Vietnam Visa for Nepalese 2026: Fee, Documents and How to Apply

The Vietnam visa for Nepalese travellers is an e-visa that you apply for online and must have approved before you fly. The government fee is USD 25 for a single entry, about NPR 3,900, or USD 50 for multiple entries, about NPR 7,700. It allows a stay of up to 90 days and is usually issued within three to five working days. Vietnam is not visa-free for a Nepali passport, and there is no visa you can simply buy at the airport when you land.

Two more things decide whether the trip goes smoothly. Every foreign visitor fills in Vietnam's free pre-arrival declaration in the three days before landing. And the visa is issued for the dates and the entry airport you put on the form, so both have to match your flights. The fee is set in US dollars, so the rupee amounts on this page are approximate.

Do Nepalese citizens need a visa for Vietnam?

Yes. Every Nepali passport holder needs a visa approved before travelling to Vietnam, because Nepal is not on Vietnam's visa exemption list. The simplest one to get is the e-visa, which Vietnam issues to citizens of every country through the Immigration Department's official e-Visa portal.

One e-visa covers the whole country: Hanoi, Ha Long Bay, Da Nang, Hoi An, Ho Chi Minh City and Phu Quoc. It is the right visa for a holiday. It does not allow you to work in Vietnam.

Airlines check for the visa at the counter in Kathmandu. Without an approved one, you will not be allowed to board.

How much does the Vietnam visa cost for Nepalese?

The government fee is USD 25 for a single-entry e-visa and USD 50 for a multiple-entry e-visa. It is the same for a stay of five days or the full 90. At Nepal Rastra Bank's selling rate of NPR 154.41 to the dollar in early October 2026, that is about NPR 3,900 and NPR 7,700.

You pay online by card when you submit the form, and the fee is not refunded if the visa is refused. That makes it worth getting the form right the first time.

Only two addresses are official: evisa.gov.vn and thithucdientu.gov.vn. Many other sites look official and charge several times the government fee for the same visa. If the address does not end in .gov.vn, you are not on the government's site.

What documents does the Vietnam e-visa need?

The application needs two uploads: a photo of your passport's data page and a recent portrait photo. Everything else is typed into the form: your personal details, your travel dates, the airport where you will enter Vietnam and the address where you will first stay.

• Passport: It has to stay valid for at least 30 days after the last day of your visa. We advise travelling with at least six months left on it.

• Portrait photo: A recent 4 x 6 cm photo in JPG format, under 2 MB, with a white background. Face the camera, with no hat and no glasses.

• Passport page: The whole data page, sharp and without glare, including the two lines of letters and numbers at the bottom. The system reads your details from this image and will not accept one it cannot read.

• Your name: Type your full name in capital letters, exactly as it appears in those two lines at the bottom of the passport page.

• Address in Vietnam: If you are staying in several places, give the first one.

Every answer is typed in English, and every question has to be answered truthfully, including the ones about earlier trips. An application with false information is refused.

Should you choose a single-entry or a multiple-entry visa?

Choose single entry if you will fly into Vietnam once and fly out once, which covers most holidays. Choose multiple entry if your route leaves Vietnam and comes back, for example a few days in Cambodia or Laos in the middle of the trip.

A single-entry visa ends the moment you leave Vietnam, even if most of its 90 days are unused. An e-visa cannot be applied for from inside Vietnam, so coming back would mean a new application and a wait in another country. If there is any chance of a side trip, the extra USD 25 for multiple entry is cheap insurance.

The e-visa is accepted at 15 international airports, 27 land border crossings and 39 seaports. The form asks where you will enter and where you will leave, and the two can be different, so flying into Hanoi and out of Ho Chi Minh City is fine.

How do you apply for the Vietnam e-visa from Nepal?

You apply on the Immigration Department's e-Visa portal, and the whole process is online. There is no interview and no passport to hand in.

1. Open the official portal. The address is evisa.gov.vn. Choose the application for foreigners outside Vietnam.

2. Upload your two photos. The portrait and the passport page. The system fills in your passport details from the image. Check each one against the passport and correct anything it misread.

3. Fill in the trip. Single or multiple entry, the dates you want the visa to cover, the airport where you will enter, and your first address in Vietnam.

4. Review and submit. Read every line once more, then enter the verification code. Keep the application code you are given, which the portal calls the electronic profile ID, because you need it to check your result.

5. Pay online. Enter your card details and the one-time password from your bank.

6. Download the visa. The result comes by email and on the portal. Print two copies and keep one on your phone.

The payment step is where a Nepali card can let you down. The fee is charged in US dollars, so an ordinary rupee debit card will not work. You need a dollar card from your bank with enough of its yearly limit left, and the one-time password has to reach your phone.

The portal runs on Vietnam time, which is 1 hour 15 minutes ahead of Nepal. Working days are counted on Vietnam's calendar, not ours.

How long does the Vietnam visa take?

