23 visa-free countries for Vietnam passport holders
Vietnam passport holders can enter 23 of the 210 countries we hold entry rules for without applying for a visa in advance. A further 22 issue a visa on arrival at the border. 67 can be applied for online before you travel. Every country below links to the full rule for a Vietnam passport: the stay it allows, the passport validity required and any arrival registration to complete separately.
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Visa-free
23Admitted on arrival with nothing applied for in advance. Passport validity and any arrival registration still apply.
- Barbados90 days
- Belarus30 days
- Brunei14 days
- Cambodia30 days
- Chile90 days
- Dominica21 days
- Haiti90 days
- Indonesia30 days
- Iran15 days
- Kazakhstan30 days
- Kyrgyzstan60 days
- Laos30 days
- Malaysia30 days
- Micronesia30 days
- Mongolia30 days
- Myanmar30 days
- PalestineVisa-free
- Panama90 days
- Philippines30 days
- Rwanda90 days
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines90 days
- Singapore30 days
- Thailand60 days
Visa on arrival
22Issued at the border, usually for a fee. The documents it requires are checked at the counter rather than corrected there.
- Burundi30 days
- Comoros45 days
- Djibouti30 days
- Guinea-Bissau90 days
- Jordan30 days
- Madagascar90 days
- Malawi30 days
- Maldives30 days
- Marshall Islands90 days
- Mauritius60 days
- Mozambique30 days
- Namibia90 days
- Nepal150 days
- Palau30 days
- Paraguay14 days
- Saint Lucia42 days
- Samoa90 days
- Sierra Leone30 days
- Tajikistan45 days
- Tanzania90 days
- Timor-Leste30 days
- Tuvalu30 days
e-Visa
49Applied for and approved online before you travel, with no embassy appointment.
- Afghanistan30 days
- Albania90 days
- Anguilla90 days
- Antigua & Barbudae-Visa
- Armenia120 days
- Azerbaijan30 days
- Bahrain30 days
- Benin30 days
- Bhutan90 days
- Botswana30 days
- Burkina Faso90 days
- Chad90 days
- Colombia30 days
- Cote d'Ivoire90 days
- Cuba90 days
- DR Congo7 days
- El Salvador90 days
- Equatorial Guineae-Visa
- Ethiopia90 days
- Gabon30 days
- Georgia30 days
- Ghanae-Visa
- Guinea90 days
- India30 days
- Iraq30 days
- Japan90 days
- Liberia90 days
- Libyae-Visa
- Mauritania90 days
- Montserrat360 days
- Morocco30 days
- Nicaragua30 days
- Nigeria30 days
- Pakistan30 days
- Qatar30 days
- Russia30 days
- Saint Kitts and Nevise-Visa
- Sao Tome and Principe30 days
- Somalia30 days
- South Sudan30 days
- Syria30 days
- Togo15 days
- Trinidad and Tobagoe-Visa
- Turkey30 days
- Uganda90 days
- Uzbekistan30 days
- Vanuatu120 days
- Zambia90 days
- Zimbabwe30 days
Visa required in advance
111Apply before you travel. Some of these start online and still involve biometrics, an appointment and several weeks, so open the country for the detail.
