8 Mistakes that can lead to Visa Rejection

Applying for a Visa to Vietnam is a cumbersome process. From filling the application to gathering the documents, submitting it in the embassy/ consulate, and lastly waiting for approval are all processes that consume a lot of efforts, and time of the applicant. Often, regardless of the efforts, you’ve taken, and the forms you’ve filled, any mistakes can have your visa rejected. There are many of them.

However, this report brought to you by Official Vietnam Visa will talk about only 8 of the most common ones out of them.

8 Mistakes the can cause Visa Rejection

Right from making errors while filling the application form, to submitting incomplete or incorrect documents, applicants commit a variety of mistakes that lead to a visa rejection. Here are 8 of those commonly found mistakes.

1. Form Filling Errors

Vietnam eVisa application forms are intricate, and generally, demand a lot of the applicant’s information. However, making mistakes isn’t the way out to finish the work off. It requires patience and filling every detail very carefully to ensure that you furnish information to the best of your knowledge, and it doesn’t create any suspicion that leads to rejection.

2. Submitting Incorrect or Incomplete Documents

Regardless of the country, you apply a visa for, the embassy/ consulate will require a particular set of documents to confirm your credibility, and also ensure your return from the country you intend to visit. For instance, the embassy may demand a financial statement to affirm your financial position or a photo ID to confirm your identity. Nevertheless, a lot of applicants fail to submit the right documents or miss out on some documents, which results in nothing, but the rejection of the application.

3. Non-Compliant Itinerary

Despite knowing that the visa granted will be valid only for 30 days, some applicants apply for a 45-day visa and submit an itinerary that’s 40-45 days long. Such itineraries and applications are subject to rejections, as they aren’t compliant with the visa rules and regulations.

4. Showing the Return Journey by Rail/ Road/ Sea.

It may not be as common as all the other mistakes, but it is undoubtedly one. The embassy requires return journeys. However, it is always better to show the onward as well as the return journey by air. Show the return journey by rail/ road/ sea invites rejection of the application. Such a return journey can’t be verified, and hence, the officials don’t have an option, but to reject the application.

5. Showing an Incomplete Journey

Embassies prefer itineraries that start from the home country of the applicant and end at the same place. For instance, an Indian national starting his journey from India must end his journey in India, irrespective of the number of countries that he will be traveling throughout the journey. Hence, applicants must ensure that they book a return ticket to their home country while applying for the visa.

6. Mentioning your Acquaintances in the Foreign Country

If you mention your acquaintances in the foreign country, you may be required to explain your relationship with the individual, and answering questions such as for how long you’ve known each other, the profession of the individual, submitting his/ her ID proofs, employment card, the bank statement of the person, etc. With these questions, the embassy/ consulate would like to ensure that your contacts in a foreign country aren’t involved in anything suspicious or illegal.

7. Mentioning the Purpose of Travel as Remote Work, Volunteering, House Sitting, etc.

The embassy disapproves of some reasons to travel. Some of them include remote working, house sitting, work away, woofing, volunteering, etc. If you’ve applied for a tourist visa, you must specify the reason as strictly tourism, and nothing else. Indulging yourself in any remunerative activity needs a work visa, and which is why specifying the above reasons will have your visa rejected.

8. Being Involved in Illegal or Criminal Activities

Being involved in any kind of illegal or criminal activity the home country attracts a guaranteed rejection of the visa at that particular point in time, as well as for all the visa applications that one may make in the future. Even worse, you maybe deported or permanently banned from entering a particular country in the future.

These mistakes can get your visa denied, so avoid it to have a valid visa.