Vietnam Visa for Bangladeshi Citizens

Bangladeshi citizens need a visa to visit Vietnam, with no visa-free allowance of any length, and the e-visa from Vietnam's Immigration Department is the way to get one. Since 2023 the national portal has accepted applications from every nationality, Bangladesh included, and the visa it issues covers up to 90 days. We file the single-entry e-visa at USD 75 and the multiple-entry one at USD 100, all-in, and a member of our team checks your file before it goes in.

The paperwork is lighter than many Bangladeshi travellers expect. There is no bank statement, no invitation letter and no flight booking to upload — only the photo page of your passport and a recent portrait. The portal compares the two automatically, so the photo should be a fresh one: face straight to the camera, white background, no hat, no glasses, and only one person in the frame. A passport image with a cut-off corner or blurred machine-readable lines is the kind of thing we ask you to rescan.

Whether you apply from Dhaka, Chittagong or Dubai makes no difference. Vietnam decides by passport, not by residence, so the many Bangladeshis working in the UAE use exactly the same application as their relatives at home. When you travel, enter through one of the gates the Government lists for the e-visa — every international airport is on it, together with 27 land crossings and the seaports — and leave through a listed gate as well.

There is no real visa on arrival in Vietnam, whatever some websites suggest; the airport only stamps approval letters arranged through a Vietnamese sponsor before you leave. Apply for the e-visa two to three weeks ahead instead, because its 90 days start on the issue date rather than on landing. Processing is three working days officially, and we promise three to five after our check, longer around Tet in late January or February. Children under 14 travelling on a parent's passport go on the same e-visa.