According to the announcement from the meeting this afternoon, the Vietnamese government decided to suspend all new visa issuance for all nationalities, effective from March 15, 2020.
The Vietnamese government has recently decided to suspend visa exemption programs for several European countries, including France, Germany and Spain. Citizens holding French, German and Spanish passports must apply for a visa to enter Vietnam, effective March 10, 2020.
According to official information from the Vietnamese government, starting today March 10, 2020, the visa waiver program for Nordic countries including Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark will be suspended.
Vietnam is taking strong measures to tighten the management of foreigners entering Vietnam. On March 9, 2020, the Prime Minister approved the decision: suspend all visa waiver programmes for the UK and some countries in Europe.
As we know, the Wuhan virus corona had a big impact on people life, especially on tourism. Not only China, the neighboring countries like Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, etc. and the SAR like Hong Kong, Macao are also influenced by this bad situation. Due to the virus problem, Vietnam is temporarily stopped to issue business visa... read more »
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It’s happy to inform you that, Hong Kong And Macao SAR are allowed to apply Vietnam visa as normal as before from 08 February 2020.
“Can Hong Kong/ Macao passport holders apply Vietnam electronic visa during the corona virus outbreak?” – it is the most popular questions which many customers asked us when the coronavirus is spreading from countries to countries.
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After lunar new year 2020, due to the big effect of Wuhan coronavirus, Vietnam Government decided to temporarily stop granting electronic visa for Hong Kong and Macao SAR, two regions are getting more and more bad influences from Wuhan virus. Furthermore, many airlines decided to cancel flights from Hong Kong Macao to Vietnam and vice... read more »
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Due to Virus corona situation, Vietnam Immigration has restricted to grant visa for Hong Kong passport holders from the end of January 2020. Accordingly, Hong Kong passport holders can only apply for Vietnam tourist visa on arrival in this period of time. The round-trip air ticket is required when submitting the visa application. However, from... read more »
Applying visa at the embassy is the most popular way for those who are seeking for visa to enter a specific country. But not all countries have the embassy of the country which you are planning to visit. As we know, Saudi Arabian citizens need to get visa to enter Vietnam. Therefore, applying Vietnam visa... read more »
