DRAFT CIRCULAR RAISING VISA FEES INTO VIETNAM

Three-month visa : $65
Visa of three - six months: $95
Visa of more than six months - one year: $135
Visa of more than one year - two years: $165
Visa of more than two years - three years: $195
Visa of more than three years - four years: $225
Visa of more than four years - five years: $255

Previous to the change, the fees were $65 for a visa of less than one month, $95 for less than six months, and $135 for six months upwards.

Meanwhile, a single-entry visa for tourists remains unchanged, at $45 under the draft circular.

When VIR asked MoF’s Deputy Minister Vu Thi Mai at last week’s government press conference about the rise in fees for multiple-entry visas, she refused to comment on the issue.

Nguyen Van Tuan, director of a locally-owned tourist company in Hanoi, told VIR that: “I suggest that single-entry visa fees for tourists not be raised, though the existing fee level of $45 remains unchanged in the draft circular. If it was raised, local tourism industry would be badly affected as the number of foreign tourists would decrease.”

Source: VIR