Vietnam e-Visa: 5 Mistakes That Can Stop Your Trip

A Vietnam e-Visa can be officially approved and still cause problems when you travel. A name or passport mismatch, the wrong validity dates, an incorrect checkpoint, or a last-minute processing problem may not become obvious until airline or immigration checks.

This guide covers five of the most preventable Vietnam e-Visa mistakes, how to catch them before departure, and what to check again after your visa is approved.

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Key Takeaways

• Enter your name and passport information directly from the passport you will carry, following the official application’s ICAO-name instructions.
• Make sure the visa’s actual validity dates and single- or multiple-entry status cover your complete itinerary.
• Select eligible entry and exit checkpoints you genuinely expect to use, and verify the consequences if your route changes after approval.
• Do not treat the stated processing period as a safe application deadline. GlobeKit recommends applying at least two weeks before departure during normal periods, with additional margin around major Vietnamese holidays.
• After approval, compare the issued e-Visa against your passport and final itinerary, then print the visa and keep a digital backup.
• Do not rely on an airport correction or urgent commercial service as your backup plan. Last-minute assistance may exist, but it can be expensive and uncertain.

Structured Explanation

How This Guide Was Researched

This guide was assembled from three kinds of sources: official Vietnam Immigration and e-Visa materials, traveler-facing government guidance, and real-world traveler discussions.

The primary sources are the Vietnam Immigration Department’s official e-Visa system, including its application instructions and FAQ. Those sources were cross-checked against current Vietnam entry guidance from the U.S. State Department and the UK government where additional clarification was useful.

Traveler reports were also reviewed to identify recurring points of confusion, including name mismatches, amendment delays, and errors discovered only after an e-Visa had been approved. Those accounts are used only as examples of real-world traveler experiences. They do not establish universal airline or immigration policy and do not override current government guidance.

Where official requirements and practical planning advice are different, this guide keeps that distinction clear. GlobeKit recommendations—such as allowing a larger processing buffer than the published minimum—are intended to reduce avoidable travel risk, not to replace rules published by Vietnamese authorities.

Visa and entry procedures can change, so always verify the current requirements for your passport, route, and travel dates through official sources before departure.

How an Approved Vietnam e-Visa Can Still Cause Problems

A Vietnam e-Visa is part of a chain of matching information:

Passport → Application → Approved e-Visa → Airline check → Vietnam Immigration

Vietnam Immigration reviews the application and, if approved, issues the e-Visa. But the document still has to work with the passport and itinerary the traveler actually presents later.

That matters because approval does not necessarily catch every problem that can affect travel. A passport digit may be wrong. A name may not match the passport correctly. The approved validity period may not cover the actual trip, or the traveler may later replace the passport used in the application.

Current U.S. government guidance tells travelers to check the issued e-Visa carefully and make sure its information matches the passport. An error can become important only when an airline or immigration officer compares the documents.

The safest way to think about the process is simple:

Approval means the visa has been issued. It does not mean you are finished checking it.

Mistake 1: Passport and Name Mismatches

Passport names do not always fit neatly into familiar first-name, middle-name, and last-name fields.

Some travelers have several given names. Others have only one name, no conventional surname, hyphenated names, or names that appear differently across booking and government systems.

Vietnam Immigration’s current e-Visa FAQ instructs applicants to enter their surname, middle name, and given name exactly as shown on the passport ICAO line. These are the machine-readable lines near the bottom of the passport identity page.

That makes the passport itself—not memory, an airline profile, or another traveler’s example—the safest source when completing the form.

The same care should be applied to the passport number, date of birth, nationality, sex, and passport-validity information. Check every digit and date before payment and make sure the uploaded passport image is clear and complete.

For U.S. travelers, current State Department guidance says the passport should have at least six months of validity beyond arrival in Vietnam. Vietnam Immigration’s current FAQ adds another technical point: the e-Visa validity period must be at least 30 days shorter than the passport’s remaining validity.

Passport requirements can differ by traveler and document type, so check the current official guidance that applies to your passport before applying.

Traveler Example: Approved Visa, but the Name Still Caused a Boarding Problem

In one firsthand traveler account, a traveler with a single-name passport reported entering “LNU” in the surname field. The e-Visa was approved, but the traveler later reported being denied boarding because the visa name did not correctly match the passport.

