According to the latest announcement from the Henley Passport Index, Vietnam ranked 90th, down one place compared to the first quarter (89th), but up five places compared to the end of 2021 (95th).
Vietnamese citizens holding ordinary passports are currently allowed to visit 54 destinations without a visa, only needing a visa on arrival or eTA (electronic visa).
Visa-free destinations: Cook Islands, Micronesia, Niue, Barbados, Haiti, Oman, Saint Vincent & Grenadines, Dominica, Brunei, Cambodia, Singapore, Laos, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Chile, Ecuador, Panama.
Destinations accepting eTA: Taiwan (China), Sri Lanka.
The new ordinary passport model will be applied from July 1. Accordingly, the green cover will be changed to purple-blue. The procedures for issuance and exchange will remain the same as the old passport.
Places that accept visa on arrival: Marshall Islands, Palau Islands, Samoa, Tuvalu, Iran, Kuwait, St Lucia, Maldives, Nepal, Tajikistan, East Timor, Bolivia, Cape Verde Islands, Comoro Islands, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia.
The Henley Passport Index is a ranking by the global citizenship and residence advisory firm Henley & Partners, headquartered in London, UK. Statistics are conducted on 199 passports and 227 global destinations, updated quarterly. The assessment is based on exclusive data provided by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) since 2006. For each visa-free destination, that national passport will be awarded one point.
Currently, the most powerful passports in the world still belong to Singapore and Japan, with 192 visa-free destinations.
