Vietnam visa extension or renewal
If your visa is near to the expiry date, you have to extend or renew it. But when do you need extend or renew your Vietnam visa? This article, vietnamvs.com will explain it clearly for you.
Extend your stay in Vietnam
This section explains the customer how to apply to their visa extension for the temporary staying permission in Vietnam with the purpose for visiting relatives, traveling, business or others.
Extending Vietnam visa must be applied some days before your visa expired date. because it takes 7 working days to finish as submitting your passport and requirements at Vietnam Immigration Department Office.
You have opportunity to extend your stay in Vietnam by visa extension and renewal. So what is difference between a visa extension and renewal? Please note that visa extension or renewals belongs to your current visa.
1. Visa extension:
It means that you will have new staying duration permission in Vietnam. Please remember that you are allowed to stay more in Vietnam without reentering if you exit Vietnam before your visa expired. So it means you must apply new visa if you wish to come back Vietnam after leaving. Hence the extension fee is much cheaper than renewal fee.
In order to apply visa extension, your current visa has to meet some requirements of Vietnam Immigration Department.
Your current visa type has to correspond to your staying extending requirement.
- Stay in 1 more month: If your current visa is 1 month single, 1 month multiple, 3 month single or 3 month multiple entry visa, you are allowed apply to extend visa in 1 more month.
- Stay in 3 more months: If your current visa is 3 month single or 3 month multiple entry visa, you can apply to extend visa in 3 more months
2. Renewal Vietnam visa:
It means that you are granted a new visa stamp and visa sticker on your passport with the new duration permission. The staying length is valid maximum in 3 months. Moreover the visa renewal fee is higher than the visa extension fee because we have to pay stamping fee and visa sticker fee for you. You can read more: Vietnam visa fees . Visa renewal is ready for someone who:
Entered Vietnam with visa exemption.
Current visa Vietnam doesn't not correspond to your staying extending requirement.
- If you would like to upgrade your current visa from 1 month to 3 month, you have to apply to renew 3 month single entry or 3 month multiple entry.
- If you would like to upgrade your current visa from single entry to multiple entry, you have to apply to renew visa.
Wish to get multiple entry visa in 1 month and 3 months.
In order to apply your Vietnam visa extension or Vietnam visa renewal the staying temporary permission, please provide some necessary information as below to our email address vietnamvs.com@gmail.com
- Passport scan
- Current visa scan
- Immigration stamp
- Latest date of entry
- Your current address in Vietnam
We will inform what you have to do and how much you have to pay.Please feel free to contact us via email: vietnamvs.com@gmail.com if you have any requests.
Read more: Vietnam visa requirements