Multiple Cambodia eVisa Applications for the Same Trip: 2026 Family & Group Guide for Australians

Couple-plus-friends, group of six: who applies for whom?

The second-most-common Aussie group is the couples trip — three couples, six adults, usually a Sihanoukville beach week or a Phnom Penh long weekend. Unlike a family, the group doesn't share an address, an inbox or a credit card. The clean way to handle six applications is to pick one trip organiser — usually the friend who booked the flights — and have them apply for all six on a single laptop, with each person sending across their passport scan and photo over WhatsApp or email beforehand.

One inbox, one card — split the cost later

If one person fronts the whole $480 USD (~$732 AUD) on their card and the group settles up afterwards via PayID, every approval PDF lands in that organiser's inbox in a tidy bundle. That is the easiest path. The alternative — six people each applying on six devices with six cards — works fine but means six inboxes to chase if anything goes wrong. The one-organiser route is faster, tidier and less prone to a friend's PDF getting lost in their work inbox.

What each friend sends across before applying

Before the organiser sits down to apply, each friend sends through three things: a clean scan or photo of their passport bio page (the photo page, not the back cover), a white-background photo that meets the eVisa photo spec, and their full name and date of birth as a sanity check against the passport. The Cambodia eVisa photo requirements guide is the spec to share with the group — most photo bouncebacks come from a friend who sent a holiday selfie with a beach behind them. The passport bio-scan guide covers what a clean bio page looks like; phone photos in daylight on a dark surface are fine.

Business team of eight: the Cambodia eVisa Business path

Larger Aussie groups travelling for work — supplier visits, factory due-diligence trips, regional sales calls, conferences, sponsored events, longer engagements — usually apply on the Cambodia Business eVisa rather than the Tourist eVisa. The Business path is $90 USD (~$137 AUD) each instead of $80 USD (~$122 AUD), with the same 3-business-day processing and the same printable PDF delivery by email. The reason for the upgrade isn't price — it's that the Business eVisa is the right document for paid meetings, supplier visits, due-diligence work, conferences, sales calls and sponsored events, and it sets up cleaner downstream extension options if anyone needs to stay longer than 30 days.

One travel coordinator, eight applications

In a corporate setting, the EA or travel coordinator usually handles the whole batch. Eight applications in one browser session takes roughly ninety minutes of active work, plus another fifteen to chase down anyone whose passport scan or photo isn't quite right. The autofill convenience of one session — same Australian office address, same arrival flight details, same Phnom Penh or Siem Reap hotel — is significant on a team of eight. Use the company corporate card for the lot. The Cambodia business visa for Australians guide covers what the Business eVisa actually permits, including the meeting and supplier-visit framing the team should put on the application.

Tracking eight application IDs without losing track

Each Cambodia eVisa application generates its own application ID at submission and again on the approval PDF. For a team of eight, build a quick tracker in a spreadsheet at the time of applying: column A name, column B passport number, column C application ID, column D status (Submitted/Approved/Printed), column E PDF location on the shared drive. It sounds over-engineered for a small team, but it saves a phone call from a team member three days before flight asking whether their eVisa has come through. Save every PDF to the same shared folder with the filename pattern "<Surname>_<FirstName>_Cambodia_eVisa.pdf" and the team can self-serve.

Payment mechanics and tracking multiple application IDs

Whatever the group size, the payment mechanics are the same: each application is its own checkout. There is no shared cart, no bundled invoice and no group discount. If you are paying for four family applications on one Aussie Visa card, the card sees four separate charges of $80 USD (~$122 AUD) — not a single $320 USD (~$488 AUD) line. This matters for two reasons. First, your bank may flag the third or fourth identical charge as suspicious; second, your statement is easier to reconcile if you know what to expect.

Aussie cards: tell your bank before you submit four in a row

Some Australian banks — particularly Commbank, NAB and Westpac — flag the third or fourth identical USD charge in quick succession as potential fraud and decline the rest. If you are submitting four family applications back-to-back, send a quick travel notice through your banking app first, or call your card issuer to whitelist multiple Cambodian visa charges in the next thirty minutes. The Cambodia eVisa card decline fixes guide covers the specific patterns Aussie banks pull and the fastest way to clear them. Apple Pay and PayPal are slightly less prone to multi-charge declines because they tokenise each transaction differently.

