Vietnam visa requirement for South African

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Do South African passport holders require visa for Vietnam ?

We wish to inform you that South Africa passport holders are required Vietnam visas to enter Vietnam.

How to get Vietnam visa in South Africa?

There are 2 ways for you to get a Vietnam visa:

1. Apply for your Vietnam visa in a Vietnam Embassy / Consulate:

South African citizens longing to visit the Vietnam need a Vietnam visa for South African. There are two main basic ways to applying for the Vietnam visa as aSouth African citizen listed below:

– By direct application for the Vietnam
– By applying for the Vietnam visa on arrival online through our website

Get your Vietnam visa at our Vietnam Embassy or Vietnam Consulate:

South African citizens wishing to apply for the Vietnam visa can directly undertake the application procedure for the Vietnam visa for South African from the Vietnam embassy in South Africa. To start with, information gathering is always important hence applicants can first reach the embassy to get instructions on how the process goes about via the following ways:

– By paying personal visits to the Vietnam embassy. This however is only practicable during work days and within business hours.
– By email conversations
– By making phone calls to the Vietnam embassy in South Africa

Part of the information you might need from the Vietnam embassy include:

– Requirements and standards set for visa applicants by the immigration department of Vietnam.
– Visa application fees,
– Types of visa issued along with their scope and durability
– The estimated awaiting period it takes before a visa matures

Take not of the following contacts to the Vietnam embassy in South Africa:

Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in South Africa
Address: 87 Brooks Street, Brooklyn, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa.
Tel: + 27 (0)12 362 8119, + 27 (0)12 362 8118
Consular emergency: Tel : 27 (0)622 307 763 Email: t_thanh_2000@yahoo.com
Fax: + 27 (0)12 362 8115
Email: embassy@vietnam.co.za
Website: https://vnembassy-pretoria.mofa.gov.vn/

Online application procedure for the Vietnam visa for South African on arrival

All South African citizens seeking the Vietnam visa for South African through our website ought to have the following documents:

– A legitimate passport that was obtained more than six months prior to the visa application date.
– Two passport photos that they took within the recent six months

With these two records, visa applicants qualify to visit our website online and undertake the following procedural steps during their visa application:

– Download the visa application form found on our website and have it printed to hardcopy. Fill in the left gaps with details required from you. Scan and submit the completed form back to us by email.
– Pay the visa service online as guided by our instructions on the website.
– Wait for the letter of approval from us. We will forward this document to you by email as received from the Vietnam immigration department if your visa application gets approved. Normally it takes about 48 hours to receive this document.
– Once received, the letter of approval should be printed for use over the next procedures. Firstly, you will use this document for your temporal identification when boarding a plane to Vietnam. Once landed at any of the international airports of Vietnam walk straight to the ‘Visa on Arrival Office’ and present the letter of approval, your valid passport and the two passport photos in order to claim your visa.
– Finally, you will pay the visa stamping fees to have the Vietnam visa for South African stamped on a page in your passport and handed to you immediately.

Conditions to get the Vietnam visa for South African:

– You must have a valid passport acquired over six months before the date of your visa application. The passport should have a longer validity than the visa you are applying for.
– Your passport should have enough space, as the visa for Vietnam requires a full page in the passport.
– You should fill in the visa application form with correct information as it is in your passport.

Online application service for the Vietnam visa for South African is only available to air travelers