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[totlanh]

Hi All ,
Myself and my wife(from Hoi an)and daughter are returning to Vietnam in Jan for 1 year.Does anyone know wnything about the new Visa exemption certificate.My understanding is that it is valid for a period of 5 years and you are allowed a stay not exceeding 90 days.Now i have read in some sites that this can be extended whilst other people(including the embassy in London)says you cant.If you cant extend it i wonder if you could nip over the border for a couple of days and on return get another 90 days.Any thoughts anybody?Failing all this i guess i have to get a business visa.Is it possibile to get one of these even if you are not working??Any thoughts or advise on this would be greatly appreciated

[ChuckECheese]

I don't have a clue as to what you're talking about.

Why do you think you should get a visa exemption? Are a vietkieu?

[totlanh]

Perhaps this may clarify it for you

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has given the nod to a new regulation allowing overseas Vietnamese and their families to enter Vietnam without visas as of September 1.
However, overseas Vietnamese and their spouse and children must still obtain a visa exemption certificate, which allows multiple entries and a stay of up to three months at a time.

The certificate will be valid five years.

To obtain the certificates, overseas Vietnamese are required to submit one of the three following documents at an official representative office in their country of residence:

� a document (such as a birth certificate) from a Vietnamese agency that proves they are ethnically Vietnamese;
� a guarantee by an overseas Vietnamese association based in the country in which they reside or by a Vietnamese citizen; or
� a document from an authorized foreign agency certifying that they are ethnically Vietnamese.

Husbands, wives and children of Vietnamese people living abroad will also need to submit documents that prove their relationship to the Vietnamese member of their immediate family.

[ChuckECheese]

It seems to me it's a typical F-ed up law if you're planning on staying longer than 90 days.

Let me get this straight:

1. If your overseas VNese (Viet Kieu), you can get visa exemption certficated from respective VN embassies which is good for 5 years.

2. You & your family members can stay up to 90 days without visas. But you must leave VN before 90 days are up and there's no way of extending your stay.

If VN embassy says that this is the case, as you said, you can make a short hop over to Cambodia and just return.

Here is a weblink concerning "How to get a certificate of visa exemption" (all in Vietnamese). I hope you can read VNese and this helps.

http://www.vietnamembassy-usa.org/consular_services/visa_exemption/

[kneebarx]

is there an english version?

[ChuckECheese]

[kneebarx]

Maybe someone can translate?