5-year Visa Exemption for Vietnamese and family members
Overseas Vietnamese residing in Australia and/or their family members can apply for Certificate of Visa-Exemption in person at The Consulate General of Vietnam in Sydney.
Required documents attached to application for visa exemption certificate:
1. For Vietnamese residing abroad, profile comprises:
a. 01 application form for visa exemption certificate (Fill-out the form and print with barcode on Letter-sized paper at Mienthithucvk.mofa.gov.vn (CLICK HERE)
b. One recent 3 x 5 cm or 4 x 6 cm picture (white background, straight face, bare head, no colored glasses)
c. Foreign passports or equivalent documents with validity of at least 6 months up to date of entry.
d. One of the following documents (attached copy for competent authority to file) if available:
– A certificate of Vietnamese citizenship;
– A copy or excerpt of the Decision for Recovery of Vietnamese citizenship;
– A copy or excerpt of the Decision for Renunciation of Vietnamese citizenship;
– Certificate of Lost of Vietnamese citizenship;
– A Vietnamese passport (valid or invalid)
– An Identity Card (valid or invalid)
– A Birth Certificate (Copy accepted)
– The latest voter’s card
– A Family Register Book
– A travel document issued before 1975
– An Identity Card issued before 1975
– An Excerpt from Birth Register issued before 1975
– Documents issued by competent foreign authorities if they can prove that the person in question has original Vietnamese citizenship or of Vietnamese origin.
e. Self-stamped and addressed return envelope (if applicants want to receive visa by mail).
2. With holders of foreign passports being wives, husbands, and children of a Vietnamese citizen or Vietnamese residing abroad, the attached file comprises of:
a. One application form for a visa exemption certificate.
b. One recent 3x5 cm or 4x6 cm photo (white background, straight face, bare head, without colored glasses).
c. A foreign passport with validity of at least 6 months upto date of entry (a copy attached for competent authority to file)
d. One of documents proving relationship between wives/husbands/children and the Vietnamese residing abroad (a copy attached for competent authority to file)
– Certificate of Marriage
– Certificate of Birth
– A Certificate of relationship with farther, mother, children;
– Other valid documents as regulated by the Vietnamese Law.
– Decision of Adoption
e. Self-stamped and addressed return envelope (if applicants want to receive visa by mail).
For further information, please contact our Consulate General:
- Address: Suite 205, Level 2, Edgecliff Centre, 203-233 New South Head Road, Edgecliff, NSW 2027
- Working hours: 09.00am - 04.00pm, Monday to Friday, except NSW public holidays
- Phone: 02 93271912 / 02 93272539 / 02 93261129 / 02 03261202
- Fax: 02 93281653
- Email: vnconsul@iinet.net.au
- Application for Vietnam Visa
- Apply Visa in Person or by Mailing Service
- Submit document by Online Express Visa
- Vietnamese Passport
- Birth Registration for Vietnamese
- 5-year Visa Exemption for Vietnamese and family members
- Certificate of Vietnamese Origin
- Legalisation of documents issued by Australian authorities to be used in Vietnam
- Permit for Repatriation of Deceased Vietnamese’s Remains and Bodies
- Forms in Vietnamese