Da Nang Immigration Office 2026: Address, Hours, and What They Will and Will Not Do
The Da Nang immigration office sits at 7 Tran Quy Cap in Hai Chau district, a few minutes east of the Han River on the same side as the city centre. If you live in Da Nang long enough, you eventually end up on that street with a folder of papers, and the trip usually goes one of two ways. Either you walk out with a receipt and come back a week later for a stamp, or you find out within ten minutes that your visa type is not something this office deals with at all.
That second outcome is the one worth knowing about before you take a morning off work. Most foreigners in Da Nang hold an e-visa or entered on a visa exemption, and neither of those can be extended here or anywhere else in Vietnam. The building on Tran Quy Cap is real, the staff are helpful with the applications they are allowed to accept, and it will not help you if you are on the wrong entry status.
What the office does handle is worth understanding, because a lot of people in the city assume a visa run is their only choice and then pay 1.2 million dong for a service they did not need. If your entry stamp says DL, DN, LD, DT, or you have a temporary residence card in progress, this is the cheaper road. This guide covers the address and hours, the visa types the office accepts, the ones it turns away, the documents an extension application needs, the fees, and what a normal visit actually feels like.
Address, hours, and getting there
The full address is No. 7 Tran Quy Cap, Hai Chau district, Da Nang. The office is the Da Nang branch of the Vietnam Immigration Department, sometimes written as the A18 office in older guides, and it handles the whole central Vietnam region rather than just the city.
Opening hours are Monday to Friday, 07:30 to 11:30 and 13:30 to 16:30. It is closed on Saturdays and Sundays, and it closes for public holidays, including the Tet break. If your visa expires on a day the office is shut, that does not shift your deadline. An expired stamp is an overstay whatever the calendar says, so plan the application around the working days you actually have.
From the beach side of the city, An Thuong and My Khe, the ride is under 5 km and takes 15 to 25 minutes by Grab or taxi depending on the bridges. From the airport it is shorter still. From Hoi An you are looking at 30 to 45 minutes each way, which is worth thinking about twice if you plan to queue, submit, and come back for collection. A Grab bike is the quickest way to arrive early, but you will be carrying a passport and a photo envelope, so a car is the calmer choice.
Hand the driver the street name rather than trying to explain the office. Tran Quy Cap is a short street in the administrative quarter, and drivers in Da Nang know it. If you use the maps app on your phone, search the street number rather than "immigration office", because there is more than one government building in the area.
What the office will actually do
The list of applications this office accepts comes down to one thing: a sponsor. Extensions here are built around sponsored visa categories, not around how long you have been in the country or how much you like Da Nang.
The categories that generally qualify:
- Tourist visas issued through an embassy or consulate, coded DL
- Business visas, DN1 and DN2, usually extended with a company letter
- Work visas, LD1 and LD2, handled with the employer
- Investment visas, DT
- Student visas, DH, with the school as sponsor
- Temporary residence card applications and renewals for people who already qualify
- Five-year visa exemption certificate holders, who have a limited extension route of their own
The extension itself is normally 30 days for a tourist category, and longer for business, work, and investment categories where the original purpose of the stay is still valid. An extension is granted once for most tourist entries. Come back a second time with the same DL stamp and you will likely be told to leave and re-enter.
Two practical notes. First, the sponsor is not optional and you cannot sponsor yourself, even if you own property or hold a long lease in the city. It has to be a Vietnamese company, organisation, or licensed agency. Second, the officer has discretion. A complete file with six months of passport validity and a clean record gets approved in the ordinary course. A file with a previous overstay, or a passport running out of validity, can be refused, and there is no appeal window to argue your case in.
What the office will not do
Here is the part that sends people home. The Da Nang immigration office does not extend e-visas, and it does not extend visa exemptions. Walk in with a 90-day e-visa and a neatly prepared file and you will be turned away at the counter, politely and usually within a couple of minutes.
The reason is structural rather than personal. The e-visa is issued by the immigration department as a fixed entry permit with a start date and an end date set at the application stage. There is no in-country procedure attached to that visa category, so there is nothing for a Da Nang officer to process. The same goes for the 45-day exemption used by several European and Asian passports, and the 30-day ASEAN exemption. Exemption is a status, not a visa. There is no extension mechanism for either.
