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[junan70]

Hiya

I appreciate that the answer to this may already be 'somewhere' on the forum, but sheesh I've looked and it's a BIG forum.

Basically I am waiting on a possible job offer in Vietnam. If that doesn't happen, I will head over from the UK and look while I'm there.

What visa do I need to get before I head over? If I get a tourist visa, can I then get a job and secure the necessary work visa once there?

Responses much appreciated.....still one of the most informative forums on this web site if you ask me

[BootOfTheBeast]

Since no one else has answered, and I'm trying to get my posts up...

Get a 3 month tourist visa. If/when you get a job the school should then apply for a work visa for you.

Boot

[junan70]

Boot

You're a legend.....

Think that's what I'm gonna do as the school I've applied to won't/can't tell me until late July what the vacancies are gonna be in August. Lose my flat at end of July, so need to get flights and visas sorted asap.

I just wasn't sure if I needed to go to the country with a business visa. 3 month Tourist visa it is.

Cheers....have a good un'.

[BootOfTheBeast]

No problem.

A couple of other things re visa:

1) Make sure you have a couple of passport photos in your hand luggage (you can't claim your checked luggage until you've cleared passport control/immigration) as the visa desk will want at least one for their records.

2) make a note of you passport number, date of issue, date of expiry, and keep that with you as the nice officer may take your passport from you before handing you a form to fill in requiring the above info.

3) Have US dollars ready: single entry visas $25 and a multiple entry ones $50.

4) If you are coming off a flight with a lot of Westerners on, be prepared for a scrum and a long wait - it's every man for himself!

Boot

[inky]

Boot, are you talking about Vietnam or Cambodia? Or pre-arranged Vietnam visa? If junan goes through the normal visa process in his home country, he won't have to deal with any of the issues you mention. Arriving with a visa in your passport couldn't be simpler, no photos needed, no forms to fill out. A quick, simple stamp and you go get your luggage.

[junan70]

Junan is a SHE...but thanks for the response!

I've been through Vietnam before albeit overland. I will have a tourist visa (3 months) and the necessary paperwork to apply for a work visa in Vietnam should I get a job. I hadn't anticipated Vietnamese customs being a scrum, I don't recall any such horror stories in the past.

[BootOfTheBeast]

inky,

I supposedly had a visa "waiting for collection" that was arranged in HCMC (by a school, not a 3rd party company), and was carrying a printout of the same, but the immigration official just took the copy from me, handed me the same form as everyone else... it was my first time through and maybe I was just unlucky with the volume of people he was dealing with? Or maybe I didn't follow the correct procedure? Probably the latter!

Junan, if you arrange your visa in the UK (which I didn't) as inky says you may have no need of the above measures, but never hurts to be prepared for every eventuality.

Boot

PS it wasn't a horror story, just a lot of impatient passengers with a language barrier and no manners left after a long journey.