online pros living in Vietnam thread - Page 88

I use revolut here and there is a fee between 30k-45k VND (1.17-1,76$) per cashout. Buy the metal premium for about 16$/ month then you have no fees more than this up to 800$/month. Although Saccombank which seem to be lowest fee, there is max cashout for 3 million VND so yeah some more fee if u cashout for rent n bills as you need to do 2-3 withdrawals. You get like 1% cashback everytime use the card for supermarket, shopping, booking hotels etc.

There is maybe better ways, but I doubt it.

Regarding visarun every 3rd month, my first run I could apply my next visa before it expired and some american living here said it was the same for him. The 2nd visarun I got application rejected and had to wait in Cambodia until it expired. On a positive note it went fast after I updated my application and no extra nonsense.

Ok so spell it out for me like I'm slow. I wouldn't be able to pay for rent by transferring the landlord straight from my UK bank acc ? And same for groceries etc, I can't just tap my contactless for all this stuff?

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04-24-2024 , 11:26 AM

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Danijelinho

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Join Date: Jan 2016 Posts: 38

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Originally Posted by LimpAll-In

I doubt that would be an option, so you need cashout and we went thru all the banks here. Saccombank seemed to be lowest fees. Then you use cash mostly for eat out and stuff like that. While if u go to supermarket or some fancier stores u can use your card and get a juicy 1% cashback ; P Same for online shopping, booking hotel, flight and so on.

I think revolut would be the best choice, I use it for pokerstars aswell and get instant withdrawals, takes max 10min sometimes.

If there is better option someone can enlighten us.

Typing this while grinding n my english sux but yeah

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04-28-2024 , 02:16 AM

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shipitnzipit

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Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 72

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Originally Posted by GonZo72

If you visa run from Saigon to Bangkok every 3 months:
- flights 120$
- 3 months visa urgent 2 working days 100$
- hotel let's say 5 days to be safe for the immigration system to update that you are a good boy and are now outside of the country and can apply again for a new tourist visa at 20-25$ per day for the hotel

Overall you gonna spend 350$ every 3 months just for visa, flights and your hotel. Then that's 20 days that you gonna spend doing forced visa runs every year. So yea Vietnam is cool but there are much better alternatives in the region if you want to live long-term here.

And if you check for the visa it used to be 25$ for 3 months and 4 working days pre Covid time but if you start to apply you gonna see that the prices are totally different, they are really greedy AF now.

https://vietnamvisa.govt.vn/

You don't have to do all that. I've been getting my visa pre-approved without leaving the country. Just use an agent....costs like an extra $10 and go about business as usual. I do bus visa runs every 3 months. Everything is same same as before if you know what you're doing.

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04-28-2024 , 08:33 AM

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GonZo72

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Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 915

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Originally Posted by shipitnzipit

In February this year from what I heard it was not possible, got confirmation in expats living in Da Nang group on FB as well, it might have changed since then. Anyway I just spent something like 2 and half month there then moved somewhere else. How much do you spend for a visa run total? just curious.

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