- AlgeriaVisa required
- AndorraVisa required
- Angola30 days
- ArgentinaVisa required
- ArubaVisa required
- AustraliaVisa (apply online)
- AustriaVisa required
- Bahamas90 days
- BangladeshVisa required
- BelgiumVisa required
- BelizeVisa required
- BermudaVisa required
- BoliviaVisa (apply online)
- Bosnia & HerzegovinaVisa required
- BrazilVisa required
- British Virgin IslandsVisa required
- BulgariaVisa required
- Cameroon180 days
- CanadaVisa required
- Cape VerdeVisa required
- Cayman IslandsVisa required
- Central African RepublicVisa required
- ChinaVisa (apply online)
- Costa RicaVisa required
- CroatiaVisa required
- CuracaoVisa required
- CyprusVisa required
- Czech RepublicVisa required
- DenmarkVisa required
- Dominican RepublicVisa required
- EcuadorVisa (apply online)
- EgyptVisa required
- EritreaVisa required
- EstoniaVisa required
- EswatiniVisa required
- FijiVisa (apply online)
- FinlandVisa required
- FranceVisa required
- GambiaVisa required
- GermanyVisa required
- GreeceVisa required
- GrenadaVisa required
- GuadeloupeVisa required
- GuatemalaVisa required
- GuyanaVisa (apply online)
- HondurasVisa required
- Hong KongVisa (apply online)
- HungaryVisa required
- IcelandVisa required
- IrelandVisa (apply online)
- IsraelVisa required
- ItalyVisa required
- JamaicaVisa required
- KiribatiVisa required
- KosovoVisa required
- KuwaitVisa required
- LatviaVisa required
- LebanonVisa required
- LesothoVisa required
- LiechtensteinVisa required
- LithuaniaVisa required
- LuxembourgVisa required
- MacauVisa required
- MaliVisa required
- MaltaVisa required
- MartiniqueVisa required
- MexicoVisa required
- Moldova90 days
- MonacoVisa required
- MontenegroVisa required
- NauruVisa required
- NetherlandsVisa required
- New Zealand180 days
- NigerVisa required
- North KoreaVisa required
- North MacedoniaVisa required
- NorwayVisa required
- OmanVisa required
- PeruVisa required
- PolandVisa required
- PortugalVisa required
- Republic of the CongoVisa required
- RomaniaVisa required
- Saint MartinVisa required
- San MarinoVisa required
- Saudi ArabiaVisa required
- SenegalVisa required
- Serbia90 days
- Sint Maarten (Dutch part)Visa required
- SlovakiaVisa required
- SloveniaVisa required
- Solomon IslandsVisa required
- South AfricaVisa required
- South KoreaVisa (apply online)
- SpainVisa required
- SudanVisa required
- SwedenVisa required
- SwitzerlandVisa required
- TaiwanVisa required
- TongaVisa required
- TunisiaVisa required
- TurkmenistanVisa required
- Turks and Caicos IslandsVisa required
- UAEVisa (apply online)
- UkraineVisa required
- United Kingdom180 days
- United StatesVisa required
- UruguayVisa required
- Vatican CityVisa required
- VenezuelaVisa (apply online)
- YemenVisa required
Common questions
Travelling on a Vietnam passport, answered from the same rules listed above.
23, out of the 210 countries covered here. That counts destinations admitting a Vietnam passport with nothing applied for in advance. It does not count the 22 that issue a visa at the border or the 49 with an e-visa, which are listed separately below.
Barbados, Belarus, Brunei, Cambodia, Chile, Dominica, Haiti and Indonesia and 15 more, grouped in the list above by what each one asks for. Every country links to the exact rule, because the stay a visa-free entry allows ranges widely between them.
22 of the 210 listed, including Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Guinea-Bissau, Jordan, Madagascar, Malawi and Maldives. A visa on arrival is issued at the border, and the fee and documents it requires are checked at the counter rather than corrected there.
49 of the 210 listed, including Afghanistan, Albania, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain and Benin. An e-visa is applied for and approved online before you travel, with no embassy appointment.
Yes, for Kenya, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles, Sri Lanka and Suriname. A travel authorisation is not a visa — it is an online pre-screening of travellers who already need no visa — but it must be approved before you board, and an airline will refuse check-in without it.
Yes. Every Schengen country in this list requires a visa for a Vietnam passport. One short-stay Schengen visa covers all 29 members, so you apply once — to the country you will spend the most time in — rather than per destination.
Other passports
The same question on a different nationality. Rules differ sharply between passports, so check the one you will actually travel on.
- Lithuania
- Germany
- United Kingdom
- United States
- France
- Poland
- Netherlands
- Spain
- Italy
- Brazil
- India
- China
- Turkey
- Nigeria
- South Africa
- Philippines
- Pakistan
- Bangladesh
- Indonesia
- Egypt
Check any passport against any destination