The Cambodia Tourist Visa (Type-T) is the eVisa nearly every American traveler uses: a 30-day single-entry stay, valid 3 months from issue, $80 USD all-in, approved in 3 business days. Here is exactly what it covers — and what it does not.

The Cambodia Tourist Visa (Type-T) is the standard tourist eVisa for US citizens. It grants a single-entry stay of 30 days, is valid for 3 months from the issue date, and covers leisure travel — sightseeing at Angkor Wat, beach time in Sihanoukville, and visiting family or friends. It is $80 USD all-in, approved in 3 business days, and delivered as a printable PDF by email. It does not cover paid work or long-term residence, and the tourist auto-extension ended in November 2025, so a Type-T no longer rolls into a low-cost renewal — once your 30 days are up, you leave or re-apply.
If you are an American flying to Cambodia for a vacation, the Tourist Visa — labeled "Type-T" on the eVisa system — is almost certainly the one you want. It is the default tourist eVisa: a single-entry stay of 30 days, valid for 3 months from the day it is issued, built for sightseeing, beach trips, temple runs, and visiting people. Roughly nine out of ten US applicants we process use the Type-T, and most of them never need anything more.
The "Type-T" label trips up a lot of US travelers because it does not appear on older guidance that just says "tourist visa." Cambodia's eVisa system tags every approval with a class code — T for tourist, E for business (sometimes called "ordinary") — and that code prints on the PDF you carry to the airport. When you apply through us, the Type-T is simply what you select when you tell us the trip is for leisure. There is no separate form and no extra step; the class is decided by why you are going.
This guide covers exactly what the Type-T does and does not allow, the 30-day stay versus the 3-month validity window that so many Americans confuse, the single-entry rule, and what changed when the tourist auto-extension ended in November 2025. If you are still deciding between the tourist and business class, our breakdown of the Cambodia tourist visa vs business visa for Americans settles it in a couple of minutes. When you are ready, you can apply and have your eVisa approved in 3 business days.
The Type-T is a leisure visa, and Cambodian Immigration reads "leisure" broadly. It covers the full range of why most Americans go: temples, beaches, river towns, and people.
What the Type-T does not cover is paid work, employment, or running a business on the ground. If you are flying to Phnom Penh for meetings, a conference, a supplier visit, an NGO posting, or anything where you are working rather than traveling, that is the business class (Type-E), and it is the one that can be extended inside the country. The tourist class cannot. Picking the wrong one is the single most common avoidable mistake we see from US applicants, because the fix usually means re-applying.
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The Cambodia e-Arrival Card is a separate step from your eVisa, and a small one — $5 USD verified through us, 14 fields, filed within 7 days before you fly. Here is exactly what that fee covers, why it is not bundled into your visa price, and the timing that keeps you moving at the gate.
The Cambodia e-Arrival Card is 14 fields across three sections, filed within 7 days before you land. Here is exactly what each field wants, in the order the form asks for it, plus the date-format slip that flags US travelers at the kiosk.
The Cambodia e-Arrival Card asks for 14 pieces of information across three sections — your identity, your flight and stay, and a short customs declaration. Here is exactly what each field wants and the four things to have in front of you before you start.
The line between the two is purpose, not job title. A salaried American on vacation uses the Type-T. The same person flying in for three days of client meetings uses the Type-E. If your trip is genuinely both — a conference followed by a week at the beach — the business class covers you for the whole thing, and our which Cambodia visa do US citizens need decision guide walks you through the edge cases so you only apply once.

This is where most Americans get tangled, so read it twice. The Type-T has two separate clocks, and they measure different things.
The validity is 3 months from the issue date. That is your window to enter Cambodia — the latest day you can land and have the visa accepted at the gate. If your eVisa is issued on June 1, you must arrive in Cambodia on or before roughly September 1. It does not mean you can stay for three months. It means you have a three-month window in which to start your single 30-day stay.
The stay is 30 days from the day you actually enter. The clock starts at the immigration counter when your passport is stamped, not when the visa is issued and not when you booked the flight. Land on August 15 and your 30 days run from August 15 — you can stay until roughly September 14, even though the visa was issued back on June 1. The validity window and the stay are independent: you can use any part of the three months to begin, and then you get a full 30 days on the ground.
Practical upshot for US planners: apply when your dates are firm, not months early "to be safe." Because validity counts from issue, applying too early can mean the visa expires before a delayed trip. Our 3-business-day approval is fast enough that there is no reason to apply more than a few weeks out. Get the dates locked, then apply.

