{"schemaVersion":1,"source":"live","checkedAt":"2026-10-08T03:06:05.901Z","passport":{"code":"PL","name":"Poland","slug":"poland"},"destination":{"code":"VN","name":"Vietnam"},"status":"visa_free","evidenceLevel":"exact","supportsCurrentStatus":true,"reviewedAt":"2026-09-29","allowedStays":[{"label":"45 days from the date of entry for tourism","basis":"per_entry","maxDays":45,"notes":["Resolution 229 Article 1 expressly limits this waiver to tourism. The permitted stay is not passport validity or the resolution's policy window."]}],"policies":[{"id":"pass417-vn-resolution229-current-tourist-entry-conditions","title":"Vietnam: Resolution 229 twelve-country 45-day tourism waiver","summary":"The twelve named nationalities remain visa-exempt for tourism for 45 days from entry under Resolution 229. The former 30-day re-entry interval does not apply; six-month passport validity and legal admission conditions remain.","status":"visa_free","effectiveFrom":"2025-08-15","effectiveTo":"2028-08-14","conditions":["Resolution 229 Article 1 names Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland. It expressly requires tourism purpose, regardless of passport type; this record covers ordinary tourist visitors, not an all-purpose exemption.","Unilateral visa-exemption entrants need at least six months of remaining passport validity and must not fall within Article 21 entry-refusal grounds, under Article 20 of the foreigner-entry law.","The former general 30-day interval after the previous departure was removed by the Article 20 amendment effective 1 July 2020. The Ministry's express explanation and the 2026 consolidated law establish removal, not merely omission from a visa table. Every entry remains subject to admission checks; no automatic extension or unrestricted repeated-entry entitlement is asserted.","Article 2 sets the policy window from 15 August 2025 through 14 August 2028. Article 3 ends the earlier Resolution 11 Poland/Czechia/Switzerland pilot from 15 August 2025; its package-tour confirmation condition is not carried into Resolution 229's replacement tourism waiver.","Passport validity, the 45-day permitted stay and the resolution's policy window are separate. Employment, residence, diplomatic/official privileges, transit, crew, special documents and individual security/admissibility rules are outside this ordinary tourism baseline."],"sourceIds":["pass417-vn-resolution229-signed-tourism-2025","pass417-vn-foreigner-law-consolidated-2026","pass417-vn-mps-explicit-thirty-day-gap-removal"]}],"conditional":[],"sources":[{"id":"pass417-vn-resolution229-signed-tourism-2025","title":"Resolution 229/NQ-CP of 8 August 2025: twelve-country tourism waiver","url":"https://datafiles.chinhphu.vn/cpp/files/vbpq/2025/8/229-cp.signed.pdf","publisher":"Government of Viet Nam, Government Legal Document Portal","jurisdiction":"Viet Nam","kind":"law","language":"Vietnamese","reviewedAt":"2026-09-29"},{"id":"pass417-vn-foreigner-law-consolidated-2026","title":"Consolidated Law 62/VBHN-VPQH of 23 March 2026: foreigner entry and temporary stay","url":"https://congbaocdn.chinhphu.vn/180507251028987904/2026/4/10/469192-1775620625_v1_1775783105_signed.pdf","publisher":"Office of the National Assembly, Official Gazette of Viet Nam","jurisdiction":"Viet Nam","kind":"law","language":"Vietnamese","reviewedAt":"2026-09-29"},{"id":"pass417-vn-mps-explicit-thirty-day-gap-removal","title":"Ministry of Public Security answer: unilateral-waiver re-entry conditions","url":"https://bocongan.gov.vn/hoi-dap/chi-tiet-cau-hoi/c94b4c6f-7d75-4808-8119-38e24a4aaf85?page=%2F","publisher":"Ministry of Public Security of Viet Nam","jurisdiction":"Viet Nam","kind":"government-guidance","language":"Vietnamese","reviewedAt":"2026-09-29"}]}