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I did pretty much like you years ago with the difference that I did not have to exit the country, we applied for renewal of tourists visa from within Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh in my case). My Vietnamese wife was doing the paperwork with them (which translated into 5 minutes of waiting if you provided some tip). Anyway, I did renew the visa a few times and I had no problem, but it was only over a year.

Apply for the 1 year business visa, no need to exit for 1 year.

If you marry your fiance, you should be eligible for a TT visa based on her TRC.  It is one year or the duration of her residency card, whichever is less.  It is multiple entry but you are not required to make periodic exits and reentries.

Of course you need to get married first. 

THIGV wrote:

If you marry your fiance, you should be eligible for a TT visa based on her TRC.  It is one year or the duration of her residency card, whichever is less.  It is multiple entry but you are not required to make periodic exits and reentries.

Of course you need to get married first. 

I'm always joking to my ex Vietnamese wife that I married her only for the special 5 years re-entry visa she's allowing me to have 

My wife will be going to Vietnam to teach tomorrow.  I have contacted Vietnam Embassy in Philippines and they advise that I am entitled to a dependent visa which allows you to stay as long as your wife's business visa ie. 12 months.
You need to contact the Immigration there.  Your wife should have been advised of this by her employer.

colinoscapee wrote:

Apply for the 1 year business visa, no need to exit for 1 year.

Just found a company through facebook that offers vietnam business visa service. For 12 month multiple entry, approval fee is US$ 540. Is this the going rate?

HenryJo wrote:

colinoscapee wrote:

Apply for the 1 year business visa, no need to exit for 1 year.

Just found a company through facebook that offers vietnam business visa service. For 12 month multiple entry, approval fee is US$ 540. Is this the going rate?

Do you have a sponsor?

HenryJo wrote:

colinoscapee wrote:

Apply for the 1 year business visa, no need to exit for 1 year.

Just found a company through facebook that offers vietnam business visa service. For 12 month multiple entry, approval fee is US$ 540. Is this the going rate?

NO!

$190

OceanBeach92107 wrote:

HenryJo wrote:

colinoscapee wrote:

Apply for the 1 year business visa, no need to exit for 1 year.

Just found a company through facebook that offers vietnam business visa service. For 12 month multiple entry, approval fee is US$ 540. Is this the going rate?

NO!

$190

Where?

HenryJo wrote:

OceanBeach92107 wrote:

HenryJo wrote:

Just found a company through facebook that offers vietnam business visa service. For 12 month multiple entry, approval fee is US$ 540. Is this the going rate?

NO!

$190

Where?

We don't usually promote individual visa agencies on here (I don't anyway).

You are welcome to send me a private message and I'll give you all the contact info for my trustworthy Visa on Arrival agent.

HOWEVER, I just noticed you are from Wales.

Only U.S. Citizens are being approved for the 1 year business visa (DN) at this time.

OceanBeach92107 wrote:

HenryJo wrote:

OceanBeach92107 wrote:

NO!

$190

Where?

We don't usually promote individual visa agencies on here (I don't anyway).

You are welcome to send me a private message and I'll give you all the contact info for my trustworthy Visa on Arrival agent.

HOWEVER, I just noticed you are from Wales.

Only U.S. Citizens are being approved for the 1 year business visa (DN) at this time.

Seems the $190 you quoted is for 12 month business visa for U.S. passport holder.

Neither the OP or myself is from U.S. Please check this beforehand or specify within the post you are quoting rate for U.S. passport holder only...This whole visa malarkey is confusing as it is.

BTW, 12 month business visa for other passport holders (non u.s. passport holders) has been suspended since 2 years ago. Just found out through a trustworthy visa on arrival agent.

HenryJo wrote:

OceanBeach92107 wrote:

HenryJo wrote:

Where?

We don't usually promote individual visa agencies on here (I don't anyway).

You are welcome to send me a private message and I'll give you all the contact info for my trustworthy Visa on Arrival agent.

HOWEVER, I just noticed you are from Wales.

Only U.S. Citizens are being approved for the 1 year business visa (DN) at this time.

Seems the $190 you quoted is for 12 month business visa for U.S. passport holder.

Neither the OP or myself is from U.S. Please check this beforehand or specify within the post you are quoting rate for U.S. passport holder only...This whole visa malarkey is confusing as it is.

BTW, 12 month business visa for other passport holders (non u.s. passport holders) has been suspended since 2 years ago. Just found out through a trustworthy visa on arrival agent.

If you have a "trustworthy" VOA agent, why are you asking questions here?

You expect a lot out of people who are answering your inquiries.

Nowhere in any of your posts in this thread do you specify your nationality.

As you can see in the post of mine that you quoted, I did specify that only US citizens could obtain it, because I did go out of my way to check your citizenship, because you didn't mention it.

We could go round and round on that point, but my point is that I went out of my way to answer your post.

Perhaps I should have stayed silent when you were considering paying someone well over $500 for something that isn't even possible for you to get.

As for the inability of other nationalities to obtain a one-year business Visa, category DN,  that's very old news here on the Forum, which you would know if you had been reading the previous threads on this subject, including one sticky thread.

Welsh, a sort of British with a strange accent and excellent close harmony singing.

From an Australian:

colinoscapee wrote:

Apply for the 1 year business visa, no need to exit for 1 year.

From an American:

OceanBeach92107 wrote:

As for the inability of other nationalities to obtain a one-year business Visa, category DN,  that's very old news here on the Forum, which you would know if you had been reading the previous threads on this subject, including one sticky thread.

Take your choice.

Fred wrote:

Welsh, a sort of British with a strange accent and excellent close harmony singing.

Apparently as an Englishman, you don't subscribe to the attribution signified by the nursery rhyme about an individual from Wales named Taffy.   

I'm afraid I'm unaware of that but there's a lovely old Scottish hymn we learnt at Sunday school about 4 and 20 young ladies from Inverness.

THIGV wrote:

From an Australian:

colinoscapee wrote:

Apply for the 1 year business visa, no need to exit for 1 year.

From an American:

OceanBeach92107 wrote:

As for the inability of other nationalities to obtain a one-year business Visa, category DN,  that's very old news here on the Forum, which you would know if you had been reading the previous threads on this subject, including one sticky thread.

Take your choice.

If you look at the date of my post you will notice it was before the changes took place.

Business visas are still available, but documentation has to be verified by the sponsor and the process is more stringent. The days of getting a DN visa from any agent without a legitimate sponsor are gone.

colinoscapee wrote:

THIGV wrote:

From an Australian:

colinoscapee wrote:

Apply for the 1 year business visa, no need to exit for 1 year.

From an American:

OceanBeach92107 wrote:

As for the inability of other nationalities to obtain a one-year business Visa, category DN,  that's very old news here on the Forum, which you would know if you had been reading the previous threads on this subject, including one sticky thread.

Take your choice.

If you look at the date of my post you will notice it was before the changes took place.

I noticed

Fred wrote:

I'm afraid I'm unaware of that but there's a lovely old Scottish hymn we learnt at Sunday school about 4 and 20 young ladies from Inverness.

I am surprised you don't know it.  I learned it from my father who learned it from his father who emigrated from Birmingham, England in the 1929's.   Perhaps the rhyme is considered not PC in modern England.  As it disparages the Welsh, I will not print it here but let you read.