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FCDO travel advice for Vietnam. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.

• Updated: 10 December 2025

• Warnings and insurance

  Tropical storm season The tropical storm season runs from May to November.…

• Entry requirements

  This information is for people travelling on a full ‘British citizen’…

• Safety and security

  Terrorism There is a high threat of terrorist attack globally affecting UK…

• Health

  Before you travel check that: your destination can provide the healthcare…

• Getting help

  The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) cannot provide…

• Updated: 22 September 2025

Strategic programme funds help the Foreign and Commonwealth Office deliver its Foreign Policy Priorities and the UK government’s priorities in Vietnam for the period 2014-2018.

• Updated: 28 July 2017

This guide sets out essential information for British nationals living in Vietnam.

• Updated: 23 September 2025

The G7 Foreign Ministers met on the margins of High-Level Week at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

• Updated: 23 September 2025

This call is under the UK Vietnam Fund for the financial years 2018/19 and 2019/20.

• Updated: 15 June 2018

Joint Statement from the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, the USA and the High Representative of the EU.

• Updated: 12 November 2025

UK business implications as Hanoi pulls out of hosting 2019 Asian Games.

• Updated: 6 May 2014

Defence Secretary John Healey MP gave the Lord Mayor’s Mansion House Defence and Security Lecture on Monday 20 October 2025.

• Updated: 21 October 2025

Guidance used by UK Visas and Immigration to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications.

• Updated: 22 September 2025