The Type-T is single entry. That word does a lot of work, and it catches out Americans who plan a multi-country loop. Single entry means the visa is good for exactly one crossing into Cambodia. The moment you exit — by air, or in theory by land — the visa is used up, even if you have unused days left on the 30-day clock.
The classic trap is the regional hop. Say you fly into Phnom Penh, spend a week, then plan to nip over to Vietnam or Laos and come back to Cambodia to fly home from Siem Reap. The first exit ends your Type-T. Re-entering Cambodia for that final leg needs a brand-new eVisa, applied for and approved before you cross back. If you know your itinerary loops back through Cambodia, plan for two separate tourist eVisas, or look at whether the business class fits your purpose.
A 2026 detail that changes this math for US travelers: all seven Thailand–Cambodia land borders have been closed since June 2025, so the old overland Bangkok-to-Siem Reap hop is not an option this year regardless of your visa. Plan to fly into Cambodia. Most Americans now arrive through Techo International Airport (KTI) in Phnom Penh, which replaced the old airport in September 2025, or through Siem Reap-Angkor. If you are still mapping the trip, our guide to how long US citizens can stay in Cambodia covers the stay limits and re-entry rules in detail.

Classic pairing for Americans — but all 7 land borders to Cambodia are closed in 2026.
Read the 2026 update →The other half of the Indochina loop. Phu Quoc is visa-free for 45 days.
See the combo →The quiet third stop on the Mekong loop most Americans skip.
Plan the Laos leg →Where a lot of US itineraries connect on the way through.
Sort the stopover →Kuala Lumpur is a common connection into Phnom Penh for Americans.
Check the route →For years the Cambodia tourist visa had a quiet escape hatch: it could be extended once, inexpensively, for another 30 days without much friction. American travelers leaned on it constantly — a beach week ran long, plans shifted, and the extension absorbed it. That ended in November 2025. The tourist auto-extension is no longer available.
In practical terms, the Type-T is now a hard 30 days. When your 30-day stay is up, you leave Cambodia. There is no longer a low-friction tourist renewal to lean on, and overstaying carries a daily fine at the airport on the way out, plus the risk of complications on a future entry. If you genuinely need longer than 30 days in Cambodia, the move is to apply for the business class (Type-E) before you travel — that is the only Cambodia visa that can still be extended from inside the country.
This is the change that catches returning American visitors off guard most often: they remember the easy extension from a trip in 2023 or 2024 and assume it still works. It does not. If your 2026 plan needs more than a month, decide that before you apply, because converting a Type-T to a longer stay after you land is not a path that exists anymore. Our step-by-step guide to applying for the Cambodia eVisa online for Americans shows where you choose the class so you start on the right one.

Getting the Type-T is the lightest visa application in the region. There is no embassy visit anywhere in the United States, no interview, and no document dump. You need a US passport with at least 6 months validity, a passport-style photo, a scan of your passport bio page, an email address, and a payment method. The Cambodia Tourist eVisa is $80 USD all-in, approved in 3 business days, and delivered as a printable PDF by email — our tourist eVisa price breakdown for US citizens shows exactly what the all-in figure includes.
What you do not need is the pile most Americans brace for. No return flight ticket, no hotel booking, no bank statement, no itinerary, no travel insurance proof. Cambodia treats the paid visa fee itself as your commitment and collects the bigger arrival details separately. Print the approved PDF, or keep a clear copy on your phone, and carry it to the airport — the airline checks it before you board, and Immigration checks it again on arrival.
One reminder that sits alongside the Type-T and trips up a lot of US air travelers: the Cambodia e-Arrival Card is a separate, mandatory step for every air arrival. It is not part of the visa. It is a short online form — 14 fields — that you submit within the 7 days before you fly. The visa says you may enter Cambodia; the e-Arrival Card is the arrival declaration the kiosk wants to see. File both, and the gate is a formality.
Next steps and related reading for Americans: apply for your Cambodia Tourist eVisa when your dates are firm, compare the Cambodia tourist visa vs business visa for US citizens if you are not certain the leisure class fits, and bookmark our Cambodia visa hub for United States citizens as the single reference for cost, documents, and processing.