That does not establish that every missing middle name, space, or formatting difference causes denied boarding. Airline and immigration outcomes can vary.

It demonstrates the narrower point that matters here:

An approved visa does not make a material identity mismatch harmless.

The practical rule is to copy identity information directly from the passport and check it again before submitting.

Mistake 2: Visa Dates That Don’t Cover Your Trip

Vietnam e-Visas may currently be issued for up to 90 days and can be single-entry or multiple-entry.

Those options still have to fit the actual itinerary.

If the visa becomes valid on August 11 but the flight lands on August 10, the traveler has a genuine approved visa that does not yet cover the arrival. The same problem occurs if the departure date falls after the visa expires.

A regional itinerary can create another problem. You might enter Vietnam, fly to Cambodia or Thailand for several days, and then return to Vietnam for the flight home. That second arrival requires an entry type that allows another entry.

Travel changes do not automatically change the dates printed on an e-Visa. A flight moved forward, delayed into another day, or substantially rerouted can therefore create a mismatch between the approved validity period and the new itinerary.

GlobeKit’s practical recommendation is to request a reasonable validity window that covers the real trip and leaves some margin for ordinary travel changes, while remaining inside the permitted maximum.

That extra margin is planning advice, not an official requirement.

Most importantly, check the dates and entry type on the issued visa. Do not rely on the dates you remember requesting.

Mistake 3: Choosing the Wrong Entry or Exit Checkpoint

The e-Visa application asks travelers to select intended entry and exit locations, and e-Visas are usable only through border gates designated for e-Visa travel.

Current U.S. and UK government guidance also tells travelers to use the entry and exit locations selected in the application.

This can become confusing when an itinerary changes after approval. A traveler may switch airports, change from an air arrival to a land crossing, confuse similarly named border points, or assume that the final city on the ticket is the place that matters.

Connecting itineraries deserve particular attention. For example, current UK guidance notes that travelers transferring from an international flight to a domestic flight in Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City must clear Vietnamese immigration before continuing.

Some commercial visa sites have suggested that newer e-Visas provide more freedom to switch checkpoints because the selected location may not always appear on the printed visa.

That is not strong enough evidence to use as a planning rule.

The conservative approach is to select the eligible entry and exit points you genuinely expect to use and plan around them. If the itinerary changes after approval, check current official guidance or contact the Vietnam Immigration support system rather than assuming the change is harmless.

This does not mean every traveler attempting a different eligible checkpoint will automatically be refused. It means current government guidance is strong enough that anecdotal flexibility is not something to build a trip around.

Mistake 4: Treating “3 Working Days” as Enough Time

Vietnam’s official e-Visa instructions describe processing in working days. Current U.S. guidance gives a practical expectation of roughly three to five working days and warns that application volume or holidays can extend the process.

Neither description should be read as a safe traveler deadline.

Three working days is not the same as 72 hours. Weekends and holidays can consume much of the calendar time before a flight, and the published processing period does not create extra room for a rejected passport image, payment problem, incorrect information, amendment request, or other delay.

A traveler applying only a few working days before departure has very little margin for anything to go wrong.

Traveler Example: Amendment Requests Extended the Process

One recent applicant described repeatedly receiving an “amendment required” status even after resubmitting requested information. The traveler later reported that the visa was eventually approved.

That experience does not establish a normal processing time, and it does not establish why the amendments occurred.

It illustrates why the stated processing period and the amount of time a traveler should actually leave before departure are two different things.

For normal travel periods, GlobeKit recommends applying at least two weeks before departure, with additional margin around major Vietnamese holidays.

That is deliberately conservative planning advice. It is not an official guarantee or an official application deadline.

After submitting, save the registration code, payment confirmation, application email, and a copy or screenshot of the information entered. Monitor the official application-status system and respond promptly if an amendment is requested.

Also review everything carefully before payment. After submission, do not assume the application can simply be reopened and freely edited. If information is wrong, check the application status and use Vietnam Immigration’s official support process.

Mistake 5: Treating Approval as the Finish Line

Approval should trigger one more complete document check.

Place the issued e-Visa beside the passport and compare them carefully.

