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