Border Run to moc bai - APRIL 2022

Hi

I'm in Saigon since 2 weeks, i landed at the airport coming from bangkok.

Got a 15 days visa on arrival with my french passport.

I would like to extend my stay in Vietnam.

My visa finish tomorrow the 14th of April.

My plan is to :

- go to moc bai border with my motorbike

- stamp out of vietnam

- walk to cambodia and stamp in

- stamp out of cambodia one minute later

- come back to Vietnam and get another 15 days visa on arrival

This is a temporary solution before i start a long term visa

Is my plan a good idea ? a bad idea ? Might expect difficulties ?

Any advices and recommendations very welcomed.

Julien

- @JulienSaiGon

Hi

I'm in Saigon since 2 weeks, i landed at the airport coming from bangkok.

Got a 15 days visa on arrival with my french passport.

I would like to extend my stay in Vietnam.

My visa finish tomorrow the 14th of April.

My plan is to :

- go to moc bai border with my motorbike

- stamp out of vietnam

- walk to cambodia and stamp in

- stamp out of cambodia one minute later

- come back to Vietnam and get another 15 days visa on arrival

This is a temporary solution before i start a long term visa

Is my plan a good idea ? a bad idea ? Might expect difficulties ?

Any advices and recommendations very welcomed.

Julien

- @JulienSaiGon

I think it's a bad idea, but I might be wrong.

I believe 30 days has to transpire between uses of your national visa exemption, but that law might have changed.

A more certain solution (IMO) would be to apply for a 30 day e-Visa now.

Anecdotal evidence on social media says that it's taking about a week to have one approved right now, so you're probably looking at spending some time in Cambodia.

However there is also some anecdotal evidence that there are Visa agency companies setting up shop at the border and offering to help you get an immediate approval on your e-Visa, for much more than you would normally pay on the internet.

Nothing blatantly illegal about that, they just seem to have connections in immigration who will push your application to the top of the list immediately.

- @OceanBeach92107

Thanks for your precise answer.

Phone : 0839202300 | Hotline : 0839201701 (Vietnamese) – 039200365 (English)

I just talk with an officer at the immigration office.

She say I can go and come back on the same day and i can get another 15 days visa exemption.

So i'll try my luck tomorrow !

I'm willing to pay a certain amount of 'extra fees' to make things easy.

Any advices to make everything runs smoothly ?

For the cambodia immigration, I guess I need to bring perfect conditions dollar notes ?

- @JulienSaiGon

Here is my story from March 15th when they closed the border at Moc Bai, because of covid they shut the border that morning and "coffee money" went up from a couple of hundred vnd to everyone asking for 100 USD, plus the normal visa for 30 bucks managed to get pushed up to 50 USD, they sensed the desperation of people wanting to get back in to VN so they asked for big money, so expect to pay way more than days before border shut.

@Andybris2020 Thank you !

'On the Cambodian side they filled in all the paperwork and then asked for 200k just to take it to get stamped.'

200k vd ?

- @JulienSaiGon

"vip" money,, meaning pay or sit and wait until you pay, but that was on day border closed,, hopefully everything is back to normal now.

@SteinNebraska haha ok

I just talk with an officer at the immigration office.

She say I can go and come back on the same day and i can get another 15 days visa exemption.

So i'll try my luck tomorrow !

I'm willing to pay a certain amount of 'extra fees' to make things easy.

Any advices to make everything runs smoothly ?

For the cambodia immigration, I guess I need to bring perfect conditions dollar notes ?

- @JulienSaiGon

I'm glad you checked on that and I'm happy to find out I was wrong 😎👍

@JulienSaiGon I may be a few days late here, but don't you need a Covid test to enter both Cambodia and Vietnam?

@JulienSaiGon I may be a few days late here, but don't you need a Covid test to enter both Cambodia and Vietnam?

Nobody posting seems to have considered this.

- @theschust

@JulienSaiGon I may be a few days late here, but don't you need a Covid test to enter both Cambodia and Vietnam?

Nobody posting seems to have considered this.

- @theschust

@JulienSaiGon I may be a few days late here, but don't you need a Covid test to enter both Cambodia and Vietnam?

Nobody posting seems to have considered this.

- @theschust

Did you find any answer to your question? wondering do I need to get a Covid test before heading to the border? since your post is long enough so I assume you already did the visa border run, so how was it did they check your test or they didn't ?... I had no problem passing HCMC airport coming from Malaysia no test required (a week ago)... but I'm not sure about Cambodian side .... its kinda hard to find the clear source stating about unvaccinated/ vaccinated people crossing border

- @SpeedyBuddha

@OceanBeach92107

Hi, I'm just looking at the "official" Cambodian government Evisa website. Under the drop down list for the Port of Entry I can't see Moc Bai, is there something I'm missing here, different name for Moc Bai perhaps, thanks

- @panda7

Hi, I'm just looking at the "official" Cambodian government Evisa website. Under the drop down list for the Port of Entry I can't see Moc Bai, is there something I'm missing here, different name for Moc Bai perhaps, thanks

- @panda7

Check for Bavet, Cambodia / Moc Bai, Vietnam.

I was wondering. Was your VN eVisa approved after submitting without your middle name?

- @Aidan in HCMC