This is where rumours in the expat Facebook groups get expensive. If an agent in Da Nang tells you they can extend your e-visa without you leaving Vietnam, the mechanism they are describing does not exist. What agencies can genuinely do is file a fresh e-visa while you are still in the country, manage the run to Lao Bao, or handle an extension for a DL or DN visa that is actually eligible.
So if you hold an e-visa or entered on an exemption, your options are narrower than they look:
- Do the Lao Bao run, 290 km each way on a same-day van or private car, with a new e-visa approved before you exit
- Fly out to Bangkok, and come back on a fresh e-visa or a new exemption entry
- Qualify for a different category, which in practice means a sponsor, and switch before your current stay expires
For most people in Da Nang on a 90-day e-visa, the first option is the one that fits. The full Lao Bao walkthrough is on our step-by-step visa run page.
Documents for an extension application
The file for a sponsored extension is small and predictable. Bring originals, not scans, and bring photocopies as well so you are not sent out to find a copy shop mid-queue.
- Your passport, valid for at least six months beyond the extension and carrying two blank pages
- The current visa or entry stamp
- Two passport photos, 4x6 cm, white background, taken recently
- A sponsor letter from the company, organisation, or licensed agency backing the application
- Proof of temporary residence registration, which your landlord or hotel files with the ward police
- Photocopies of the passport data page and the current visa
Two of those cause most of the trouble. Passport validity is checked first, and a passport with under six months left will stop the application before anything else is looked at. Renewing at your embassy first is the only fix.
The residence registration is the second one, and it matters more in Da Nang in 2026 than it used to. City police have been running inspections of accommodation facilities, checking that every foreign guest has been declared to the ward, with fines issued to hosts who skipped it. If your landlord never registered you, sort that out before you go to Tran Quy Cap, because an extension application sitting on top of a missing declaration invites questions you would rather not answer at the counter.
One honest caveat on the paperwork. Sources disagree on the form number for the application itself, and you will see it written as N1, NA5, N14, or N5 depending on the visa category and the year the guide was written. The right form depends on your entry status, so confirm it with your sponsor or agency rather than trusting a number off a blog, including this one. The office also hands out the current form at the counter.
Fees and processing time
The official fee for a 30-day extension is around 500,000 VND, paid at the cashier inside the office. That is the government stamping fee and it is not negotiable, whatever anyone quotes you outside.
Budget another 100,000 VND for incidentals. Photos, photocopies, parking, and the two Grab rides if you do not ride a motorbike. On a straight office extension, that is the whole bill. There is no agency commission to pay when you file it yourself.
If your visa category is business, work, or investment, the official fee scale runs higher and spreads wider. 2026 sources quote anything from a few hundred thousand dong to close to four million dong for a longer extension, depending on the category and the number of days added. Your sponsor will know which bracket you fall in.
Going through an agency instead costs roughly 1,200,000 to 1,500,000 VND all in for a 30-day tourist extension. That covers the sponsor letter, the submission, and the collection trip, and it is the same service you can do yourself for about 600,000 VND. The trade is your morning against about 700,000 dong. For a lot of people the agency wins on the first application, when the paperwork is unfamiliar, and stops being worth it the second time.
Processing takes five to ten working days. You leave your passport at the office during that window, which catches people out, because it means you cannot travel and cannot easily arrange anything that needs the document. If your visa expires during the processing period, that is normally fine, since the application is on file. Ask at the counter to be sure for your own dates, and get the receipt.
What the visit is actually like
Arrive before 08:00. The office opens at 07:30 and the queue builds quickly once it does, with agents filing batches for clients alongside individual applicants. People who go often report the counter stops taking new submissions somewhere around 10:30 in the morning, ahead of the published 11:30 close, so a late start can cost you the whole day rather than half an hour.
Expect a security check at the door, a numbered queue, and a document review at a window before anything is accepted. Officers are used to foreigners and the interaction is short. They check the passport against the visa, flip through the file, and either take it or tell you what is missing.