Check:

• Full name and name order
• Passport number
• Date of birth
• Nationality
• Visa-valid-from date
• Visa-valid-to date
• Single-entry or multiple-entry status
• Entry and exit information where applicable
• Final itinerary

Then confirm that the passport being carried is the same passport used for the application.

Current U.S. and UK government guidance tells travelers to enter and leave Vietnam using the same passport. If that passport has been renewed, replaced after damage, reported lost, or exchanged for another passport held by a dual national, do not assume the existing e-Visa automatically transfers.

Traveler Example: The Approved Visa Sat Unchecked Until the Airport

In another firsthand traveler report, the traveler said airport document control found that the passport-expiration date shown on the approved e-Visa differed from the actual passport by one day.

The traveler later acknowledged receiving the visa roughly 15 days earlier without noticing the discrepancy before travel. The trip was disrupted when the mismatch was discovered at the airport.

The account does not establish whether the traveler, the application process, or another part of the system produced the incorrect date.

That is not the important lesson.

The important lesson is that the discrepancy was visible on the approved document and remained unnoticed until the traveler reached the airport.

That is exactly why approval should begin the final audit rather than end it.

Current U.S. State Department guidance also tells travelers to print the e-Visa and bring it with the valid passport. Carry the printed document and keep an offline digital copy as backup.

A phone copy is useful redundancy. It should not be treated as a reason to skip the printed visa.

The Airport-Fix Trap

Commercial visa services advertise urgent applications, weekend assistance, emergency corrections, and airport help.

Some travelers do report obtaining last-minute assistance.

But that does not make emergency intervention a dependable travel strategy.

Current U.S. government guidance states that the U.S. Embassy and Consulate cannot change information on a Vietnam e-Visa or speed up an application. It also warns that travelers with erroneous e-Visas may face expensive last-minute visa assistance.

If a problem is discovered at airline check-in, you may need to change the flight, submit another application, wait for another approval, or seek commercial help without knowing whether the intervention will succeed.

Third-party visa services are not automatically fraudulent. Some legitimately assist travelers with applications.

But they are not Vietnam Immigration. Their service fees are separate from government charges, and they cannot guarantee that Vietnam will approve an application.

Vietnam’s current government e-Visa fees are US$25 for single entry and US$50 for multiple entry.

Start with the official Vietnam Immigration e-Visa system rather than assuming the first sponsored search result is a government site. Travelers using outside services are also handing over passport scans, photographs, contact information, and travel details, so it is worth confirming exactly who is receiving that information.

Emergency assistance may exist.

Emergency assistance is not a travel plan.

Current Entry-Process Note — August 2026

Vietnam is also rolling out a digital pre-arrival declaration process for air travelers.

Current government guidance is not completely aligned on how broadly the requirement currently applies.

The U.S. State Department currently says travelers using a non-Vietnamese passport and entering Vietnam by air must complete the pre-arrival declaration no earlier than three days before arrival.

Vietnam Immigration’s own current e-Visa information uses less absolute language and strongly recommends passengers complete the pre-arrival process. Current UK guidance says foreign nationals entering through Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City are encouraged to complete the digital arrival card and that it is not currently mandatory there, while warning that the system may change or expand with limited notice.

Because those descriptions are not fully consistent, this guide does not treat the declaration as a settled universal requirement for every air arrival.

If you are flying to Vietnam, check the current Vietnam Immigration instructions shortly before departure and complete any pre-arrival declaration required for your airport and travel date.

This is a current entry-process update and is separate from the five e-Visa mistakes covered in the video.

Final Vietnam e-Visa Pre-Flight Check

Before you leave for Vietnam, run through the process one last time.

Before Applying

• Use the official Vietnam Immigration e-Visa portal.
• Make sure your passport has enough remaining validity for the trip and the visa period you are requesting.
• Enter your name according to the passport ICAO line.
• Check the passport number one character at a time.
• Confirm your date of birth, nationality, sex, and passport-validity information.
• Choose validity dates that cover the complete itinerary.
• Select single or multiple entry based on whether you will leave Vietnam and return.
• Select the eligible entry and exit checkpoints you genuinely expect to use.
• Make sure the portrait and passport uploads are clear and complete.
• Review everything again before payment.

