Vietnam e-visa entry points: all 83 checkpoints

On 2 December 2025 the government signed Resolution 389/NQ-CP. It did one thing: it added 41 more international checkpoints to the list where a Vietnam e-visa can be used. Before that, under Resolution 127/NQ-CP from August 2023, the list had 42 gates. Now it has 83.

The breakdown, straight from the resolution text: 4 new airports, 11 new land border gates, 26 new seaports. That takes the totals to 17 airports, 27 land gates and 39 seaports.

• Airports: 13 to 17
• Land border gates: 16 to 27
• Seaports: 13 to 39
• Total: 42 to 83

The expansion did not change any rule about who can get an e-visa, how long it lasts, or how much it costs. It only widened the number of doors you can walk through with one. Most of the new doors are small ports and provincial land gates that few travellers will ever see.

For anyone based in Nha Trang, the practical answer is: your border did not move. But the list of fallbacks if your plans change got a lot longer, and two of the new gates are in Tay Ninh, the same province as Moc Bai.

A lot of 2026 write-ups list Cam Ranh, Lien Khuong, Phu Cat, Phu Bai, Dong Hoi and Tho Xuan as airports that "gained" e-visa status in December 2025. They did not. All six were already on the 2023 list of 13 airports. Cam Ranh has accepted e-visas for years, which is why flying into Nha Trang on one has always worked.

The four that are genuinely new:

• Vinh International Airport (Nghe An), in service now
• Chu Lai International Airport (Quang Ngai), in service now
• Long Thanh International Airport (Dong Nai), only once it opens
• Gia Binh International Airport (Bac Ninh), only once it opens

That last point matters if you are reading a list that counts 17 usable airports today. Two of the 17 are paper entries. Long Thanh and Gia Binh are written into the resolution with the same conditional wording: effective when the airport is put into operation. Until then the working count is 15.

Full list of the 17: Noi Bai, Tan Son Nhat, Cam Ranh, Da Nang, Cat Bi (Hai Phong), Can Tho, Phu Quoc, Phu Bai (Hue), Van Don (Quang Ninh), Tho Xuan (Thanh Hoa), Dong Hoi (Quang Binh), Phu Cat (Quy Nhon), Lien Khuong (Da Lat), Long Thanh, Gia Binh, Vinh and Chu Lai.

For a Nha Trang resident the only line that moved is the one about Chu Lai. If you were flying out of Da Nang or Saigon to reset a visa, Chu Lai is now a third airport in the central region where an e-visa works. It is still a three hour drive north of here, so it is not a Nha Trang option in any meaningful sense.

The land list went from 16 to 27. Moc Bai was already on it, and so was Bo Y in Kon Tum. Neither is new, which is worth saying plainly because some of the December coverage implied otherwise. What our run uses at Moc Bai is a gate that has accepted e-visas since 2023.

The 11 additions on land are: Dong Dang (railway, Lang Son), Lao Cai (railway), Tra Linh (Cao Bang), Long Sap (Son La), Nam Giang (Da Nang), Le Thanh (Gia Lai), Binh Hiep (Tay Ninh), Thuong Phuoc (Dong Thap, road and river), Dinh Ba (Dong Thap), Tan Nam (Tay Ninh) and Thanh Thuy (Tuyen Quang).

Two of those sit in Tay Ninh, the same province as Moc Bai. Binh Hiep and Tan Nam are small Cambodia crossings used mainly by locals and freight. Both now accept e-visas on paper. Neither has the infrastructure, the fixer network or the opening hours of Moc Bai, so treat them as a curiosity rather than an alternative for a Nha Trang run. If a driver ever suggests Binh Hiep to save time, the honest answer is that Moc Bai is the gate with people who process tourist stamps all day.

The Laos side got the same treatment. Nam Giang in central Vietnam and Le Thanh in Gia Lai are new e-visa gates pointing at Laos, alongside the established Lao Bao and Bo Y. For riders who use the Bo Y route out of Kon Tum, this is mildly good news: more Laos options on a valid e-visa than there were in 2025.

The rest of the 27 cover the China frontier (Mong Cai, Huu Nghi, Thanh Thuy and the two railway gates) and the long Laos border (Tay Trang, Cau Treo, Cha Lo, La Lay and others). Useful if you are overlanding the region. Irrelevant to a Moc Bai border run.

This is where the resolution did most of its work. Seaports went from 13 to 39, and 26 of the 39 are new. Almost all of the additions are small provincial ports that exist for cargo and fishing. A handful matter for cruise passengers and yacht arrivals, and three of those are in Khanh Hoa province.

