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

How to apply for Vietnam visa from Cuba is done online: Cuban citizens apply for the e-visa, valid for up to 90 days, pay by card, upload a passport page and a photo, and receive a PDF by email. Cuba is on no ordinary-passport exemption list, so a Cuban ordinary passport gets no visa-free stay; only passports endorsed for public affairs are exempt. This page covers the steps, what to prepare, timing in Havana time, paying from Cuba and the mistakes Cuban applicants make. For prices in US dollars and the full cut-off table, see our guide to the Vietnam visa for Cuban 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 Cuba at a glance:

How to apply for Vietnam visa from Cuba

You apply for a Vietnam visa from Cuba in five steps with us, and the steps are the same wherever in the country you are.

1. Fill in the form: Enter your passport details, trip dates, entry gate and the speed you want. The price and the 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 the government e-visa site; our guide on how to apply covers that route screen by screen. To follow an order with us, use the e-visa status tool.

What to prepare in Cuba

A Vietnam e-visa application from Cuba needs four things ready:

• A Cuban 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, without glare.
• A portrait photo: Recent, facing the camera, white background, no glasses. The photo requirements guide shows examples that pass and fail.
• A card and an emergency contact: A card enabled for online payments to a foreign merchant, 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.

When to apply from Cuba

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. Havana is 11 to 12 hours behind Vietnam. Havana changes its clocks, so the gap shifts by an hour twice a year.

For Same day delivery, order between 21:00 and 3:15 in Havana in summer time (20:00 and 2:15 in winter), on a day that is a working day in Vietnam. Order in the evening, not the morning. An order placed in Havana at 21:00 (summer time) or 20:00 (winter time) reaches Vietnam as its working day begins at 8:00. Our guide for Cuban citizens has the full table of cut-offs, and the urgent e-visa page covers every speed.

Paying for your e-visa from Cuba

You pay in US dollars by credit or debit card. A Standard single-entry e-visa costs $47, government fee included.

Cuba's exchange rates are not quoted here because the peso has no single market rate, so prices are quoted in US dollars. Your card is charged in US dollars. See the full price table for every speed.

On evisa.gov.vn the government fee alone is US$25.

Mistakes Cuban applicants make

The first two points below are specific to Cuban applicants; the last two apply to everyone.

• A public-affairs passport is a different case: The exemption on Cuba's row applies to passports endorsed for public affairs, not to the ordinary passport most Cubans use for private travel.
• Mixing up passports: If you hold more than one passport, apply with the one you will present at the border and use the same one on the form, the scan and the flight booking.
• A look-alike website: The government site is evisa.gov.vn. Private services, including ours, say that they are private.
• A gate you will not use: Choose the airport or border gate you will really enter through, and check the ports of entry list.

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