Foreigners who want to enter Vietnam with different purposes must have an official immigration letter to enter Vietnam. This letter is not a visa. After having the official immigration letter, the applicant can have visa stamped to his/her passport. Visavietnamsupport would like to provide you with some useful information about immigration letter 

1. What is immigration letter

- In short, an immigration letter is a written permission for entry (or approved invitation letter) from Vietnam Immigration Department that allows foreigners to enter Vietnam once. It would be easier to apply for a Vietnam visa at the Vietnamese Embassy abroad or at international airports when having a letter of immigration.

- To apply for a immigration letter, you should contact a local Vietnam visa agency for foreigners such as Visavietnamsupport. The process will be done quickly and conveniently.

2.Types of Immigration letter

To date, there are 4 types of Immigration letter:

+ Immigration letter for visitors: issued for visitors entering Vietnam only for traveling.  A Vietnam travel agency will apply for this document at Vietnam Immigration Department  (visa DL)

+ Immigration letter for business:  issued for  foreigners entering Vietnam for a short-term position in Vietnam. A Vietnamese company that the applicans intend to work for will apply for this document at Vietnam Immigration Department  (visa DN)

+ Immigration letter for visting relatives: issued for foreigners entering Vietnam for the purpose of visiting their relatives, people who have spouses or parents working under Vietname work permit or have spouses or parents as investors in Vietnam (visa VR or TT)

+ Immigration letter for labour import: issued for foreigners having work permit in Vietnam and looking for a long-term position. They're issued LĐ visas and can apply for temporary resident cards

3. Procedures to apply for immigration letter

+ 2 places to apply for Vietnam visas:

1. Border gates (airports or border checkpoints)

2. Vietnam Embassy at the host country

4.Documents to apply for immigration letter for foreigners

- Scanned passport

- Entry date

- Visa inssuing offices

- For business visa applicants, additional documents are: certificate of business registration of the guarantee company, letter of recommendation from a Vietnam company, corporation or organization

- For visitor visa applicants, a copy of passport and immigration documents and visa issuing office

- For commercial visa applicants: scanned passport and documents of guarantee from company. If there is no guarantee company, contact us for support.

- For applicants of visa for visiting relatives: 

+ Request letter from the inviter (individual, organization,etc)

+ Immigration information: date, border gates, single or multiple entry visas, visa validity and visa issuing office.

+ Passport of the invited

+ Other documents such as proof of legal entity status of the inviting organization, proof of the relationship between the inviter, the guarantor and the foreigner

5. Where to apply for an immigration letter

Benefits of choosing Visavietnamsupport service

- We offer free and helpful consultance and instructions via phone or meetings in person at our office.

- We help customers complete the documents and hand them to the Embassy for immigration letter application

- Notify customers the results as soon as possible

- If immigration letter application is sucessful, we will contact customers to come and get it. If they are too far away, we will use deivery service and you'll have them in the meantime

- The cost for our service is competitve and money-saving

- Our motto " We get none until we have things done" brings in trust and creditility

- We have immigration letter done in a short time, meeting the urgent demands of customers.

The service cost might vary depending on time and visa types.  To get updated, please contact Hotline : 0989.496.239 – Ms.Hương for consultance and support.