VIETNAM VISA PROCEDURES FOR FOREIGNERS AND VIETNAMESE WITH FOREIGN PASSPORTS

Last updated on August 16, 2021 
 

Central Level Administrative Procedures: Registration For Exit And Entry Through Automatic Control Gate

Order of execution:

Step 1: Prepare documents according to the provisions of law.

Step 2: Submit your application

*** Case of direct application

- Those who wish to register for exit and entry through automatic control gate shall directly submit their documents at one of the two working offices of the Immigration Department - the Ministry of Public Security:

+ Number 44-46 Tran Phu street, Ba Dinh district, Hanoi city.

+ Number 333-335-337 Nguyen Trai Street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City.

Or they can directly submit the application at the immigration control units where there are automatic control gates operating under the Immigration Department, the Ministry of Public Security.

- Present your passport, entry and exit documents for inspection. For Vietnamese citizens using passports to countries that do not exempt visas for entry, they must present visas or papers certifying and proving that they can enter the country of entry; for foreigners, they are required to present permanent or temporary residence cards. 

- Immigration officers receive documents, check the legality and content of the documents, take fingerprints according to regulations and immediately notify the results to the applicants to let them know.

- Time to receive documents: from Monday to Saturday morning every week (except New Year's Day and public holidays). Particularly for the case of applying for the automatic control gate of the Immigration Department, the Ministry of Public Security, it will be done 24/24 hours.

***Case of registration through the public service portal of the Ministry of Public Security

Those who wish to register for exit and entry by automatic control gate should access the website of the Ministry of Public Security at http://bocongan.gov.vn, go to the category "Public services", select Select the administrative procedure field "Immigration Management", select the corresponding registration procedure and continue with the following steps:

+ Fill in all information, schedule an appointment to complete the registration procedure at the point of direct application;

+ Print the declaration;

+ Bring the declaration and other necessary documents as required to complete the procedures at the point of direct application.

* The registration is done only once; When there is a change or addition of information in the passport, valid documents on entry and exit from Vietnam, or visas, papers certifying and proving that the country of destination is allowed to enter, the additional information must be declared according to the form. M01.

Step 3: Get the result

Receive notification immediately after submitting all required documents. In case of ineligibility for exit or entry through the automatic control gate, there will be a written notice clearly stating the reason.

- How to do it: Directly submit the application documents to the addressed stated above or register through the Public Service Portal of the Ministry of Public Security before coming to submit the documents and directly receive the results.

- Composition, number of file:

+ Declaration of registration, supplementing information on exit and entry by automatic control gate (Vietnamese citizens use form M01; foreigners use form M02).

+ Portrait photo 4cm x 6cm (bare head, eyes looking straight, no glasses).

+ Number of documents: 01 (one) set.

- Time limit for processing: Notify results immediately after receiving complete documents of Vietnamese citizens or foreigners.

- People carrying out administrative procedures: Vietnamese citizens or foreigners wishing to exit or enter through automatic control gate.

- Agencies performing administrative procedures: Immigration Department, Ministry of Public Security (including immigration control units affiliated with automatic control gates).

- Results of administrative procedures:

Notice of approval or disapproval (with a written explanation clearly stating the reason) on the registration of exit and entry through the automatic control gate.

- Fees and charges: no.

- Name of application form, declaration form: Declaration of registration and supplementation of exit and entry information by automatic control gate (forms M01; M02) issued together with Decree No. 77/2020/ND-CP dated 1/7/2020.

- Requirements and conditions for carrying out administrative procedures: Vietnamese citizens or foreigners wishing to exit or enter through the automatic control gate must carry out procedures for registration of exit and entry through the checkpoint with automatic control in the following cases:

+ Vietnamese citizens use passports with electronic chips to go to countries where entry visas are not exempt.

+ Vietnamese citizens use passports without electronic chips.

+ Law on entry, exit, transit and residence of foreigners in Vietnam.

+ Foreigners with permanent residence cards or temporary residence cards issued by competent Vietnamese agencies.

- Legal basis of administrative procedures:

+ A number of articles of the Law on entry, exit, transit and residence of foreigners in Vietnam that have been amended and supplemented. 

+ Decree No. 77/2020/ND-CP dated July 1, 2020 of the Government stipulating the management and exploitation of information in the National Immigration Database; online public services for the issuance, management and control of passports of Vietnamese citizens; control entry and exit by automatic control gate.

+ Circular No. 110/2020/TT-BCA dated October 16, 2020 of the Minister of Public Security stipulating the process of collecting fingerprints of applicants for passports with electronic chips and exit entry through automatic control gate.