After Submitting

• Save the registration code.
• Save the payment confirmation.
• Keep the application email.
• Save a copy or screenshot of the information you submitted.
• Monitor the official status page.
• Respond promptly if an amendment is requested.
• Do not assume a submitted application can simply be reopened and freely edited.
• Leave enough processing margin that a correction or delay does not immediately threaten the trip.

After Approval

Put the approved e-Visa beside your passport and compare:

• Full name and name order
• Passport number
• Date of birth
• Nationality
• Visa-valid-from date
• Visa-valid-to date
• Single-entry or multiple-entry status
• Entry and exit information where applicable
• Final itinerary
• Exact passport being carried

Then print the e-Visa and keep an offline digital copy as backup.

Before Leaving for the Airport

Make sure you are carrying:

• The exact passport used for the e-Visa application
• The printed e-Visa
• An offline digital backup
• Your final flight or border itinerary
• Any other current entry documents required for your travel date

If your passport, route, travel dates, or entry arrangements changed after approval, verify the consequences through official sources before departure rather than assuming the original e-Visa still fits the trip.

Official Resources

Use official government sources when checking current Vietnam e-Visa and entry requirements.

• Vietnam Immigration Department — Official e-Visa Portal
  https://evisa.gov.vn/
• Vietnam Immigration Department — e-Visa FAQ
  https://evisa.gov.vn/faq
• Vietnam Immigration Department — e-Visa Instructions
  https://evisa.gov.vn/instruction
• Vietnam Immigration Department — Support
  https://evisa.gov.vn/support
• Vietnam Immigration — Pre-Arrival Declaration
  https://prearrival.immigration.gov.vn/
• U.S. State Department — Vietnam Travel Information
  https://travel.state.gov/en/international-travel/travel-advisories/vietnam.html
• UK Government — Vietnam Entry Requirements
  https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/vietnam/entry-requirements

Commercial visa services may provide application assistance, but they are not Vietnam Immigration and should not replace current government guidance when checking requirements.

Bottom Line

Vietnam’s e-Visa system is manageable when the application, passport, approved visa, and actual trip all line up.

Most of the expensive problems covered in this guide begin with something ordinary: a wrong digit, an incorrect date, a mismatched name, an unexpected amendment, or an approved document that nobody checked closely enough.

So the most useful rule is also the simplest:

Do not treat “approved” as the finish line. Treat it as the document you now have to proofread.

Put the e-Visa beside your passport, compare every field, check it against the final itinerary, and do that while there is still time to solve a problem.

