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I am in a situation where I landed in Vietnam, and found out I only get 15 days of visa by default. I landed 730am Jan 24th and leaves 00:05am on Feb 9th, which by hours is within 15 days, but if you count days it's officially 16 days.

This leaves me with a couple of options as far as I understand.

  • Buy a new ticket home the day before. Price: 7-800 USD.
  • Doing a 1-day-trip to somewhere else while being here. Price: 100-150 USD but very inconvenient
  • Get a visa extension. I think it requires my passport and I will travel locally and not stay for many days in same place - not sure it's an option.
  • Pay some fine in airport - as I could read it's between 500k VND and 2 million VND.

Is there any thoughts? What is the desired option here? On paper the fine at airport seems best, but I am worried of some downside I don't see.

For any note, I am leaving from Ho Chi Minh to Copenhagen.

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Extended my visa in Da Nang. Costed me 70 USD and took 1 day :-) I am pretty sure you can just take the fine, but there is cases where you are sent back to the city to "fix it". So I didn't take the chance.

And obviously @ptityeti was correct - it was actually 16 days and 5 minutes :-)

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