Procedures for foreigners returning to Vietnam, as well as answers to some frequently asked queries from our readers.

Increased airfare has made travel back to the homeland more difficult, making many overseas Vietnamese make tough decisions.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc requested competent authorities to have a roadmap for process of safe repatriation of Vietnamese citizens stranded abroad due to COVID-19 pandemic, while he was addressing a meeting on COVID-19 prevention and control on Friday morning.

 Nearly 300 Vietnamese citizens stranded in Canada due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) returned home by a Vietnam Airlines plane on April 30, departing from Toronto to Quang Ninh while two special flights departed from Hanoi on Thursday and Friday, carrying Canadians stranded back home.