Vietnam Visa Extension Services | Work Permit Vietnam

Foreigners wish to extend their visa for the temporary staying permission in Vietnam with the purpose for business, working, investment, study, visiting relatives, traveling, or others. They could extend their stay by using Vietnam visa extension or visa renewal service in Vietnam, conducting this service depends on their current visa and purpose, visa extension or visa renewal in Vietnam allows them to stay more in Vietnam without leaving the country. Meanwhile, Vietnam visa renewal means that you are granted a new visa stamp and visa sticker on your passport with the new duration permission. Your Visa must be extended before the expired date to make sure that you will not charged for the penalty fee of overstaying. The visa extension or visa renewal in Vietnam must be applied from 5 to 7 days before the visa expiration date, and it takes 5 working days for processing.

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT VISA RENEWAL IN VIETNAM

Renewing the Visa means that the Vietnam Immigration Department will approve a new Visa stamp on the passport with new expiry date, so you are able to stay in Vietnam until that day.

With Visa Renewal in Vietnam, you do not need to leave the country, because the Visa Renewal process will be done while you are in Vietnam.

Your Visa must be renewed before the expired date to make sure that you will not be charged for the penalty fee of overstaying. The Visa Renewal in Vietnam must be applied from 5 to 7 days before the visa expiration date, and it takes 5 working days for processing.

The Visa Renewal Vietnam includes following cases:

Business Visa: can be renewed for up to 1 year maximum
Tourist Visa: can be renewed for 3 months maximum only

*Note: The Vietnam Visa Renewal length depends on the current Visa type. So, we recommend you to contact directly to our team to check your case.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VISA EXTENSION AND RENEWAL IN VIETNAM

During processing extending or renewing visa in Vietnam, you may wonder what differences between the two are. So, let’s us analyze for you as below.

Visa Extension Vietnam: means that you will have new staying duration permission in Vietnam and this allow to stay more in Vietnam without reentering if you exit Vietnam before your visa expired. So, it means you must apply new visa if you wish to come back Vietnam after leaving. Hence the extension fee is much cheaper than Visa Renewal

In order to apply visa extension in Vietnam, your current visa has to meet some requirements of Vietnam Immigration Department. Your current visa type has to be correspondent to your staying extending requirement.

Stay in 1 more month: If your current visa is 1 month single, 1 month multiple, 3 month single or 3 month multiple entry visa, you are allowed apply for 1 more month visa extension in Vietnam.
Stay in 3 more months: If your current visa is 3 month single or 3 month multiple entry visa, you can apply to extend visa in Vietnam for 3 more months

Visa Renewal Vietnam: means that you are granted a new visa stamp and visa sticker paper on your passport with the new duration permission. The staying length is valid from 1 month to 1 year depending on the purpose of entry, needs, current visa type, nationality and what documents you already have. Moreover, Vietnam Visa Renewal fee is higher thanVisa Extension fee because we have to pay for visa stamping fee and visa sticker fee. Visa renewal in Vietnam is ready for someone who has a valid visa with visa sticker paper and visa code of DN, LD, DT, NN1, NN2, LV and DL.

CONDITIONS FOR VISA RENEWAL IN VIETNAM

To obtain Vietnam Visa Renewal, please check these following requirements whether you meet or not.

Providing the proof of temporary residence in Vietnam certified the local police department;
A valid Vietnam’s visa and passport;
The visa renewal application must have a sponsored company in Vietnam;
The duration of a visa shall be at least 30 days shorter than that of a passport or international laissez-passer.

STEPS TO APPLY FOR VISA RENEWAL IN VIETNAM

With the aim of getting more and more opportunities to assist our international clients, Visa5s.com has also provided visa extension/renewal service in Vietnam. If you live in Ho Chi Minh City or neighbor provinces, cities, we have our expert team to advise the best solution on visa renewal or visa extension in Vietnam based on the current visa type, and our team also comes in person to pick up your documents at your address.

Before confirming the service of visa extension or visa renewal in Vietnam, we recommend you follow the below steps:

Step 1: Providing us scanned copies of your passport, current Vietnam visa, Vietnam entry stamp and port of entry name, and the most important things if your needs. We are reviewing your documents and advise at least 2 options for your choice

Vietnam visa renewal service or
Vietnam visa extension service

Step 2: We confirm the suitable solution and inform you about Vietnam visa renewal fee and processing time

Step 3: Preparing all required documents for Visa renewal in Vietnam

The original passport;
A valid Vietnam visa marked as DL, VR or visa exemption stamp.
Port of entry name;
Your current address in Vietnam;
Original certificate of temporary residence in Vietnam (if any);

Step 4: Submitting the dossiers to Vietnam Immigration Department for Visa renewal in Vietnam, if the documents are sufficient condition, you just wait for the visa renewal result around 7 working days

Step 5: Collecting the result of Vietnam visa renewal and handing over the passport and new visa stamp to you.

REQUIRED DOCUMENTS FOR VISA RENEWAL IN VIETNAM

Foreigners who are working, staying and having the sponsor company in Vietnam, containing a valid visa and passport marked the visa type of DN / LD / NN1 / NN2 / TT should have dossiers as follows:

Company’s legal entity files include:

Notarized certified copy of business registration certificate or investment registration certificate or establish Representative Office;
Seal registration certificate and tax code registration certificate (if any);

The original passport;
A valid Vietnam visa;
Vietnam work permit (if any);
Visa renewal form signed and sealed by company’s legal representative
Original certificate of temporary residence in Vietnam (residence record);
In case of that foreigners accompany with their relatives, it’s required to provide the written proof of family relationships (the documents must be legalized, translated and notarized comply with the provisions of law):

The relatives recognized as spouse must have a marriage certificate;
The relatives recognized as children must have a birth certificate.

WHERE TO APPLY FOR VISA RENEWAL IN VIETNAM

The processing time for visa renewal in Vietnam from 5 to 7 working days, here are the contact details of the three major Immigration Departments located in all 3 of the major regions of Vietnam – North, Center and South:

In Ho Chi Minh City:

The Ho Chi Minh City Police Department's Immigration Office: 196 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street, Ward 6, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City
Ministry of Public Security Department Of Immigration: 254 Nguyen Trai Street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City

In Da Nang:

Police Department's Immigration Office: 78 Le Loi, Thach Thang, Hai Chau, Da Nang 550000
Ministry of Public Security Department Of Immigration: 7 Tran Quy Cap, Da Nang City

In Ha Noi:

Ha Noi Police Department's Immigration Office 44 Pham Ngoc Thach, Phuong Lien, Dong Da, Ha Noi
Ministry of Public Security Department Of Immigration: 44-46 Tran Phu Street, Hanoi, Vietnam

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