What Vietnam requires
One document, and it applies to every foreign national: whatever your passport, however you arrive.
Vietnam PAI
Pre-Arrival Information
The Vietnam Pre-Arrival Information (PAI) is Vietnam's official online entry declaration, a mandatory digital form for travelers arriving in Vietnam that collects your travel, accommodation and visa details before you reach the border. Complete your Vietnam Pre-Arrival Information online before departure and receive instant confirmation, with your entry declaration done before you fly.
What you'll need
Valid passport details, arrival details (border gate, travel mode and flight number), visa or visa-exemption information for each traveler, accommodation details in Vietnam (type and address), and valid email address to receive your confirmation.
Start your PAIRead the full PAI guide$99.99 per traveler
No Vietnam government fee. Service fee only.
Four steps, and you know all four
Most services show you three. The fourth one is real, so here it is.
01
Your trip
When you arrive and leave, and where to email the document.
02
Your travelers
Passport details for everyone traveling. Photograph the passport page and we fill it in for you.
03
Review and pay
Choose your review speed. Every line itemized before you pay a cent.
04
After payment
Arrival details
After payment
Airline, flight number and your address in Vietnam. About 2 minutes, once your payment clears.
What it costs
$99.99 per traveler for the Pre-Arrival Information, charged for at most 2 travelers. Vietnam charges no government fee, so that is the whole bill.
What $99.99 adds
Someone else carries it
- An AI checks every answer against Vietnam's rules, then a person reviews it before it goes in.
- Apply today, whenever your trip is. We submit on the day the window opens.
- If Vietnam's portal is down or rejects the submission, we keep trying until it goes through.
- Passport scanning, real-time validation, and a human on chat if it snags.
- A family of four is one form and one review, not four attempts.
Doing it yourself
prearrival.immigration.gov.vn (free)
- The official portal, in your own time. It works.
- The portal goes down for maintenance and times your session out. Every retry is yours to make.
- You have to remember the day the window opens, and count back from your arrival yourself.
- A typo in a passport number is yours to catch, and to fix at the airport.
- Every traveler entered separately, from scratch, with nobody to ask when a field is unclear.
Review and submission speed
Every application is checked by a person before it is submitted. Standard is included in the price above. Two faster options are available at checkout, and neither is pre-selected.
Standard
2 hours
Included in the price above
Fast
1 hour
+$10.00 per application
Ultra Fast
15 minutes
+$20.00 per application
Times are counted from the moment we can submit, not from payment. If Vietnam is not accepting your document for your dates yet, we hold the application and start the clock when its window opens; checkout shows you that date before you pay. Speeds move your application up our review queue; they do not change how fast the government processes it once submitted, and they are not a guarantee of approval.
A travel eSIM is the only other optional extra at checkout. Every line is itemized before you pay.
Who needs one
Every foreign national entering Vietnam, whatever your passport. Find yours below.
The questions people actually ask
One: the Pre-Arrival Information (PAI). It applies to every foreign national arriving in Vietnam, by air, land or sea. If your nationality also needs a visa, that is a separate application. The PAI does not replace it.
All we need is the day you land.
Start now, pay when you have seen the full price, and let someone else keep track of Vietnam's submission window.
$99.99 per traveler · no government fee