Vietnam E-Visa: Official Site, $25 Real Fee, How to Avoid 4x Middleman Markup (2026)
Vietnam's e-visa has a real $25 government fee. Middlemen charge $80-200. Here is the official site and how to apply directly.
What the Vietnam E-Visa actually is
The Vietnam E-Visa is an electronic visa issued by the Vietnamese Immigration Department, valid for tourism, business, transit, and several other purposes. It replaced most paper visa-on-arrival processes for ~80 eligible nationalities starting around 2017 and was further expanded in 2024.
It costs $25 USD for single-entry or $50 USD for multi-entry. This is a real government fee, not a service charge. It is paid directly to the Vietnamese Immigration Department through the official site.
The catch is not the fee. The catch is that the first three results when you Google “vietnam e-visa” are middlemen charging two to eight times the official fee, and most travelers do not know there is an official site.
The problem
If you Google “vietnam e-visa” right now, you will see paid ads for sites charging $89, $129, $179 USD for the same form. Some of them do submit your application to the real official site. They keep the markup. Some submit a slightly different visa or just an invitation letter that does not work as a visa, and you find out at the gate.
The Vietnamese Immigration Department has issued multiple public statements that only evisa.xuatnhapcanh.gov.vn is the authorized e-visa site. Travel agencies and visa services that submit on your behalf are not illegal, but they are also not necessary, and they do not get you a visa any faster, easier, or more reliably than going direct.
Before you touch any form
Check the address bar. The official site is evisa.xuatnhapcanh.gov.vn and nothing else.
Not vietnam-evisa.org. Not evisa-vietnam.com. Not vietnam-visa-online.com. Anyone can register .com or .org. Only Vietnamese government entities can register .gov.vn.
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Every field the official form asks
The Vietnam E-Visa form has roughly 25 fields across 4 sections: traveler identity, passport, trip details, and a brief health/security declaration.
A passport-style photo upload is required (this is one of the few cases where an official arrival document does request photo upload — but the upload happens only on the official .gov.vn site, never anywhere else).
Payment is required ($25 single, $50 multi) — but payment goes through the Vietnamese government’s payment processor, not to a third party.
If a site asks for your photo or payment but the URL is not .gov.vn, you are not on the official site.
Known sites that overcharge for the e-visa
These sites all charge significantly more than $25 USD for the same Vietnamese government e-visa. Some submit a real application on your behalf. Some don’t.
Screenshots captured April 2026. Archived snapshots available via archive.org.
How to tell any e-visa site is not the real one
- Does the domain end in
.gov.vn? If no, it is not a Vietnamese government site. Period. - Does the price match $25 single-entry / $50 multi-entry? Anything higher includes middleman markup.
- Does the URL contain “vietnam”, “evisa”, “official”, “apply” but not
.gov.vn? Bait. - Does the site claim “official partner” or “authorized agent”? Vietnam’s Immigration Department does not authorize partners. There are no such things.
- Does the site offer express processing for $200+? The real express option is $50 government surcharge. Anything higher is middleman markup.
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