Vietnam: Business vs Tourist Visa

[hsoa]

For visiting Vietnam, is there any advantage in getting a Business visa rather than a tourist visa? Can the Business visa be extended?

Thanks for any help.

[LongTimeLurker]

With a business visa you can get a work permit and residence card.

[Squeegee]

For longer stay there's a yearly option as well as 1 or 3 months for business visa which is also extendable more or less indefinitely, albeit increasing in price the more times you do extend.

 

As far as I know the tourist visa was tightened up a little last year, so it's less easy and more expensive to extend (ie. still possible depending on which side of the bed someone got out of, who your service provider's contacts are and how much is being paid, etc).

However, it's easier to get initially from outside VN and cheaper (for the paperwork).

If you want to be a short term tourist get a tourist visa, seems to be the word from the Vietnamese, it will be a little cheaper for you.

 

 

I believe the business visa is more expensive to get the initial invitation letter, but it offers longer term stay, especially for those who may want to do a little business or a bit of work for someone: better to pay a little more initially for the business visa, then you can stay longer term more conveniently and cheaply with extensions without having to leave town.

 

Of course, in SE Asia the best advice is have all your ducks in a row, but it seems at the moment the Vietnamese are happy to have foreigners come in and try to be on more or less the right visa with everything looking good (=total whatever cost paid/everyone has face) and it's otherwise pretty relaxed.

 

Still, always the best advice would be if you intend to work then do your paperwork properly through your employer with a real invitation letter and all that...

 

You could probably just enter any old how initially, it doesn't matter because staying long term in Viet Nam is better done from inside. The Vietnamese are not like the Thais and they prefer to do as much as possible themselves. They always have their own best advice and can use their contacts so everything goes swimmingly for you.

 

Who? Research a good travel agent for the local expats. There's info for online services too but I never used them with VN.

 

Ultimately tourist is cheaper for short stay only, business is better for pretty much anything else.

 

 

Specifics are best answered at source. There are many grey areas. Be as legal as possible.

[oMega69]

Any guys use this people to get Non-B Visa . . . . . they provide the " initial invitation letter " . . .   ,   // http://www.vietnamvisa-easy.com/ 

I dont inteend to work just get long term visa and possibility to own a motor vehicle .