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Dog or cat from Thailand to Vietnam: official requirements

Possible. With nothing done yet, start at least 5 days ahead. The main steps: microchip (or tattoo) matching the documents, quarantine (health) certificate from the exporting country and apply to DLD in the e-Movement system.

Rules checked up to 13 October 2026From 4 official pages

Make my dated plan Reverse: Vietnam → Thailand

In short

Limited official guidance. The authority for leaving Thailand publishes little for this route. Everything it does say is here, with its wording. This follows the Department of Livestock Development's citizen's manual for the export health certificate (it covers every kind of live animal, not only pets) and the 2020 ministerial regulation on taking animals out of Thailand. The regulation also requires permission from the Director-General to take an animal out, under a 2015 DLD notification we could not read, so we don't know that permit's lead time or fee. DLD's English pet-travel pages don't open from our network. Confirm the steps with the animal quarantine station at the airport you leave from.

Limited official guidance. The authority for entering Vietnam publishes little for this route. Everything it does say is here, with its wording. Viet Nam's 2026 circular on animal quarantine sets out what happens at the border for a pet carried by a traveller, but it doesn't list what the exporting country's quarantine certificate must state (for example a rabies vaccination or its timing), and we found no official English page for pet owners. Ask the animal quarantine office at your arrival airport and your airline what the certificate must show before you travel.

At a glance

The rules on this route are the same for dogs and cats.

How early to start

5 days

whether or not your pet is already microchipped and vaccinated

Set by: Apply to DLD in the e-Movement system (3 working days can be up to 5 calendar days over a weekend (our conversion, not an official figure))

The least time the official waiting periods allow. Vet, lab and paperwork appointments come on top.

On this route

  • Official stamp on the certificate

Part of this route is still under review, so we don’t say what it doesn’t need.

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Thailand → Vietnam

What your pet needs

In the order you do them. Each step says whether Thailand (leaving) or Vietnam (entering) asks for it.

Taking a dog or cat out of Thailand (DLD): we summarised this from a short or older official page and it is still under review, so it may be incomplete.

  1. Get ready

    1. IdentificationLeaving Thailand

      Microchip (or tattoo) matching the documents

      DLD asks for dogs and cats to be tattooed or microchipped, at your expense, and the identification must match the application, the health certificate and the other documents. For a pet the document list asks for a microchip certificate issued by an animal hospital or clinic.

      Details and the official words

      “สุนัข แมว กระต่าย ให้ทำรอยสักหรือฝังไมโครชิป”

      “ใบรับรองการฝังไมโครชิป”

      “ออกโดยโรงพยาบาลสัตว์ หรือคลินิกรักษาสัตว์”

  2. In the days before you travel

    1. PaperworkThailand and Vietnam

      Quarantine (health) certificate from the exporting country

      Your pet travels with the quarantine certificate issued by the exporting country's authority. The border quarantine office in Viet Nam checks it. The circular doesn't say how recent it must be or what it must state: ask the quarantine office at your arrival airport.

      Details and the official words

      DLD health certificate at the animal quarantine station of your departure port: Before your pet leaves, take it to the animal quarantine station at the port you leave from (or another place DLD approves or the station's vet chooses). The vet there examines it and, as your destination requires, may hold it for observation, take samples for the lab, vaccinate or treat it, or mark it; then DLD signs the health certificate. There is no fee. Stations are open Monday to Friday, 08:30 to 16:30, except public holidays.

      “Cơ quan kiểm dịch động vật cửa khẩu thực hiện: Kiểm tra Giấy chứng nhận kiểm dịch của nước xuất khẩu; kiểm tra lâm sàng động vật;”

      “ก่อนดำเนินการส่งออกไปนอกราชอาณาจักรซึ่งสัตว์หรือซากสัตว์ ให้ผู้รับใบอนุญาตนำสัตว์หรือซากสัตว์ไปยังสถานกักกันสัตว์หรือที่พักซากสัตว์ของท่าออก หรือสถานกักกันสัตว์หรือที่พักซากสัตว์ที่กรมปศุสัตว์รับรอง หรือสถานที่ที่สัตวแพทย์ประจำท่าออกเห็นสมควร”

      “กรณีสัตว์มีชีวิต ระยะเวลาการกักสัตว์ ดูอาการ และ/หรือการเก็บตัวอย่างทางห้องปฏิบัติการ และ/หรือการทำวัคซีน และ/หรือการทำลายเชื้อโรคหรือพาหะนำโรค และ/หรือการทำเครื่องหมายประจำตัวสัตว์ ตามเงื่อนไขของประเทศปลายทางกำหนด”

      “ไม่มีค่าธรรมเนียม”

      “เปิดให้บริการวัน จันทร์ ถึง วัน ศุกร์ (ยกเว้นวันหยุดที่ทางราชการกำหนด) ตั้งแต่เวลา 08:30 - 16:30 น.”

    2. Official stampLeaving Thailand

      Apply to DLD in the e-Movement system

      Apply for the health certificate online in DLD's e-Movement system (https://newemove.dld.go.th/req/), attaching the documents there or emailing them to the animal quarantine station at the port you will leave from, and make an appointment with that station. The documents include your ID card or, for a foreigner, your passport; the vaccination certificate showing your pet's microchip number; the microchip certificate; the airway bill; and what your destination asks for. DLD's processing time is 3 working days once the documents are complete.

      The official wording is ambiguous. Confirm this point with the authority.

      Details and the official words

      DLD's page on its import and export procedure says the application form R.1/1 (for taking animals into, out of or through Thailand) is filed in e-Movement at least 7 working days ahead, but it describes that step for imports. We don't know whether the same lead time applies when you leave: ask the quarantine station.

      An application filed in e-Movement outside office hours is handled on the next working day. If documents are missing, you have 7 working days to correct them, or the application is cancelled.