Allow three to five working days. That is the processing time the Vietnam Consulate in Kathmandu gives for a complete application. Weekends and Vietnamese public holidays are not counted, and the long Tet new year holiday in late January or February slows everything down.

Apply about two weeks before you fly. You can apply up to a year ahead, so there is no reason to leave it to the last few days.

The visa is issued for a fixed period of up to 90 days, based on the travel dates you give on the form, so those dates are the part of the application to think about hardest. Give the earliest day you might arrive as your entry date, not the day you hope to arrive. Ask for a period that ends a few days after your return flight, to cover a delay or a cancelled connection. A longer period costs nothing extra, because the fee is the same for 5 days or 90. Being generous with the dates is free, and being exact can be expensive: if the airline moves your flight outside the period printed on your visa, the visa no longer covers the trip, and you would have to apply and pay again. Staying past the last day on the visa, even by one day, is an overstay. Check both dates as soon as the visa arrives.

How do you check your Vietnam visa status?

You check it on the same portal, on its search page. Enter your electronic profile ID, which is the code you were given when you applied, along with the email address you used and your date of birth. The result is also sent to that email address.

When the visa is granted, download it and check every detail against your passport: the spelling of your name, the passport number, the dates and the entry airport. A mistake is far easier to fix from Kathmandu than at an immigration desk in Hanoi.

Can Nepali passport holders get a visa on arrival in Vietnam?

Not by simply turning up. Vietnam issues a visa at the airport only to travellers who already hold an approval letter arranged before the flight. A Nepali passport holder with no paperwork will not be allowed to board in Kathmandu.

The approval letter route does exist. The Vietnam Consulate in Kathmandu, an honorary consulate on Rani Devi Marg in Lazimpat, helps Nepali citizens with approval letters and with trips the e-visa does not suit. That includes business visits, which need an approval document arranged by the company you are visiting in Vietnam. The consulate is open Sunday to Friday, 9:30 am to 5:30 pm, and gives its fees on request.

For a holiday, the e-visa is simpler. There is nothing to collect at the airport, and you walk straight to the immigration desk with a printed visa.

What is Vietnam's pre-arrival declaration, and do you need it?

It is a free online form that every foreign passenger now completes for Vietnamese immigration, and it is separate from your visa. Fill it in at prearrival.immigration.gov.vn in the three days before you arrive, and save the QR code it gives you. You show that code at the immigration desk.

• Do not fill it in too early. It can be completed no more than three days before you arrive in Vietnam. With a long connection, count from your landing day, not from the day you leave Kathmandu.

• You can do it at the airport, but do not plan to. There is a QR code and a paper form in the arrival hall. Doing it there means one more queue after a long journey.

• It is free. The only official address ends in immigration.gov.vn. Ignore any site that asks you to pay for it.

Which airport should you put on your Vietnam visa?

Put the airport where your flight first lands in Vietnam, because that is where you go through immigration. There is no direct flight from Kathmandu to Vietnam, so every route connects through a hub such as Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur or Delhi, and your first Vietnamese airport depends on which part of the country you are starting in.

This is why the flights and the visa should be planned together. Decide the route first, then apply with the matching airport and dates. Once the visa is issued, the entry point cannot normally be changed. If you have not chosen a route yet, our guide to five less-visited places in Vietnam is a good place to start.

One more point about the connection. Book the whole journey on one ticket where you can, so that you stay inside the transit airport. If you have to collect your bags and check in again in Bangkok or Kuala Lumpur, you are entering that country, and both need a visa from Nepali passport holders. Our guide to the Thailand visa from Nepal explains what that involves.

Do you need an agent for the Vietnam visa?

No. If you have a dollar card and a clear photo of your passport, you can apply for the e-visa yourself in one sitting for USD 25. For a simple trip with fixed flights, that is what we would tell a friend to do.

Help is worth having in three situations.

• You have no dollar card, or its yearly limit is already used.

• Your route is not simple. A trip that crosses into Cambodia or Laos, or flights that are not fixed yet, makes the dates, the entry airport and the single or multiple choice easy to get wrong. A wrong choice costs a second fee.

• You are travelling as a family or a group. Each person needs their own application, and one rejected photo holds up everyone.

No one outside the Vietnamese government can guarantee approval or a faster decision, and that includes us.

How Travel Nepal Holidays handles your Vietnam visa

We prepare and submit the e-visa for you from Kathmandu and pay the fee, so you do not need a dollar card. You send us a clear photo of your passport page, a portrait photo and your travel plan.

• Photo and passport check. We make sure both images meet the rules before they are uploaded, so the application is not held up over a photo.

• Dates and airport matched to your flights. We set the visa dates and the entry airport from your actual route, with a few days of margin at the end.

• Payment. We pay the government fee in dollars and confirm the amount with you first.

• Families and groups. We check every application together, so the names, dates and airports all agree.

• Pre-arrival declaration. We send you the link three days before you land, so the QR code is ready when you reach immigration.

Vietnam can change visa fees and rules at short notice. The e-Visa portal's payment page always shows the current fee, and we confirm it with you before applying on your behalf.