Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Warm welcome and honestly! I could do all kind of process document easily and carefuly

I came here to get my certificate of eligibility for getting married. At first I was really nervous by the bad reviews here. Lucky that my experience was a good one! The process was smooth and the attitude of the officers was polite enough. I got my certificate in 2 hours. This place deserves better rating.

Good job, very quick and friendly.

I really do not understand why this place has a 2.5 rating. My experience was almost 5 star and I got the quickest visa of my life (10 minutes). Having been to over 30 countries, I always assume a week or more is necessary to get the visa of the destination country but Vietnam turned out to be the fastest. There was a huge waiting line(hence the 4 star rating) and I had to wait for almost 2 hours for my turn but after my number was called, it took me 10 minutes to get the visa! The form is extremely simple and they didn't even check my residence card/air ticket. Fill up the form with a photo and submit at Quay 1, wait until they call your ticket number in Quay 3, pay the money and get your visa (Tourist) on your passport. People need to realize that this is not a shopping mall. It is a government office with some rules. If you follow the rules (which are simple) and are patient, you are fine. They make sure to process the applications for tickets issued before closing time. There was a local man who tried to get in after the staff had stopped accepting morning applications. He insisted on preferential treatment and was cursing the embassy unnecessarily. Great to see that nobody listened to him and he was forced to leave empty handed. ここは日本だああだこうだとコメントしている人がいるけど、大使館の中は日本じゃないことを理解して欲しいです。申請する人多いし、人手不足に見えるので、受付開始の時間に行くことを強くお勧めします。11時過ぎると午前中に申請難しいかも。午後の申請は14時からです。

So here’s the deal for EVERYTHING you need to know about getting a visa. The absolute best time to go is before it opens. The doors open up at least an hour beforehand, so you can get a number and start the paperwork while you wait. The visa office opens at 10am, and we got there around 9am (and we still had 25 people in front of us). We waited a little over 2 hours for our number to be called, and our visas were processed in just 25 minutes or so. (We had flights to Vietnam later the very same day, so they may have given us some priority.) All-in-all, plan to spend 2.5-3 hours there, and get there as soon as possible. You walk in and the first thing you’ll want to do is get a number from the machine in the corner. Visa applications in various languages are next to the number machine. The application is a one-sided sheet of paper and you’ll need to glue a “passport” photo onto it—even if you have your passport with you. There’s a passport photo booth directly outside the visa office door and it costs 9,000 yen. (There are also plenty of other passport processing photo booths at train stations and outside some Lawson markets—so whatever works for you.) Scissors and glue are provided there in the visa office—there’s just one set that visitors can share. There are no pens that I saw, so definitely bring a pen! A great couple other things to note: we came prepared with forms filled out online and printed, but the guy at the bcounter preferred the forms there at the visa office. (Good thing we filled those out just in case while we were waiting!) Also, they have three counters that help visitors to the office. Only one of them services visas, so that’s one of the reasons it takes awhile. Hopefully this helps!