Vietnam Visa Overstay Fine: How Much You'll Pay (2026)

A 20-day overstay is fined 5,000,000–10,000,000 VND for an individual: the 16-to-under-30-day band of Article 21, Decree 282/2025/NĐ-CP. Deportation may be added; if deported, re-entry is barred for 3 years. Report and pay at the provincial immigration office where you stay; comply within 10 days of receiving the decision.

If you are working out what a Vietnam overstay will cost, the fine starts from the first extra day and rises in bands by length of overstay. Unless mitigating or aggravating circumstances apply, the specific fine is the midpoint of the band.

Which case are you?

• If you overstayed by less than 16 days → you fall in the 500,000–2,000,000 VND band for an individual. Report and pay at the provincial Immigration Management Office where you stay; see Da Nang Immigration Office.
• If you overstayed by 16 days or more → the individual bands rise from 5,000,000–10,000,000 VND at 16 to under 30 days to 30,000,000–40,000,000 VND at 1 year or more. Deportation may also be added, case by case; if deported, re-entry is barred for 3 years.
• If your stay has ended and you have not left → forced exit can be ordered, with a 6-month re-entry ban.
• If you have a fine decision → comply within 10 days of receiving it, unless the decision gives a longer deadline. An unpaid fine can bar you from leaving Vietnam.
• If your stay has not ended yet → leave before it ends, or have your sponsor file an extension well before then. See How to Extend a Visa in Da Nang.

Still open: whether the airport takes payment when you leave, whether a pending extension keeps you legal, how the office counts days. Ask the provincial Immigration Management Office.

What counts as overstaying

Overstaying starts the moment your permitted stay ends: the temporary-residence period granted at the border, an extension of it, or a temporary residence card. For a visa holder, the period granted at the border is the visa’s validity. The exception is a tourist visa (symbol DL) valid for more than 30 days: the stay granted at the border is 30 days at first, with extension considered.

If you entered visa-free under a 45-day scheme, your period is 45 days from your entry date. If you are visa-exempt under a treaty, your period is the one the treaty sets, or 30 days if it sets none. Check your passport in the Vietnam visa exemption guide. Even a single extra day is treated as an administrative violation, with no grace period.

Fine bands by length of overstay

An individual who overstays 16 to under 30 days is fined 5,000,000–10,000,000 VND under Article 21 of Decree 282/2025/NĐ-CP, which replaced Decree 144/2021/NĐ-CP. The full individual bands:

• Under 16 days: 500,000–2,000,000 VND
• 16 to under 30 days: 5,000,000–10,000,000 VND
• 30 to under 60 days: 10,000,000–15,000,000 VND
• 60 to under 90 days: 15,000,000–20,000,000 VND
• 90 to under 180 days: 20,000,000–25,000,000 VND
• 180 days to under 1 year: 25,000,000–30,000,000 VND
• 1 year or more: 30,000,000–40,000,000 VND

By default, the specific fine is the midpoint of the band. Mitigating circumstances can bring it down, but not below the band’s minimum, and aggravating ones can push it up, but not above its maximum.

These amounts apply to an individual. An organisation that commits the same violation is fined at double the individual rate.

Deportation: an extra penalty, not automatic

Overstaying for 16 days or more may also lead to deportation as an additional penalty. The authority decides case by case, based on the nature, severity and consequences of the violation, the offender, and mitigating or aggravating circumstances. So it is not automatic.

Decree 59/2026/NĐ-CP covers a fine decision that carries deportation as an additional penalty. This applies when the fine is being enforced and the violator has no assets or money to pay it. If national security, public order or social safety also call for it, deportation can proceed immediately. Enforcement of the fine then ends once the deportation has been carried out.

Forced exit (buộc xuất cảnh) is a different measure from deportation, with a different re-entry ban. Forced exit can be ordered if your temporary-residence period has ended and you haven’t left; its re-entry ban is much shorter than deportation’s (below).

How long you’re banned from re-entering

• Deported: not allowed back into Vietnam for 3 years from when the deportation decision took effect.
• Forced exit: not allowed back in for 6 months from when that decision took effect.

Unpaid fines can also block your exit

If you still have a penalty decision to comply with, such as an unpaid fine, you fall into a group that can be temporarily barred from leaving Vietnam. The suspension period is set at no more than 3 years and can be extended.

Where and how you pay

If you’ve overstayed, go promptly, in person, to the provincial Immigration Management Office where you’re staying to report, pay the fine, and get guidance on next steps.

Once a fine decision is issued, whoever was fined, an individual or an organisation, must comply within 10 days of receiving it, unless the decision gives a longer deadline. See Da Nang Immigration Office: Address, Hours, Which to Use for the office to report to.

How to avoid it

Leave before your permitted stay ends, or have the person or organisation sponsoring you apply to extend it well before then. For an extension, your sponsor, not you, files the application. See How to Extend a Visa in Da Nang: Step by Step for the full process.

More visa guides: the visa hub.

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Not confirmed: Whether a pending extension application keeps you legal until it is decided. Have your sponsor file well before your stay ends. Whether the airport takes payment of an overstay fine when you leave. Report promptly to the provincial immigration office. How the office counts days past your stay, which matters because the fine band changes at 16 days.

General information checked against the sources listed above, not legal advice for your situation. Rules and office practice change; confirm with the immigration office or a licensed adviser before you act. See how guides are checked.

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