      “สามารถส่งเอกสารแนบผ่านระบบ e-Movement หรือผ่านช่องทางไปรษณีย์อิเล็กทรอนิกส์ (e-mail) ถึงด่านกักกันสัตว์ท่าออกที่จะนำสัตว์หรือซากสัตว์ออก”

      “ผู้รับบริการต้องติดต่อแจ้งนัดหมายเจ้าหน้าที่ด่านกักกันสัตว์ท่าออกเพื่อดำเนินการเกี่ยวกับสัตว์หรือซากสัตว์ให้เป็นไปตามระเบียบข้อกำหนดหรือเงื่อนไขของประเทศปลายทาง”

      “กรณีสัตว์เลี้ยง (สุนัข แมว กระต่าย) ต้องมีเอกสารรับรองการฉีดวัคซีนที่มีการระบุเลขไมโครชิพ”

      “ระยะเวลาในการดำเนินการรวม : 3 วันทำการ”

      “บัตรประจำตัวประชาชน”

      “(กรณีชาวต่างชาติ)”

      “Bill of Lading (B/L) หรือ Airway Bill หรือ Truckway bill หรือ Railway Bill”

      “หลังเวลาทำการ เจ้าหน้าที่จะดำเนินการในวันทำการถัดไป”

      “คำขอต้องดำเนินการแก้ไขภายใน 7 วันทำการ นับตั้งแต่วันที่ได้รับแจ้ง”

      “https://newemove.dld.go.th/req/”

      “ให้ผู้ประสงค์จะส่งออกไปนอกราชอาณาจักรซึ่งสัตว์หรือซากสัตว์ ยื่นคำขออนุญาตนำสัตว์หรือซากสัตว์ออกนอกราชอาณาจักรต่ออธิบดีหรือผู้ซึ่งอธิบดีมอบหมาย”

      “ยื่นแบบคำขออนุญาตนำสัตว์/ซากสัตว์ เข้า ออก ผ่านราชอาณาจักรไทย (แบบ ร.1/1) ผ่านระบบการเคลื่อนย้ายสัตว์และซากสัตว์ทางอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ (e - movement system) ล่วงหน้าไม่น้อยกว่า 7 วันทำการ”

  3. Travel day and arrival

    1. On arrivalEntering Vietnam

      Declare your pet at the border animal quarantine office

      For up to 2 animals you bring as pets or on a trip (not on the banned list), declare them for import quarantine directly at the animal quarantine office at the border. It checks the certificate and examines your pet, and issues Viet Nam's import quarantine certificate within 1 working day if everything is in order.

      Details and the official words

      “Kiểm dịch đối với trường hợp mang theo người không quá 02 con động vật với mục đích để nuôi làm cảnh, sinh hoạt trong gia đình hoặc mang theo đi du lịch, công tác, quá cảnh và không thuộc Danh mục động vật cấm xuất khẩu, nhập khẩu theo quy định”

      “Chủ hàng khai báo kiểm dịch nhập khẩu trực tiếp tại Cơ quan kiểm dịch động vật cửa khẩu;”

      “Trong thời hạn 01 ngày làm việc kể từ ngày thực hiện kiểm dịch, Cơ quan kiểm dịch động vật cửa khẩu cấp Giấy chứng nhận kiểm dịch động vật nhập khẩu”

Good to know

  • The circular doesn't list the vaccinations a pet must have. At the border, the quarantine office vaccinates an animal that hasn't been vaccinated against dangerous infectious diseases, and takes samples from an animal suspected of an infectious disease (the certificate then comes within 1 working day of the test result).
  • An animal with a dangerous infectious disease is destroyed near the border crossing, and an animal whose foreign quarantine certificate isn't valid is held.
  • DLD issues the certificate following your destination's conditions, so bring what your destination asks for: its import permit (if it issues one), its own certificate forms (for example an EU annex or a veterinary certificate) and the lab reports its conditions require.

Money

What it costs

Government fees exactly as the official pages state them, and what vets and labs in Thailand publish for the steps above. The two are never added together.

Government fees on this route

What vets and labs charge Not official figures

We have no published vet or lab prices for Thailand yet.

Prices that businesses publish on their own pages, quoted as we read them; yours can differ. Ranges are the lowest to highest of these examples, never our estimate. How we collect prices

Airline fees aren’t included: check your airline’s pet page.

Round trip

Coming back to Thailand

Nothing for the trip back has to happen before your pet leaves Thailand.

The trip back asks for 7 steps: import licence application (Form R.1/1) and import permit, rabies vaccination at least 21 days before departure, leptospirosis vaccination (or a negative test) and distemper, hepatitis and parvovirus vaccinations at least 21 days before departure and more.

Every step from Vietnam to Thailand

Nearby routes

Other routes

Where this comes from

Official sources

Last checked against the official pages: 2026-10-13.

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Questions owners ask

Does my dog or cat need a rabies blood test to go from Thailand to Vietnam?

We couldn't find this in our summary of the rules, but that summary is short and still under review. Ask the official authority before you rely on it.

Do I need an import permit to bring my dog or cat into Vietnam?

We couldn't find this in our summary of the rules, but that summary is short and still under review. Ask the official authority before you rely on it.

Will my dog or cat be quarantined in Vietnam?

We couldn't find this in our summary of the rules, but that summary is short and still under review. Ask the official authority before you rely on it.

How early should I start preparing my pet for Thailand to Vietnam?

With nothing done yet, start at least 5 days ahead. The main steps: microchip (or tattoo) matching the documents, quarantine (health) certificate from the exporting country and apply to DLD in the e-Movement system.

Every rule here is quoted from the official page and checked word for word; not legal advice. How we verify · Report a mistake

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