Vietnam pre-arrival information form guide

Checked 6 November 2026 by Darius Cheung. Independent guide, not a government website.

Short answer

Vietnam's pre-arrival information form is run by the Immigration Department at prearrival.immigration.gov.vn. You type a captcha, pick your nationality, then fill three steps: Passenger Information, Trip Information, and Review & Submit. The arrival date is picked from three days, today to two days ahead in Vietnam time. Pressing Submit sends a 6-digit code to your email, which you enter to finish. We found no payment step on the official form.

What the official site offers

The site calls itself "Pre-arrival Information Submission for Visitors". Its home page has three doors:

The interface comes in 12 languages, English among them. The welcome text gives the reason to file early: "Submitting your declaration in advance helps reduce waiting time at the immigration area."

What each step asks for

Before the steps, you type the characters from a captcha image and choose your nationality. Then:

1. Passenger Information

The arrival date, shown as three buttons labelled "Expected Arrival Date (DD/MM/YYYY GMT+7)". Then the passenger: an optional passport photo that fills the boxes for you, passport type, passport number and expiry, gender (Male, Female or Other), surname (optional), given name, date of birth, phone code and number, and email. Nationality carries over from the first page.

Under it is a Visa Information section. You tick "I have read and understood this information." and give the visa type, number, issue date, expiry date and issuing place. For visa-free entry, some of these drop away. Our visa section guide goes through each type.

2. Trip Information

The country you left from before Vietnam (the form notes: "First Point of Departure if Transiting Through Multiple country"), your purpose (Business trip, Travel, Study abroad, Work, Transit or Other), and how you arrive: Air, Land or Sea. For a flight you search the number in a list, and picking it sets the airport for you. Then where you stay: Hotel, Residential or Others, the province or city, the ward or commune, and the address. Workplace details are optional. Last comes your expected departure date.

3. Review & Submit

A summary of everything, a tick for "I confirm that the information is correct.", and Submit. A code then goes to the email you gave. Type it in and the Result step says "Your submission is successful!", offers a PDF, and sends an acknowledgement with your Disembarkation/Embarkation (DE) number to your email.

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Who has to file it

We found no official text on the site saying who must file or from which date. An unofficial guide from Wego reported in May 2026 that it began as a pilot at Tan Son Nhat (SGN) in April 2026. The site's own airport list now holds five: Tan Son Nhat (SGN), Noi Bai (HAN), Da Nang (DAD), Cam Ranh (CXR) and Phu Quoc (PQC). It also lists the Dong Dang border gate by land and 14 seaports. Being on a list doesn't prove the form is required there, so check before you travel.

Travelling as a group

Press "Add Passenger" for each extra person. Every passenger has their own passport and visa boxes, and the extra ones are asked how they're related to the lead passenger. To update the submission later, you'll need the lead passenger's passport number.

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Questions people ask

How early can I fill in Vietnam's pre-arrival form?

The form offers three arrival dates: today and the next two days, in Vietnam time (GMT+7). A trip further out isn't offered yet.

Can I change it after submitting?

Use Lookup & Update Declaration with your PAI number and the lead passenger's passport. The update page says you can't change the arrival date, surname, given name, passport number, passport expiry or date of birth. For those, make a new submission.

Do Vietnamese citizens use this form?

The site has a tick for "I am a Vietnamese citizen." that leads to a separate form for Vietnamese. This guide covers the visitors' form.

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Where this comes from

Rules change, so check the official site before you travel. Where we quote a form's message, we copied it from the form's own public code. Some messages may rarely appear, and we don't run test submissions on government forms.