Frequently Asked Questions

Full Transcript

A Vietnam e-visa can be approved and still stop your trip.
In the next few minutes, I’ll show you the mistakes most likely to cause problems, and the exact checks to make before you leave home.
Because if an airline discovers a mismatch at check-in, your remaining options may be changing the flight, paying for uncertain emergency help, or missing the trip altogether.
The good news is that most of these problems are preventable.
But first, you need to understand why seeing the word approved does not mean the visa process is finished.
A Vietnam e-visa passes through several separate checks.
You enter your identity, passport, travel dates, visa type, and itinerary information. Vietnam Immigration reviews the application and, if it is accepted, issues an electronic visa.
Before you board, the airline may compare that visa with your passport and flight itinerary. Vietnamese immigration then performs its own document check when you arrive.
The same information needs to remain consistent through every stage.
Your approved visa must match your passport. Your travel dates must fall inside the approved validity period, and your itinerary must match the entry information you submitted.
An application can be approved even though a name was entered incorrectly, one passport digit is wrong, the dates do not cover the actual trip, or the traveler later replaces the passport used in the application.
The problem may not become obvious until the airline or immigration officer compares the documents.
In other words, the visa can be approved as a document while still being wrong for the traveler standing at the airport.
And one of the easiest ways to create that mismatch is entering your name the way you normally write it.
Passport names do not always fit neatly into the familiar idea of first name, middle name, and last name.
Some travelers have several given names. Others have no conventional surname. Names may be hyphenated, displayed in a different order, or contain characters that do not appear the same way in every booking system.
The current Vietnam e-visa application tells travelers to enter their names according to the passport’s ICAO line.
Those are the machine-readable lines at the bottom of the passport identity page.
So do not rely on how you normally sign your name, how an airline displays it, or how another traveler says they completed the form.
Use the passport you will actually carry, and follow the fields shown by the official application.
Apply that same care to the passport number, nationality, date of birth, sex, and the passport issue and expiration dates.
Travelers have reported reaching airline check-in with an approved visa and encountering problems because a middle name was missing, a surname was entered in the wrong field, or the visa information did not match the passport.
That does not mean every missing space or minor formatting difference automatically causes denied boarding. Enforcement can vary.
But material identity mismatches have caused real disruptions, and there is no benefit in gambling on whether an airline employee or immigration officer will overlook one.
Before you pay, place the passport beside the application. Read the ICAO line, check every digit and date, and make sure the uploaded passport page is clear and complete.
Verify the email address too. A typo there can make the application much harder to retrieve or monitor.
The practical rule is simple.
Do not enter identity information from memory, even when you are certain you know your own passport number.
But perfect identity information will not help if the visa covers the wrong trip.
The application does more than ask when you plan to arrive and leave.
It asks for a visa-valid-from date, a visa-valid-to date, an intended entry date, the expected length of stay, and whether you want a single-entry or multiple-entry visa.
Those choices must fit the actual itinerary.
Suppose your flight lands on August tenth, but the visa begins on August eleventh. The visa may be genuine and officially approved, but it does not cover that arrival.
The same problem occurs when the return flight falls after the visa expires.
Travel plans can also change. A flight may be moved forward, delayed into the next day, or rerouted after a cancellation. None of those changes automatically moves the validity period printed on the visa.
Another mistake is choosing single entry when the itinerary requires leaving Vietnam and returning.
You might visit Vietnam, fly to Cambodia or Thailand for several days, and then come back to Vietnam for the flight home. That second arrival requires a visa that allows another entry.
Do not assume immigration will correct a narrow date request or convert a single-entry application because the itinerary makes your intentions obvious.
Choose a reasonable validity window that covers the real trip and allows some room for normal travel changes, while remaining inside the official maximum period.
Then check the dates that were actually issued.
Do not rely on the dates you remember requesting. The dates printed on the approved visa are the ones that matter.
The same principle applies to your route.
A traveler may reasonably think, “I have a Vietnam visa, so I should be able to enter anywhere Vietnam accepts e-visas.”
That is not the safe planning rule.
The application asks you to choose an intended entry checkpoint and an intended exit checkpoint. The crossing also needs to be one of the airports, land borders, or seaports designated for e-visa use.
Problems arise when travelers choose the wrong airport, confuse similarly named land crossings, change from an airport arrival to an overland route, or rebook through a different Vietnamese airport after approval.
Connecting itineraries can also be confusing. The important location may be the first airport where you clear Vietnamese immigration, not necessarily the final city shown on the ticket.
Some commercial visa services claim that newer e-visas do not always display the selected checkpoint, giving travelers more freedom to change routes.
That is not strong enough evidence to build a trip around.
Current government travel guidance still tells travelers to use the entry and exit locations selected in the application.
Choose the checkpoints you genuinely expect to use. When the itinerary changes after approval, verify the consequences through the official portal or official support.
Do not assume that a field missing from the PDF gives you permission to rewrite the itinerary yourself.
The next mistake may not make the visa incorrect, but it can prevent the correct visa from arriving before the flight.
The official process has described e-visa applications as being processed in three working days.
That can create the impression that applying three days before departure is enough.
