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Hi everyone, I will be travelling to Vietnam for the first time later this year.I grew up hearing stories about corrupt airport officials asking for bribe money when you enter/leave the country.I was told that they will make up random excuses to make you wait – sometimes the entire day. I heard it mostly has to do with fake “Visa issues”… “longer baggage checks”… “confiscated packages at Customs”… (especially expensive items). Is all of that still happening in 2026?
Hi everyone, I will be travelling to Vietnam for the first time later this year.
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You should by more worried about the cops in small town rural Areas. We had to pay them 6 million or they were going to take our bikes and take us to jail. We had proper documents with us. They said we didn’t. Not much you can do but 💰
I went to Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City for the first time in Feb last year. I flew in an out of Vietnam by myself I didn’t have any issues… only going back I had too much in my luggage I had to take out a few items put it in my carry on. The check in gal was not very polite when I asked the conversion from kg to lbs. But no issues.
Third time to the country and I got nothing more then a blink and let go into country no smile no hi just here is your passport back and go lol so no but I did hear from Vietnamese that they do it to them and not tourist ? Which is odd but I could see that
Didn’t have a problem last year and going again next month
No
We didn’t experience any of that last year. Will find out about this year in 10 days.
Hi Alex we didn’t have any issues at all. Only with my visa prior to us departing Australia . My whole family was granted a visa but mine never arrived . I used the government website. Couldn’t get any answers. I ended up paying an agent who arranged my visa in 24 hours. This seems to be quite common . Just give yourself lots of time to get the visa just in case of any issues and be prepared to pay for it
2014 didn’t happen. 2026 didn’t as well ❤️🩹
Hey Alex. I traveled there a few times already from Canada and will be back in April. I never ever had an issue
Nope! The immigration line is PIA.