Vietnam Visa Fees for Indians: What evisa.gov.vn Actually Charges

Every past attempt on this site to check evisa.gov.vn directly returned an empty page — a client-side application with nothing for a plain fetch to read, confirmed dead on repeated tries through July and August. This time, with a longer render wait, the portal actually loaded, and its own application page states the fee in its own words: "E-visa fee: 25 USD for a single-entry visa / 50 USD for a multiple-entry visa." That figure now has a second, independent anchor too — Vietnam's Ministry of Finance sets the identical number in Circular 28/2026/TT-BTC, the national fee schedule that took effect 1 April 2026. This page is the fee structure alone, both sources cited directly, checked 26 August 2026.

What the e-visa actually costs#

Both figures come straight from evisa.gov.vn's own e-visa information page, under the heading "E-visa fee," and match the government fee this site's Vietnam e-visa guide has documented via a mirrored embassy FAQ since this page's predecessor was written. What is new here is the primary source itself: evisa.gov.vn's own text, reached directly rather than through a third party's mirror of it, plus the legal citation behind it.

The legal basis: Circular 28/2026/TT-BTC#

The $25/$50 figures are not just portal copy — they are set in Vietnamese law. The Ministry of Finance's Circular No. 28/2026/TT-BTC, dated 27 March 2026 and effective 1 April 2026, replaced the previous Circular 25/2021/TT-BTC and its 2023 amendment, and its attached tariff table prices visa grants directly:

The e-visa itself is capped at 90 days by Vietnamese immigration rules — evisa.gov.vn's own text states "Viet Nam e-Visa is valid for a maximum of 90 days, for single or multiple entries" — so only the first two rows of this table, $25 and $50, are the figures an Indian tourist applying through evisa.gov.vn will ever actually pay. The higher tiers, up to $165 for a 10-year multiple-entry visa, are part of the same national fee schedule but apply to visas of longer validity than the e-visa system offers at all; the circular's tariff table lists them by duration only and does not specify which visa category or application channel each tier belongs to, so this page states the figures as published without claiming an Indian tourist can access them through evisa.gov.vn.

The circular also settles how the charge is collected: "Charges for grant of visas and other papers valid for entry, exit, and residence of foreigners shall be collected in Vietnam dong (VND) or US dollar (USD)" — evisa.gov.vn's own gateway takes the USD route, never converting to rupees at any point.

Non-refundable, at both the portal and the legal level#

evisa.gov.vn states the fee "is paid through the e-visa portal's e-payment gateway and is non-refundable in case the visa is not granted." Circular 28/2026/TT-BTC backs the same rule from the regulator's side: Article 6 provides that where an applicant "has paid a charge but is disqualified... or refuses to receive the dossier-processing result, the charge-collecting organization is not required to refund the collected charge amount." A refused or abandoned application does not get the $25 or $50 back — reapplying means paying again in full, a point covered in more detail, including the specific mistakes that cause most refusals, on the Vietnam e-visa guide.

What it costs in rupees — an honest estimate, not a fixed price#

evisa.gov.vn charges only in US dollars; no rupee figure appears anywhere on the portal or in the circular's own text. At a rate of roughly ₹84–95 to the dollar — the range this site has observed across recent checks — $25 lands somewhere around ₹2,100–₹2,400, and $50 around ₹4,200–₹4,750. Both are planning figures, not a price you can lock in: the actual debit on an Indian card depends entirely on the issuing bank's own cross-border conversion rate on the day of payment, which moves daily and differs from one bank to the next. Confirm the dollar figure in force on evisa.gov.vn before paying, and expect your bank statement's rupee line to differ slightly from any estimate here.

What a third-party "visa service" adds on top#

Every fee on this page is the government's own charge for the identical, free-to-access application at evisa.gov.vn. A third-party site that charges to "process" a Vietnam e-visa is filling in the same form and charging extra for it — this site has previously documented that markup in the ₹3,000–₹8,000 range for a service with no different outcome and no priority handling. The full three-layer cost breakdown — government fee, bank cross-border charge, and reseller markup — along with the payment failures specific to Indian cards (most ship with international transactions switched off by default) sits on the Vietnam e-visa guide, which this page does not repeat.

VisaGyan is not affiliated with the Vietnamese government, evisa.gov.vn, the Immigration Department or any visa-processing service. The $25/$50 e-visa fee and its non-refundable status are quoted directly from evisa.gov.vn's own e-visa information page, reached on 26 August 2026 after a longer page-render wait succeeded where earlier attempts on this site returned an empty client-side shell. The legal fee schedule is quoted from Circular 28/2026/TT-BTC via LuatVietnam's English translation of the Vietnamese original, cross-checked against the portal's own wording. Fees change without notice — verify the live dollar figure on evisa.gov.vn before paying.

Sources cited only — expert review pending. For individualized advice, consult a licensed professional.