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Bad news, apparently. Read the thread farther down in this subforum: https://aseannow.com/topic/1268136-is-the-vietnam-embassy-in-bangkok-legit/

Save a page in your passport and order the e-visa online. $25. I did this in May. You get the approval letter in 3 days, print it off and take it to Saigon Airport. Hand it over. You only get an entry stamp, and you avoid full-page sticker the embassy gives out. (Now, there were some fresh reports of people not getting their visas for many days later or not at all.) All I handed over was my passport and e-visa letter. Asked for nothing else. There might be a health declaration form to fill out on the plane because of the monkeypox scare. You get 30 days. There is NO visa longer than 30 days. They haven't reinstated the 90-day Tourist visa. There are Business visas but are a lot of work and cost a lot of money. In short, VN is not as easy to get into and stay long-term any more. Important: You cannot extend the Tourist visa in-country so you have to leave and re-enter. The correct government portal for the e-visa. https://evisa.xuatnhapcanh.gov.vn PS: Recent Google reviews rate VN embassy services as really, REALLY bad.

Maybe this will help somewhat. I only say this because I originally had an O-A and am now on extensions. I get emailed to me in Bangkok a signed letter from my former employer, listing my company pension. I have two other pensions. The Embassy told me I only need to do screen caps of my CPP and OAS pensions from my government account. Actually, I can print each formatted statement off from the screen or throw them onto a USB drive and print everything off in colour at a computer shop. I take these to the Embassy. I remember filling out a form. They use a pre-formatted statement. A counsellor fills in the blanks, adds them up and issues the signed and stamped Statement of Income, addressed to Thai immigration, along the lines of To Whom It May Concern, which you present to Thai immigration. 1500 baht, I believe, which can change based on the exchange rate. I also remember, the embassy changed to cashless payments, either bank draft or credit card. Fees listed on link below. Scroll down to Notarial Services, Payment Methods, Letter of Income: https://www.international.gc.ca/country-pays/thailand-thailande/bangkok-info.aspx?lang=eng#NS

OMG! This is still not finished? I was visiting and took pix of the unfinished sidewalks late last year out front of Big C Extra. My friends told me it had been like this for 6-8 months already. Well, scratch my plans to move back to Pattaya any time soon with all the other (above mentioned) main roads broken up and a long ways to go before being finished. And then they'll dig them up again on a new contract. Big spending tourists are going to love this luxury seaside resort. /sarcasm off/

Length of visa depends entirely on nationality and country of origin. But more to the point, that's just way too far away to answer now. All could change in six months.