• Nha Trang Port, the working cruise terminal on the bay
• Ca Na Port, south along the coast
• Ninh Chu Port, further south again

Nha Trang Port was already on the list before December. The other two are new. If you arrive on a cruise ship or a private yacht and clear in at any of the three, an e-visa works, which was not true at Ca Na or Ninh Chu a year ago.

One quirk worth knowing before you compare this list to older ones: the resolution uses the post-2025 provincial names. Vung Ro, historically in Phu Yen, appears under Dak Lak. Phu Quy and Lien Huong appear under Lam Dong. Ca Na and Ninh Chu appear under Khanh Hoa. If you are cross-checking against a pre-merger map and the provinces do not line up, that is why, and it does not change which port you clear at.

For anyone doing a land run to Moc Bai, the seaport list is background. Nobody crosses a border gate at sea. It matters only if you are planning a boat arrival or a cruise leg back into the country, in which case having 39 options instead of 13 is a real difference.

Search this and you get two flatly contradictory answers. One side says the checkpoint printed on your e-visa PDF must match the one you actually use, and a mismatch means refusal at the counter. The other side says any of the 83 works, so a rerouted flight is fine.

Start with something most of those pages leave out, because it makes the rest of the argument look silly. The port of entry field was dropped from the e-visa document. Under the format Vietnam has used since 2023, your approved e-visa does not print an entry gate at all. It shows your name, passport number, dates and number of entries, and nothing about which airport or land gate you intend to use. So the idea that an officer can refuse you for arriving at a gate that differs from the one on the paper falls apart at the first step: there is no gate on the paper to compare against.

Here is what we can actually stand behind. The official instruction on the government's e-visa portal is that you enter through a checkpoint on the approved list of 83. That is the requirement, and it is the one that gets enforced. The stricter reading, that the exact gate you named on the application must be the one you use, is what a lot of agencies still publish. Some of that is caution, and some of it is a page written before 2023 that nobody has updated.

Practical guidance, and it holds under either reading: name the gate you actually intend to use, and if your plans change, confirm before you fly rather than quietly hoping. Naming your real gate costs nothing. Relying on a workaround you read in a forum is a different bet.

For a Moc Bai run this question mostly disappears. On our service the exit stamp and the re-entry both happen at the same gate on the same day, and the visa desk files your e-visa once your exit stamp has landed, so the port named on the application is the port you are standing at. That is the whole point of handing the paperwork to a fixer rather than doing it yourself from a hotel room.

The case where it bites is a DIY runner who names Moc Bai, then decides to cross at Ha Tien or fly out of Tan Son Nhat instead. Different gate, different procedure, and now you are relying on an officer's discretion at a counter you have never seen.

Exiting is a different story. The restriction that gets published covers entry. Once you are in the country, leaving through a checkpoint other than the one on your visa is the normal way people travel, and there is no indication the December resolution changed that.

The run out of Nha Trang is the same as it was in November 2025. Pickups between 02:30 and 05:00 depending on where you are on the coast, the inland loop over QL27C and Khanh Le Pass, the highlands on QL14 down into Tay Ninh, Moc Bai somewhere between 10:00 and 12:00. Three stamps, back on the coast by 21:00. The 500 km did not get shorter and the gate did not get newer.

What the expansion does give you is a longer list of places an e-visa is good for. That has one practical benefit for a Nha Trang resident who travels: the next time you leave Vietnam and want to come back, you are not locked into flying into Saigon or Da Nang or landing back at Cam Ranh. Vinh, Chu Lai and the eleven new land gates are all valid on the same visa.

Which gates in the whole 83 are actually relevant to someone based here:

So the headline number went up by 41 and the number of checkpoints you will personally use stayed at four. That is not a disappointment. It is just how a resolution that mostly opens fishing ports and railway crossings reads from the coast of Khanh Hoa.

Where to go next

If you are planning the run rather than reading policy, start with the 2026 cost page, which breaks 1.5M transport only, the 5M Standard bundle and the 9.5M private car into line items in both VND and USD. The travel options page compares the bus chain, the SE train, Cam Ranh flights and our convoy on the same 500 km.

For the border itself, the Moc Bai route guide walks the inland loop hour by hour and covers the three stamps. The 90-day e-visa guide explains what the visa desk does once your exit stamp lands, and Bo Y versus Moc Bai covers the Laos alternative if you qualify for the 45-day exemption.

Coming from another city? Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang run their own versions of the same process, Da Lat riders often route through here, and the network city comparison lines up the corridors side by side.

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