa exemption certificate
Overseas Vietnamese can get this Embassy of Vietnam certificate, and so can a spouse or child of an overseas Vietnamese or of a citizen. It lasts 5 years at most and has to expire 6 months or more ahead of the passport, which needs a year or more left when you apply. The packet is a form, two 4×6 photos, your passport with a copy, and a paper proving origin or family tie, handed in or sent notarized by registered mail. The fee schedules list $10, and the Embassy takes it by money order or cashier’s check. Decree 82/2015/ND-CP allows 6 months per entry, or what is left on the certificate if that is shorter.
How to tell the official sites apart
The Immigration Department’s FAQ names evisa.gov.vn and thithucdientu.gov.vn and warns of unauthorized charges on unofficial pages. The older address, evisa.xuatnhapcanh.gov.vn, still loads as a login page and is the one the Embassy’s page still links, though the department’s notice moved applicants on in 2024. The State Department’s short version: request the e-visa from the Vietnamese government’s own site only. Even so, in the July 4 copy read for this guide, the link on its page labeled as the government’s e-visa interface goes to evisavietnam.vn, which describes itself as a private service, while two other links there go to evisa.gov.vn. Check the address bar whichever page sent you.
A name does not settle it. Sites in the table use words such as official, embassy, immigration or govt, and several say in their small print that they are private: vietnamvisa.govt.vn calls itself independent of the government, officialvietnamvisa.com calls itself a commercial organization, and vietnamvisa.org.vn calls itself a private agent. This guide has no ruling on whether any site in the table is licensed or safe, and official wording is wary. The Embassy of Vietnam says it cannot vouch for online visa services and reports fraud, stolen personal data and travelers refused entry after using unrecognized websites. The tourism authority tells travelers to steer clear of unauthorized agencies that inflate fees. None of these warnings names a site in the table. Know whom you are paying, and for the official route type the .gov.vn address yourself. The Embassy of Vietnam’s page also names an assistant site, vnmvisa.com, which returned no readable text when checked, so this guide cannot say what it does or charges. The ministry has also reported fake sites imitating the pre-arrival form.
Frequently asked questions
Do US citizens need a visa for Vietnam?
They do for any trip beyond an island stay of 30 days or fewer on Phu Quoc, and the tourism authority limits that stay to people who arrive directly from abroad or via an international transit lounge. US passports are absent from the 25 countries with unilateral 45-day exemptions on the tourism authority’s list, and from its shorter bilateral exemptions too.
Does Vietnam require a visa on a short vacation?
For US passport holders it does, and trip length changes nothing. A one-week trip pays the same $25 as a 90-day one. Leaving Phu Quoc for the mainland brings the visa rule back, and the portal issues e-visas only to people outside Vietnam, so a trip that may reach the mainland needs its visa before departure.
How much does a US tourist pay?
On the official portal, a Vietnam tourist visa for US citizens costs $25 for one entry or $50 for several. Private sellers checked on November 9, 2026 charged a median of $55 for the one-entry e-visa at normal speed, with the fastest weekday tiers reaching $289.
How many days does the e-visa take?
Three working days once the form and fee are complete, under the law. The State Department and the tourism authority both say between 3 and 5, and holidays can shift it. Filing well ahead of 5 working days before departure is the safer plan.
Is an urgent Vietnam visa available?
The official pages read for this guide show no way to pay for speed on the e-visa portal. Private sellers advertise speeds from 15 minutes upward, with weekday tiers up to $289, and the Embassy of Vietnam offers expedited handling for its own visas. Those seller times are their claims and were not tested.
Should the e-visa be single or multiple entry?
Pick when applying, at $25 or $50; both last 90 days at most. Multiple entry fits an itinerary that crosses out of Vietnam and returns.
Is a visa on arrival possible for a US citizen?
The law limits visas at the border to six listed situations, and the State Department tells US tourists to apply before they travel. Private sellers do offer approval letters, listed in the table at $39 to $45 in total at normal speed, with $25 of that due in cash on landing. One describes its letter as 15 days and one entry.
Is the visa fee refundable?
Not on the official portal. Its home page, its form declaration and the fee circular all say that a refused application keeps the fee. Some private sellers advertise a refund of their whole price if a visa is refused.
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Featured image: Terminal 2 of Noi Bai International Airport, Hanoi, at night on December 30, 2014. Photo: Christakis Mina, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped).