But three working days does not mean seventy-two hours.
Weekends do not normally count. Vietnamese public holidays can interrupt processing, and the stated period does not provide extra time for an amendment request, payment problem, rejected upload, or application backlog.
A traveler who submits on Thursday may discover that the weekend consumes most of the remaining time before a Tuesday flight.
If the passport image is cropped, the portrait is rejected, or the application is returned for amendment, the original calculation no longer matters.
Travelers have reported applications remaining in processing close to departure, becoming stuck in repeated amendment requests, or completing payment without immediately finding the information needed to check the application status.
Those reports do not establish an exact average processing time, but they show why the official processing period should not be treated as the amount of time you leave yourself.
A safer planning buffer is at least two weeks before departure during normal periods, with additional time around major Vietnamese holidays.
That is not an official guarantee. It is practical risk management.
Save the registration code, payment confirmation, application email, and a copy of the information you submitted. Monitor the official status page and respond immediately if the application is returned for amendment.
Most importantly, do not consider the process complete until you have downloaded the approved visa and inspected it.
And that leads to the most preventable mistake of all.
The approval arrives.
You see the word approved, feel relieved, save the PDF to your phone, and stop thinking about the visa.
That is exactly when the final inspection should begin.
Place the approved visa beside your passport and compare them carefully.
Check the complete name and name order. Check the passport number one character at a time. Confirm the date of birth and nationality, then inspect the visa-valid-from date, visa-valid-to date, and whether the document allows single or multiple entry.
Review the entry and exit information when it is displayed, and compare the visa with the final flight or border itinerary.
Then confirm that the passport in your hand is the same one used in the application.
An e-visa is tied to that passport information.
If the passport was renewed, replaced after damage, reported lost, or exchanged for another passport held by a dual national, do not assume the visa automatically transfers to the new document.
A known material error is much easier to address at home than at airline check-in.
The official process also directs travelers to print the e-visa.
Some travelers report using a phone PDF without trouble, but relying on a phone alone is unnecessary risk. Airline staff or immigration officers may ask for a hard copy, and a phone can be lost, damaged, out of power, or unable to load the file.
Carry a printed copy, keep the PDF available offline, and bring the exact passport used for the application.
Approval is not the moment to stop paying attention.
It is the moment to begin the final inspection.
Commercial visa services sometimes advertise urgent processing, weekend assistance, emergency corrections, or airport visa help.
Some travelers may obtain expensive last-minute assistance.
But the official tourist e-visa system does not provide a dependable, guaranteed airport correction process that you should build into your trip.
When a problem is discovered at check-in, the airline may refuse boarding. You may need to change the flight, submit another application, wait for a new approval, or pay a third party without knowing whether the intervention will succeed.
That urgency also makes travelers vulnerable to unofficial websites.
Start from the official Vietnamese government e-visa portal at evisa dot gov dot vn.
Do not assume that the first sponsored search result is the government website.
As of July twenty twenty-six, the official application fee is twenty-five U.S. dollars for a single-entry visa and fifty U.S. dollars for a multiple-entry visa.
A commercial company may add its own service fee, but it does not issue the visa and cannot guarantee approval by Vietnam Immigration.
Remember that you are also handing over a passport scan, portrait, contact information, travel plans, and other sensitive personal data.
Do not send that information casually to a website simply because it uses official-looking colors, flags, or government language.
Emergency help may exist.
But emergency help is not a travel plan.
Before paying, use the official portal and copy your identity information directly from the passport’s ICAO line.
Check the passport number digit by digit. Choose dates and an entry type that cover the real itinerary, and select the actual eligible checkpoints you expect to use.
Make sure the portrait and passport uploads are clear, complete, and meet the requirements shown by the official portal.
After submitting, save the registration code and payment information. Monitor the application, allow for weekends and holidays, and respond quickly to any amendment request.
After approval, compare every field on the visa with your passport and itinerary.
Print the document, retain a digital backup, and carry the exact passport used for the application.
Vietnam’s e-visa process is manageable.
The danger is not usually a hidden legal trap.
It is an ordinary data, timing, or itinerary mistake becoming expensive because nobody catches it until the traveler reaches the airport.
So here is the final lever.
Do not treat approved as the finish line. Treat it as the document you now have to proofread.
Put the visa beside your passport, compare every field, and do that check while there is still time to solve a problem.
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Video Chapters

00:26 How an approved e-Visa can still fail

01:34 Mistake 1: Passport and name mismatches

03:22 Mistake 2: Visa dates that don’t cover your trip

04:51 Mistake 3: Wrong entry or exit checkpoint

06:09 Mistake 4: Treating 3 working days as enough

07:51 Mistake 5: Treating approval as the finish line

09:22 The airport-fix trap

10:43 Final checklist and takeaway

Disclaimer

This guide is for general informational purposes only and is not legal or immigration advice. Visa, passport, airline, and entry requirements can change without notice.

Always verify the current requirements for your passport, itinerary, travel dates, and points of entry directly with Vietnam Immigration and other relevant official authorities before travel.

Airlines, immigration authorities, and border officials make the final operational and admission decisions. Nothing in this guide guarantees visa approval, boarding, entry into Vietnam, or acceptance of a particular document or itinerary.