Are you the APEC business travel card holders, or looking to visit Phu Quoc island? You don’t have to take Vietnam visa! Yes, APEC business travel card holders are exempt from Vietnam visa for 90 days. Travelers to Phu Quoc island with an air return ticket and who stay on the island for 30 days or less are exempt from having a Vietnam visa. But, a visa is required if you are going outside the island and if you don’t have APEC business travel card. For Australian, there are three options to apply for the visa. They are,
- Applying for a visa at the local embassy
- Applying for a visa via visa on arrival (Online Process)
- Applying for a visa via e-visa (online process)
Each process has different Vietnam visa fee-paying method. Among this, the stress-free, secure, and most importantly, the affordable portal to apply and pay your Vietnam visa fee is applying for a visa via visa on arrival. Since the complete process here will be done via online, there will not be any error. If any case, if you find any issue, they will refund your 100% money that you paid, also they will arrange a new visa for you on no charge.
Applying and Paying For a Visa via Local Embassy
You have to visit any of the nearest embassy in your Australia.
Australia has three embassies in a different location to apply for a visa. They are,
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Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in Canberra, Australia
Address: 6 Timbarra Crescent, O’Malley, ACT, 2606, Canberra, Australia
General line: 02 6286 6059 (extension 101/102)
Direct line: (02) 6286 5660 or (02) 6286 8465
Fax: (02) 6286 4534
Email: vnemb.au@mofa.gov.vn or vembassy@iinet.net.au
Website: https://vnembassy-canberra.mofa.gov.vn
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Consulate General of S.R.Vietnam in Perth, Australia
Address: Level 8, 16 St Georges Terrace, WA 6000 P O Box 3122 East Perth WA 6892, Australia
General line: ( +61) 8 9221 1158
Direct line: (+61) 434 520 536 or (+61) 432 738 368
Fax: ( +61) 8 9225 6881
Email: vnconsulate.perth@gmail.com
Website: https://vnconsulate-perth.mofa.gov.vn
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Consulate General of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in Sydney, Australia
Address: Suite 205, level 2, Edgecliff Centre, 203 – 233 New South Head Road, Edgecliff, NSW 2027, Australia
Tel: 02 93271912 / 02 93272539
Fax: 02 93281653
Email: vnconsul@iinet.net.au
Website: https://vnconsulate-sydney.mofa.gov.vn
At any of these embassies, you have to submit your original documents and pay the fee directly to the officer. Normally, your visa approval process here it takes more than four days. Once your visa gets approved, again you have to visit the embassy for collecting your approved visa and all your original documents.
Applying and Paying for a Visa via E-visa
Applying a visa here is completely an online process. Here you have to fill the required details, and pay the complete e-visa Vietnam fee for Australia via online while submitting the application. Here you can only select “30 days, single entry” visa type, and when it comes to the money, you have to pay more than other methods. But, your visa will get approved sooner than the local embassy.
Applying and Paying for a Visa on Arrival
The process is the same as e-visa. But here you will have more visa type to apply. And within two to three business days, your visa will get approved. In addition, if you add on to the express service, your visa will get approved within eight hours. Here you have to pay the first set Vietnam visa fee while submitting the document (online). And the second set Vietnam visa fee for Australia should be paying at your destination airport as stamp fee.
