How to Apply for Vietnam Visa From Australia: Steps, Timing and Payment

If you want to know how to apply for Vietnam visa from Australia, the answer is short: you apply online for the e-visa, valid for up to 90 days, pay by card, upload your passport page and a photo, and the PDF arrives by email. Neither the embassy in Canberra nor the consulate in Sydney is involved. This page covers the steps, what to prepare, timing in Australian time zones, paying from Australia and the mistakes Australians make. For prices in Australian dollars and urgent cut-offs, see our guide to the Vietnam visa for Australian citizens. When you are ready, you can apply for your e-visa.

eVisaVietnam.com is a private visa service operated by TK VIET NAM., JSC, not the Vietnamese government. You can apply yourself at evisa.gov.vn for US$25.

How to apply from Australia at a glance:

How to apply for Vietnam visa from Australia

You apply for a Vietnam visa from Australia in five steps with us. A Vietnam e-visa application from Australia is the same in every state.

1. Fill in the form: Enter your passport details, trip dates, entry gate and the speed you want. The price and delivery time update as you choose.
2. Pay by card: Pay in US dollars. The price at checkout is the price we charge.
3. Upload your files: Add the passport data page and the portrait photo. You can upload any time after paying.
4. We check and submit: A person looks at the photo and scan, and contacts you if a file has a problem, before submitting on evisa.gov.vn.
5. Receive the PDF: The approved e-visa arrives by email. Check your name and passport number against your passport, and print one copy.

You can also apply yourself on evisa.gov.vn; our guide on how to apply covers that route screen by screen. If you order through us, the e-visa status tool follows your order.

What to prepare in Australia

You can get a Vietnam visa in Australia in one sitting once four things are ready. A Vietnam visa application from Australia needs:

• An Australian passport: Valid for at least 6 months from your entry date, with two blank pages.
• A data page image: The page with your photo, all four corners in view, and the two code lines at the bottom sharp, with no glare on the laminate.
• A portrait photo: Recent, facing the camera, white background, no glasses. The photo requirements guide shows examples.
• A card and an emergency contact: A card that works for overseas online payments, and the name, address and phone of a contact at home.

Copy your name from the two code lines at the bottom of the data page, in capital letters, including middle names. If you hold a second passport, apply with the one you will use at the airline desk and at the border.

When to apply from Australia

Apply at least two weeks before you fly if you choose Standard, because 5 to 7 working days can stretch over weekends and Vietnamese public holidays. Vietnamese working hours overlap with yours, since Vietnam is only 1 to 4 hours behind Australia.

Sydney and Melbourne use daylight saving time from the first Sunday in October to the first Sunday in April; Brisbane and Perth do not. An order placed in the Australian morning is therefore processed the same day in Vietnam. For example, Same day orders in Sydney in daylight saving time must be placed before 18:15 to arrive that evening, and the full table of cut-offs is on our guide for Australian citizens. The urgent e-visa page has every speed.

Paying for your e-visa from Australia

You pay in US dollars by credit or debit card. A Standard single-entry e-visa costs $47, about A$68 at 1 USD = 1.4374 AUD (xe.com, October 8, 2026), government fee included. Your card issuer sets the final Australian dollar amount and may add its own foreign-currency fee. See the full price table for every speed.

On evisa.gov.vn the government fee alone is US$25 (approx. A$36). If a card payment fails, check that the card allows overseas online payments and retry, instead of starting a second application.

Mistakes Australians make

Most delays come from five mistakes:

• Assuming Australians travel visa-free: They do not. Australia is not on Vietnam's exemption lists.
• Mixing up time zones: Perth and Sydney differ by up to three hours, and Sydney changes with daylight saving. Convert from your own city.
• A recycled photo: A crop from a passport or a photo of a printed picture is flagged.
• Dates with no margin: Start the validity a day or two before you land; 90 days costs the same as 30.
• An order on an Australian weekend: Saturday and Sunday daytime fall in the weekend window and use the Weekend and public holidays speed.

If you already filed a faulty application, read about e-visa problems before you apply again. Ready? Apply for your e-visa and a person checks your files before they go in.