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Ethan Allen Hawley · Joined: 04 Jun 2006

Has anyone entered Vietnam from China or anywhere else and got a visa in those other countries? I'm headed to Beijing and time is tight. I would like to get the visa here but if I can apply for and pick it up whilst in Beijing it would work well. One website written in Vinglish though seemed to imply that the application had to be logged in the nation of current residence (and I currently live in SK).

Anyone have experience with this set of issues that allows them to say for sure?

lemak · Joined: 02 Jan 2011

Will you be passing through Nanning?
That's supposed to be next day turn around.
Or if you'll be flying into Vietnam from China you can book and pay for the Viet visa online.

Ethan Allen Hawley · Joined: 04 Jun 2006

Just to answer my own question - further confirmed by a Chinese friend in Beijing just recently - yes, there is a Vietnamese consulate in Nanning:
http://www.vietnamconsulate-nanning.org/en/nr070627101148/

Not sure how long it's supposed to take yet, but, from reading various threads here on Dave's and elsewhere, it seems that it's all variable, with anything from a matter of hours through to five days.

I think it's useful to start logging such information here, as the brand spanking shiny new north-south super-fast train is set to start running from Beijing to Guangzhou on the 26th, and, Obama is about to appoint someone who actually talks honestly about climate change. Alternatives to flying are about to "take off" as it were.

ttompatz · Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Kwangju, South Korea

Ethan Allen Hawley · Joined: 04 Jun 2006

One can only "do it online" if taking a noisy, smelly, dirty, dangerous, carbon-barfing airplane.

If traveling overland, one must get a visa before arrival at the immigration office.

actionjackson · Joined: 30 Dec 2007 Location: Any place I'm at

I did it in Laos a few years back and this is how went down for me. I don't know if the guy was in a good mood or what but I caught him right before he was set to go home. He took me in and said that normally it would take 4 days but for some reason he did the whole thing right then and there, ended up taking about 30 minutes. Not much help really but the guy working at the Vietnamese embassy/consulate in Vientiane said is was supposed to take 4 days.