Any latest info on visa runs – rejections etc.?

Seems the one-year extendable business visa on arrival is over, due to crackdown on companies providing the sponsorships.

Something to do with their not filing the required I think quarterly tax reports and I think the required semi-annual foreign-worker reports, although it’s not a work visa, so that may just be a conjecture I read.

Another maybe rumor maybe not is that having a business visa sponsored by one of these companies would leave a black mark on one's name and make future applications difficult.

So 90-day tourist e-Visa is  the only option for folks not looking to work in VN, just staying long-term.

With the associated time, travel, expense (including expense of visa for the turnaround country).

That’d be the first complication.

Then there’ve been reports of some people’s application for a new one being denied until immigration system shows the person left country. And one post said it might take five days for the system to show that, if it’s land crossing.

So one might be looking at week-plus abroad.

That’s the second complication.

Though being VN, there are also reports of people applying in-country and doing the Danang-Laos van runs, back the same day.

Third complication being most serious, which is being told when entering that this is your last time, and you’ll have to stay away for a year before reapplying. Some report said 9th time.

Though I think it was post-covid, so visas were maybe just 30 days. Though that'd mean just 9 months and buh-bye.

Fourth possible complication I haven’t heard of is the even more nightmarish scenario, being denied application because of too many consecutive tourist visas, meaning one would have like three days to sell all and move to another country, instead of three months with the third scenario above.

So if anybody has some experiences this year with any of this, I’m sure many of us would appreciate it being shared.

Best,

R