Visa and entry: official links for Phu Quoc

The airport's visa page, in English and read on 12 October 2026, says that foreigners, and Vietnamese citizens holding foreign passports, who enter, leave and stay on Phu Quoc are exempt from a visa for a temporary stay of up to 30 days. It names two cases in which the exemption applies:

• You arrive on Phu Quoc directly from abroad, by air or by sea.
• You enter Vietnam at another international border gate, stay inside that gate's transit area, and continue your journey to Phu Quoc.

The same page adds three limits. The 30 days count from the date of entry. The exemption applies only on Phu Quoc. If you want to stay longer than 30 days, or to travel from Phu Quoc to other provinces and cities of Vietnam, you need a Vietnamese visa obtained under immigration rules.

Behind the airport's wording sit three texts. Law 51/2019/QH14 added a visa exemption for coastal economic zones that have an international airport and a boundary separate from the mainland. Government Resolution 80/NQ-CP of 25 May 2020 applied it to Phu Quoc from 1 July 2020. Decree 75/2020/NĐ-CP says a visitor in such a zone who needs to go elsewhere in Vietnam applies for a visa through an organisation or individual in Vietnam that invites or sponsors them. All three were written when Phu Quoc belonged to Kien Giang. We found no 2025–2026 text restating them for the special zone; the airport describes the exemption as current.

A notice on the Vietnam Immigration Department's older portal, evisa.xuatnhapcanh.gov.vn, says that from 08:00 on 11 November 2024 (GMT+7) the electronic visa portal operates on two new domains: thithucdientu.gov.vn and evisa.gov.vn. Those are the addresses to use. On 12 October 2026 both new domains refused our checking tool, so we list them on the strength of the Immigration Department's notice, which did load. The airport's page describes the e-visa as valid for up to 90 days, for a single or multiple entries, and suggests completing it before the trip.

Government Resolution 127/NQ-CP of 2023, which opened e-visas to citizens of all countries, lists Phu Quoc airport and Duong Dong seaport among the checkpoints where e-visa holders may enter, as published at the time; the text still names Kien Giang.

• You plan to visit the mainland on the same trip — even a day trip by boat to Ha Tien takes you outside the zone the exemption covers.
• Your route reaches Phu Quoc on a domestic flight after passing through immigration elsewhere.
• You may want to stay longer than 30 days, or to leave and come back.
• Your airline cannot confirm that your connection keeps you in the transit area.

In each of these cases an e-visa that covers the whole country is simpler than trying to change your status after you arrive. If you hold a passport from a country on a nationwide exemption list, check whether that exemption covers your whole trip before applying for anything.

We do not give individual visa advice and cannot contact the immigration authorities for you. For a decision on your own case, the Immigration Department and the Vietnamese embassy or consulate in your country are the bodies that answer.