Vietnam E-Visa for Pakistanis: 90 Days for 25 Dollars

Assalam o Alaikum. Vietnam runs the cleanest e-visa system available to a Pakistani passport. Since the August 2023 expansion opened the electronic visa to every nationality on earth, a green passport holder can obtain ninety days of Vietnam, single or multiple entry, for twenty-five or fifty US dollars, processed in roughly three working days, without visiting a single embassy. Our site already carries a ten day Vietnam itinerary; this first dedicated visa guide walks the application itself. The honest headline: the system rarely rejects good files, it bounces careless ones into amendment loops. The HTG Travels desk files Vietnam weekly, and this guide is the checklist our team uses before any client touches the portal.

The Official Portal, Step by Step

• The official system is evisa.gov.vn, run by Vietnam's Immigration Department; every other site is a middleman
• Applicants of all nationalities, Pakistan included, create the file online with personal data exactly matching the passport
• Uploads are the passport data page and a digital portrait photo against a plain background
• The form demands a full temporary address in Vietnam, a street-level hotel address, not just a city or district
• Fees are 25 USD for single entry and 50 USD for multiple entry, paid through the portal's electronic payment gateway
• Processing takes about three working days, with the result downloaded as a PDF to print and carry
• An amendment required status means a field failed somewhere; fix and resubmit rather than waiting
• E-visa holders enter and exit through Vietnam's international checkpoints, more than eighty of them, including seventeen airports

Real applicant reports repeat the same failure patterns: names that do not match the passport character for character, incomplete fields that trigger the amendment loop, hotel entries that stop at the district, and arrivals at border gates the e-visa does not serve. The payment step deserves local attention too, because the gateway needs a card that works internationally, a subject our Pakistani cards guide explains in full. Two legal boundaries matter: the e-visa does not permit work, which needs sponsored DN and LD categories, and staying longer means a new visa backed by a Vietnamese guarantor, not a simple extension. The document checklist covers the passport six-month validity rule that applies before any of this begins.

New for 2026: The Arrival Card Pilot

Vietnam is layering new digital requirements on top of the e-visa, and the first is already live. From 15 April 2026, travelers landing at Ho Chi Minh City's Tan Son Nhat airport complete a digital arrival card within seventy-two hours before landing, at the official prearrival portal, and save the QR code it generates. It is a declaration, not a visa, and forgetting it means queue friction on arrival. The pilot is expected to spread to Hanoi and Da Nang, so the HTG Travels desk treats the arrival card as standard procedure for every Vietnam file, the kind of quiet rule change we catch before the airport does.

Getting There and Getting Around

No nonstop connects Pakistan and Vietnam, so the route runs one-stop through Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur or Doha, typically 600 to 900 US dollars return depending on season, a comparison our Vietnam itinerary guide and Bangkok flight guide price in detail. Inside the country, the ten day Hanoi, Ha Long, Hoi An, Ho Chi Minh City spine is the classic first trip, while our Southeast Asia winter budget guide and the Bali versus Thailand comparison help place Vietnam against its neighbors. Muslim travelers will find the prayer and food reality manageable with planning, as our guide to Muslim travel in non-Muslim countries explains, an eSIM from our internet guide lands you online at Noi Bai, and the under 200,000 budget guide proves the whole trip fits serious budgets.

Vietnam does not say no to Pakistanis. It says: spell your name the way your passport does, and we are done in three days.

Start my Vietnam e-visa

Ek Dil Se Baat

Lanterns float on the Thu Bon river while Falasteen's nights stay dark. O Allah, Hoi An rebuilt itself from war, so rebuild Gaza from this one. Keep its children learning, its hospitals standing, and make every cheap ticket we catch carry an expensive dua for them.

How HTG Runs the Vietnam Desk

HTG Travels treats Vietnam as a precision job: your draft application checked field by field against the passport, the photo and address requirements met before payment, the arrival card filed in the seventy-two hour window, and the one-stop flights from Karachi, Lahore or Islamabad priced against the season. When the e-visa PDF lands, the same desk books the internal flights and the Ha Long bay cruise our travelers actually recommend, all on the trip planning framework the site is built around. One message starts the file, and the file usually finishes the same week.