While travelling in Vietnam, your passport is lost because of some popular reasons like : robbery, by being careless, you dropped it somewhere, losing the passport in washing machine… you feel depressed.What you must do to get a new passport and also to get a Vietnam visa for not staying in Vietnam illegally ?
Step 1. Report to the closest Vietnamese police office where your passport is lost.
When you realize your passport is lost, the first thing you must do is to report to Vietnamese police office as soon as possible. You must claim where, when and how your passport is lost or stolen. After finishing the report with detailed information about that, you will receive the confirmed document on your lost passport issue from the police. With this document, it will be easy to get emergency passport from your Embassy or Consulate-General in the next step.
Step 2. Apply for a new passport at your Embassy or Consulate
The next step you must follow is get to your closest Embassy or consulate and apply for a new passport to replace the old one.
Required documents for renewing passport:
- Application for a passport renewal
- 2 passport sized photos
- A copy of passport
When you go to your Embassy or Consulate-General, they will help and show you procedures to apply for the new passport. The new passport may be issued within two working days and you are required to pay an additional fee to have the new passport replaced with the lost one.
Step 3. Get a replacement Vietnam visa
After your new passport has been issued, your Embassy or Consulate-General will give you a letter to the Vietnamese Immigration Department, which requests their assistance to issue a replacement visa in your new passport. Vietnamese authorities will not permit you to leave Vietnam until your replacement visa is issued. A fee will be payable to the relevant Immigration Department.
Documents needed to submit at Vietnam Immigration to process the exit visa:
- Your new passport
- Passport photo
- The report on the loss of exit and entry visa (certified by Local Police Department)
- The diplomatic note of yours Embassy or Consulate
- Your air tickets
Vietnam Immigration address:
Vietnamese Immigration Department in Hanoi: 44-46 Tran Phu, Ba Dinh, Ha Noi
Vietnamese Immigration Department in Da Nang: No. 7 Tran Quy Cap street, Da Nang city.
Vietnamese Immigration Department in Ho Chi Minh city: No. 161 Nguyen Du, Ben Thanh Ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City.
Special advices about passport while travelling:
- You should make at least two copies your passport while travelling. This will help when you apply for a new passport and to apply for a new visa.
- When you get a new passport, the passport number is not the same as the old, please check your airline booking and your visa for other countries as soon as the new passport is issued. The old visas in the lost passports are just: LOST