If they take it, you pay at the cashier, get a receipt with a collection date, and leave without your passport. Keep that receipt somewhere you will find it again, because it is the only record tying you to the document. Collection is at the same office, on the date printed on the slip, and it is usually faster than the submission queue.
If they refuse, they will not give you a written reason and there is no appeal to file. Common reasons are insufficient passport validity, a prior overstay showing in the system, a missing sponsor letter, or an entry status that was never eligible in the first place. When that happens to an e-visa or exemption holder, the run to Lao Bao is the answer rather than a second attempt at the counter. Pair this with our guide to staying longer in Vietnam if you are weighing the two routes against each other.
Frequently asked questions
Where is the Da Nang immigration office?
No. 7 Tran Quy Cap, Hai Chau district, Da Nang. It is the branch of the Vietnam Immigration Department that covers central Vietnam, and it handles extensions, temporary residence card matters, and residence paperwork for the region.
What are the opening hours?
Monday to Friday, 07:30 to 11:30 in the morning and 13:30 to 16:30 in the afternoon. Closed weekends and public holidays. Submit in the morning if you can, since the counter effectively stops taking new files well before the lunch break.
Can I extend my e-visa at the Da Nang immigration office?
No. The e-visa cannot be extended or renewed from inside Vietnam, in Da Nang or anywhere else. It is issued as a fixed entry permit with dates set when you apply, so there is no extension procedure for that category. You will be turned away, politely and quickly. The route is to leave and re-enter on a new e-visa, which for Da Nang means the Lao Bao land crossing or a flight out.
Can I extend a 45-day visa exemption in Da Nang?
No. Exemption is a status rather than a visa, and there is no extension mechanism for it. Holders of the 45-day exemption and the 30-day ASEAN exemption have to exit and re-enter to reset their stay. That said, an exemption holder usually has the cheapest run available, since the entry itself costs nothing and a land border re-entry needs no advance filing.
How much does a visa extension cost in Da Nang?
Around 500,000 VND in official fees for a 30-day extension, plus about 100,000 VND for photos, copies, and transport. Through an agency, expect 1,200,000 to 1,500,000 VND all in. Business, work, and investment categories sit on a higher official scale.
How long does processing take?
Five to ten working days. The office keeps your passport for that period, so do not plan a trip, a flight, or anything else needing the document until it comes back. The collection date is printed on the receipt you receive at the cashier.
Can I submit the application myself, without an agent?
Not on your own, no. Extensions are sponsor-based, and you cannot sponsor yourself even if you own property or hold a long lease in Da Nang. You need a Vietnamese company, organisation, or licensed agency behind the file. Once you have that letter, you can walk the documents in and collect them yourself and keep the agency's margin.
What happens if my extension is refused?
You get no written reason and there is no appeal. The usual causes are passport validity under six months, an overstay in your record, an incomplete sponsor letter, or an entry status that was never eligible. If you hold an e-visa or entered on an exemption, a refusal is not a setback so much as confirmation, and the run to Lao Bao is the next step rather than another attempt at the counter.
If the office is not an option for you
Most foreigners living in Da Nang are on an e-visa, and for that group the honest answer is that Tran Quy Cap has nothing to offer. That is not a dead end. It just means your extension comes from leaving and coming back, and the Lao Bao crossing on the Laos border is 290 km west of the city, open daily, and workable in a single day if you leave early.
Our van picks up between 04:00 and 06:00 from hotels and apartments across Da Nang and Hoi An, runs the Hai Van Pass, handles the Laos side at Densavan, and gets you back in the city the same evening with a fresh entry stamp. Private cars are available for couples, families, and anyone who wants to set their own schedule.
Message WhatsApp at +84 33 410 3857 with three things: your passport country, where you are staying, and the date your current stay ends. That is enough to tell you whether a fresh e-visa needs to be filed before run day, and how much time you have to file it.
One last thing on timing. If your stamp has already run out, deal with it before you travel. The overstay fine page covers how the daily penalty is calculated under Decree 282 and the difference between paying at the office and paying at the border.
