How to Apply for Vietnam Visa From Papua New Guinea: Steps, Timing and Payment

How to apply for Vietnam visa from Papua New Guinea is done online: Papua New Guinean 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. Papua New Guinea is on none of Vietnam's exemption lists, so a Papua New Guinean passport gets no visa-free stay. This page covers the steps, what to prepare, timing in Port Moresby time, paying from Papua New Guinea and the mistakes Papua New Guinean applicants make. For prices in Papua New Guinean kina and the full cut-off table, see our guide to the Vietnam visa for Papua New Guinean 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 Papua New Guinea at a glance:

How to apply for Vietnam visa from Papua New Guinea

You apply for a Vietnam visa from Papua New Guinea 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 evisa.gov.vn; 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 Papua New Guinea

A Vietnam e-visa application from Papua New Guinea needs four things ready:

• A Papua New Guinean 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 Papua New Guinea

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. Port Moresby is 3 hours ahead of Vietnam. Port Moresby keeps the same time all year, so the gap does not change.

For Same day delivery, order between 11:00 and 17:15 in Port Moresby, on a day that is a working day in Vietnam. Because Port Moresby is ahead of Vietnam, the Vietnamese working day falls in your afternoon and evening. An order placed before 11:00 waits until Vietnam opens at that hour. Our guide for Papua New Guinean citizens has the full table of cut-offs, and the urgent e-visa page covers every speed.

Paying for your e-visa from Papua New Guinea

You pay in US dollars by credit or debit card. A Standard single-entry e-visa costs $47, about PGK 212, government fee included.

Figures use 1 USD = 4.5094 PGK (xe.com, October 10, 2026). Your card is charged in US dollars; your bank converts the amount into Papua New Guinean kina at its own rate, so your statement can differ from the figure here. See the full price table for every speed.

On evisa.gov.vn the government fee alone is US$25 (approx. PGK 113).

Mistakes Papua New Guinean applicants make

The first two points below are specific to Papua New Guinean applicants; the last two apply to everyone.

• Order earlier in the day: Because Port Moresby runs ahead of Vietnam, the urgent cut-offs fall in your afternoon and evening: Same day closes at 17:15 and Emergency at 20:30.
• 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.