Important notice
Please note that the visa issuing office in Ho Chi Minh City is temporarily closed. Please see details.
Ambassador's Vietnamese languague blog
Ambassador Mark Kent writes blog in Vietnamese about hot topics as he is keen to engage more with the public.
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British Embassy
Central Building
4th floor
31 Hai Ba Trung
Hanoi
Hanoi
Telephone:
(+84) (4) 3936 0500
Fax:(+84) (4)3936 0561 (for Embassy in general)
Office hours, Monday-Friday:
08:30-12:30 / 13:30-16:30 (Local time)
01:30-05:30 / 06:30-09:30 (GMT)
UK in Vietnam - the British Embassy in Hanoi
"Welcome to the website of the British Embassy in Vietnam.
The UK and Vietnam are working closely on five shared priority areas: trade and investment; development (including good governance, accountability and rule of law issues); foreign policy (including reform of international architecture, Security Council co-operation and climate change); education and tackling illegal migration and organised crime. See details
Swine Flu advice
Up-to-date information for people travelling to countries affected by the Swine Flu outbreak.
Chevening Scholarships Programme
We are now inviting applications for the Chevening Scholarships Programme for the academic year 2010-1011.
Important visa notice
From the 1st October 2009, for all PBS Tier 4 applications made outside of the UK, the amounts required to meet the maintenance criteria must be held in your personal or your parent(s)/ legal guardian(s) bank account for a minimum period of 28 days prior to application lodgement. The end of that 28 day period must not be more than one month before the date of your application, for which you must show bank statements/other evidence.
The transitional arrangements that were in place allowing funds to be held on the date of application only will no longer apply to applications made outside the UK, on or after 1 October.
LATEST NEWS
Ambassador's update: Changes in Diplomacy - 2 interesting BBC series
16 November 2009
Our ambassador introduces links to 2 interesting BBC series on diplomacy and discusses the power of Facebook with regard to recent technical difficulties in accessing Facebook in Vietnam.
Pro-poor business projects to be supported by Vietnam Challenge Fund
10 November 2009
A new financing instrument providing grant co-funding to new business projects that will directly benefit the poor was launched with the budget of $3 million for 2009 - 2011
British Council Vietnam