Multiple application IDs land as separate emails

Each submission generates its own application ID and its own confirmation email. For a family of four, expect four confirmation emails in a row when you submit, and four approval emails inside 3 business days. The approval PDFs are delivered as printable PDFs by email — one per traveller, each with its own QR code Cambodian Immigration scans at KTI, SAI or KOS. Save every PDF to the same Documents folder; print two A4 colour copies per traveller; do not just rely on the email attachment. The Cambodia processing time guide covers what to do if one application lands after the others, which occasionally happens.

The e-Arrival Card: still one per traveller, no group shortcut

Once every eVisa is approved and printed, the second piece of paperwork kicks in: the Cambodia e-Arrival Card. This is the 14-field digital arrival form every passenger must submit within the 7-day window before their flight lands. It is completely separate from the eVisa, with its own form, its own QR code on completion, and — like the eVisa — one submission per traveller. There is no family e-Arrival and no group submission.

One organiser can fill them all, with each passport in hand

What you can do — and what most Aussie family and group organisers do — is sit with all the passports in front of you and fill every traveller's e-Arrival in one sitting. Each one is fourteen fields: passport details, flight number, arrival airport, Cambodian address, return flight date, and the standard health and customs declarations. The Cambodia e-Arrival for couples and families guide is the multi-person playbook for the e-Arrival specifically. Plan roughly five minutes per traveller; a family of four takes about twenty minutes, a team of eight about forty.

Our verified e-Arrival service is $5 USD (~$7.50 AUD) per traveller, checked end-to-end before it reaches Cambodian Immigration. For a family of four that is $20 USD (~$30 AUD); for a team of eight, $40 USD (~$60 AUD). The catch the verified path solves is small format slips — date-of-birth in the wrong order, flight number capitalisation, hotel address line breaks — which the kiosk at KTI rejects silently and re-queues you for. Free resubmission if Immigration flags a correction sits behind every one of them.

Edge cases: dropouts, late additions, single rejections in a group

Multi-applicant submissions occasionally hit edge cases a single-applicant submission never sees. Plan for two or three of these and the trip rolls; ignore them and you might lose someone at the boarding gate. The good news is that the recovery paths are all the same as for a single applicant — refunds where applicable, free resubmission if Immigration flags a correction, fresh applications where required.

One traveller drops out before flight

If a family member or team member cancels after the eVisa is issued, the $80 USD (~$122 AUD) is unfortunately non-refundable once approved — Cambodian Immigration has already issued the document. The refund and cancellation guide covers the narrow set of cases where a refund is possible (mostly pre-approval cancellations within an hour or two of submission). For everyone else's trip, nothing changes: the remaining travellers still fly on their own approved eVisas.

Late addition: a friend joins the trip two weeks out

Adding a late traveller is straightforward — same $80 USD (~$122 AUD) tourist application, same 3-business-day processing, lodged separately under their own passport and own email or under the group organiser's inbox if you prefer. They don't need to be added to anyone else's application because no application has multiple travellers on it. Apply as soon as the trip is confirmed; the only risk is leaving it too close to flight and running into the 3-business-day window.

One application gets flagged for correction

If one person's application — say, the seven-year-old's photo, which is genuinely the hardest one to get right — is flagged for a correction by Immigration, the rest of the family or group is unaffected. We resubmit the flagged application free of charge once the corrected document is supplied, and the others continue through to approval on the normal three-day timeline. The Cambodia eVisa resubmission guide covers what triggers a flag and how the resubmission works.

Next steps and related reading for Australians: apply for your Cambodia eVisa when you are ready to lodge, bookmark our Cambodia visa hub for Australian citizens as the single canonical reference, skim the FAQ on Cambodia visa after approval for quick answers, and use our glossary of Cambodia visa terms to decode any acronym in this guide.