E-visa approval issue

This whole 30 day E visa thing is a joke. Can someone please explain the logic behind it whilst tourist cities like Nha Trang, Da Nang etc are on their knees waiting for tourists ?

- @panda7

@OceanBeach92107  "They say I'll need to personally go to Hanoi for that.""

     In HCM , my wife had to pick up  the passport with the TRC inside.

- @Sobie

This whole 30 day E visa thing is a joke. Can someone please explain the logic behind it whilst tourist cities like Nha Trang, Da Nang etc are on their knees waiting for tourists ?

- @panda7

@OceanBeach92107  "They say I'll need to personally go to Hanoi for that.""

     In HCM , my wife had to pick up  the passport with the TRC inside.

- @Sobie

Good info, thanks!

Even though Quảng Ngãi is telling us we need to go to Hanoi, we will be back in Vũng Tàu tomorrow and plan to check with immigration in HCMC to see if they can do it.

We have over two weeks to plan.

- @OceanBeach92107

@toufas I applied for a 1-month visa on July 16th and paid.

Today Aug 15th, after numerous reminders to foreigners@immigration.gov.vn and contact@immigration.gov.vn I have gotten no response.

I find this unusual. Any ideas?

- @RealPommy

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I applied for a 1-month visa on July 17th for entry on Sep 27.
I only get this answer.
Application status: In processing

They say it takes from 2-3 working days. No it's more than 14.

Any idea why?

- @RealPommy

Perhaps it has something to do with the previous overstay you had (that you mentioned in this post - link)?

Seriously, with a history of a previous violation, don't you think you are more likely to get a relevant answer from immigration than from us?

- @OceanBeach92107

Hi all. The same problem with passport copy again. this time they reply late at night after 8pm 4 days from application. iwas lucky to open the site at 11pm and see the message that photos (2 passports) was not clear. i made new photos and send before 12.00 ..

Now i need to Waite 3-4 more days.

- @toufas

My first guess would be that it's the resolution of your images that's lacking

- @OceanBeach92107

@OceanBeach92107 i send the same photos we used last time with no problem , they were very clear with detailed resolution, no flash no reflections , the new ones i shoot them in photo portable studio as i was professional photographer for years ,they can't be better. what i think is if there is a problem with the bar code scan, a very detailed employee , or they are trying to get overstay fees .. i can't thing something else. Any other ideas welcome ..

@Aidan in HCMC Thanks a lot for the support. i explain everything on post to @OceanBeach92107. Hope i can help others not to go through the same thing.

I wrote in post #53 of this thread...

"My friend, who is now in Hanoi, has had 3 (4?) applications approved without a hitch. As I mentioned in a previous post, his PP photo is absolutely atrocious. The photo is so dark that I'm surprised he hasn't had the same troubles as Toufas."

Well, guess what?! His last application ~10 days ago was rejected. No reason given, no email, no request to resubmit with corrections etc.

I suggested to him that he resubmit the eVisa application, but with a new photo.

Well, he did. And the new application was approved. Go figure.

This whole 30 day E visa thing is a joke. Can someone please explain the logic behind it whilst tourist cities like Nha Trang, Da Nang etc are on their knees waiting for tourists ?
-@panda7

Gov works for gov first and anyone else a distant second. I was in Hanoi last month, never seen so many Maseratis in one place before. Every gov building around Hoàn Kiếm had a car park bristling with $100k+ cars.

This whole 30 day E visa thing is a joke. Can someone please explain the logic behind it whilst tourist cities like Nha Trang, Da Nang etc are on their knees waiting for tourists ?
-@panda7
Gov works for gov first and anyone else a distant second. I was in Hanoi last month, never seen so many Maseratis in one place before. Every gov building around Hoàn Kiếm had a car park bristling with $100k+ cars.
-@Brick23

I used to live in the "oil capital of Europe" where there was some serious money & earnings going about & used to see the odd super car going around. I now live in Celadon City HCMC where its 99% Vietnamese families living here & just in the basement car park I see more super cars, Mercedes, Porsche, Ferrari, even a Mclaren (serious cash) & that's just one development & remember a 100k usd car in US or UK costs at least double if not treble because of import tax. When I ask my Vietnamese friends how some people can afford them they just laugh!

Extra cash and under the table deals for certain people. They will tell you its all about getting rid of unqualified workers, which we all know is bullshit.
-@colinoscapee

I tend to agree.  Relative to other tourist destinations,  few foreigners want to be in Vietnam, and the few who are here aren't causing problems.  It is a strange juxtaposition with the way locals throw caution to the wind in most aspects of life.

Of course, it is their prerogative to focus resources on scrutinizing foreigners.  You would be fool to go looking for reason behind the way things are over here, so I am not gonna ask why.

Of course, there are many foreigners working illegally, but all countries in Asia have this problem and most to a larger extent than Vietnam.  I would even hazard to bet that a lot of these illegal schools are simply too small to afford to get proper documents from the govt.  The govt also doesn't make things easy, they write a lot of rules that seem to become bribery rackets on the local level, making  compliance impossible if not even a waste of time and money.   

@toufas Happened to me.  Just take a new picture, get it into a jpeg or jpg, an HEIC won’t work.  Make sure it looks passportee and send it in from the same evisa site.  I did it from a coffee shop with an employee.