Fake PAI websites: how to find the real one
Short answerThe official Pre-Arrival Information (PAI) declaration is only on prearrival.immigration.gov.vn. Below are the official warnings about look-alike sites and how to tell them apart.
Checked 28 October 2026 by the Arrival Card Finder editorial team against official sources. How we check
Official warnings
Immigration Department, Ministry of Public Security, 13 May 2026
Several fake websites impersonate the Pre-Arrival Information system and may defraud applicants' credit cards. Use only the official site.
Read the official warning
Look-alike sites named by official sources
No official source has named a specific look-alike domain for this form yet, so check the address yourself every time.
How to spot the official site
- The address must be exactly prearrival.immigration.gov.vn. Type it yourself or use the official link on this page instead of clicking an ad.
- Look closely at the spelling and the ending. Look-alike sites copy the form's name in a slightly different address.
- The official form is free. A request for a service fee or card details means you are on the wrong site.
- Check that the address is exactly prearrival.immigration.gov.vn. It sits under immigration.gov.vn and ends in .gov.vn, the Vietnamese government domain.
- Lai Chau Provincial Police also warn that scammers have set up fraudulent websites to steal the card details of international visitors.
- No official source mentions a PAI fee, so be very careful with any PAI site that asks for your card details.
Already paid a fake site?
- Fill in the real form on the official site. CARICOM IMPACS says these sites "charge fees for fake forms that hold no value", and the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service says users of the fake C5 site for Jamaica will not receive a valid form.
- Do not pay anything more. Taiwan's National Immigration Agency says that if a site asks you to pay, do not pay.
- Report it. In the Philippines, the Bureau of Immigration asks people to report fake eTravel sites to the CICC hotline 1326 or at cicc.gov.ph/report.
- Keep in mind what you shared. Official warnings say these sites can collect personal data (Singapore's ICA), be used for data theft (Indonesian Customs), ask for bank details (Chile's SAG) and defraud credit cards (Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security).
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Official sources
Every fact on this page comes from these government pages and official travel advice.