Twelve nationalities: Resolution 229 visa exemption
The current Resolution 229 policy exempts these nationals from visas for up to 45 days from entry, regardless of passport type, subject to legal entry conditions.
- Applies to Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Switzerland, regardless of passport type.
- Maximum stay is 45 days from entry and remains subject to Vietnam’s legal entry conditions. The current MOFA table states unilateral-exemption entrants need a passport valid at least six months and at least 30 days outside Viet Nam since their last departure.
- This current 2025-2028 resolution supersedes the expired 2025 Poland/Czechia/Switzerland package-tour pilot for the same ordinary passports; do not retain the expired tour-only condition.
- Work, residence, overseas-Vietnamese, diplomatic/official, transit, crew, and individual security/admissibility rules remain separate.
Official sourcesGovernment of Viet Nam / Government Legal Document Portal: Resolution No. 229/NQ-CP on tourism-stimulus visa exemption for 12 countriesGovernment News / Government Portal: Viet Nam grants visa exemptions for citizens of 24 countriesMinistry of Foreign Affairs: Viet Nam's visa exemption list