Pre-pandemic visa exemptions, e-visas take effect

An airport staffer guides a passenger at the Tan Son Nhat Airport, HCMC, Jan 2022. Photo by VnExpress/Quynh Tran

The Foreign Affairs Ministry says Vietnam has resumed visa exemption and e-visa issuance to what it used to be before the Covid-19 pandemic took hold.

"Vietnam has resumed visa exemption for foreign nationals in accordance with international conventions that Vietnam is a party to, applied visa exemptions on reciprocal basis with countries, as also visa exemption agreements with other Southeast Asian nations," foreign ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said Thursday.

Hang said that the resumption was in conformity with policy that the Vietnamese government had announced for March 15, approving a proposal by the foreign ministry to restore immigration policies for foreign nationals and Vietnamese nationals residing abroad to what they were prior to Covid-19 restrictions.

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