Cambodia e-Arrival Card: Wie US-Bürger sie vor der Ankunft ausfüllen

Section 1 — your identity (5 fields)

The first section is who you are, copied straight off your passport bio page. Five fields, and the watchword for every one of them is "exactly as printed." This is the section that has to match your eVisa, and matching is what gets you through the kiosk in seconds rather than minutes.

Full name: type it exactly as it appears on your US passport, including any middle name printed there. If your passport reads "Jonathan" and you go by "Jon," enter "Jonathan." Do not drop a middle name, do not abbreviate, do not reorder. The system is matching your name against your eVisa and the passport you will present, and a mismatch is what slows the kiosk down. Passport number: copy it digit by digit and double-check it — a single transposed character is the most common identity-field error. Nationality: United States. Date of birth: covered in the next section's date-format warning, because the same trap applies here. Sex: as shown on your passport.

Section 2 — your flight and stay (4 fields)

The second section is how you are arriving and where you are headed. This is the part Cambodian Immigration cross-checks against the airline manifest, so it has to be right — and it is where the two classic American mistakes live.

Inbound flight number: enter the final leg that actually lands in Cambodia, not your US departure flight. If you fly Los Angeles to Seoul to Phnom Penh, the flight number on the card is the Seoul-to-Phnom-Penh leg, not the LAX-to-Seoul one. Americans almost always connect through Bangkok, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, or Doha, so the flight that matters is the short final hop, not the long-haul out of the States. Arrival date: the day you land in Cambodia, in the local layout — read the next section before you type it. Port of entry: the airport you land at, picked from a list. Address in Cambodia: a hotel name and city is enough; no booking reference, no confirmation PDF, no nights-paid evidence.

On the port of entry, Americans reach Cambodia at one of three airports in 2026: Techo International (KTI) near Phnom Penh, Siem Reap-Angkor (SAI), or Sihanouk (KOS). Pick the one your final leg actually lands at. If you booked before September 2025 you may still see the old Phnom Penh airport code in your head — the new Techo International (KTI) replaced it, so your ticket and the card should both point at where you are genuinely arriving.

The date format that flags US travelers — and the customs questions

Here is the field that catches more Americans than every other slip combined: the date. The form uses a day-month-year layout in places, and US travelers default to month-day-year out of pure habit. Enter 06/07 thinking July 6th when the system reads it as June 7th, and your arrival date is suddenly a month off. That mismatch against the manifest is the single most common reason a US-filed card gets flagged at the kiosk, and it is a five-second mistake that costs you a trip back to the queue.

The fix is mechanical: read the field label and the on-screen format hint before you type, and where you have any doubt, select the day, month, and year from the picker rather than free-typing the slashes. Then sanity-check the result against your flight confirmation. The same care applies to your date of birth in Section 1 — same layout, same habit, same easy slip. If the screen shows your arrival as a different day than your ticket, you have hit the trap; fix it before you submit.

The third section is the customs and health declaration — a short set of yes/no questions about currency over the declarable threshold, restricted or prohibited goods, and anything to declare. For the typical American tourist or business traveler the honest answer to all of them is no, and that is completely fine. These are the same questions that used to be on the paper card; nothing here is a trick, it simply has to be answered truthfully. Answer honestly, and if you genuinely are carrying something declarable, declare it — the card is not the place to round down.

Once all 14 fields are in and checked, you submit, and the system returns a confirmation with a QR code. Save it offline — screenshot it, and ideally print it too — so you are not depending on airport Wi-Fi or a dead battery when you reach the arrivals kiosk. That QR code is what the officer scans to pull your declaration.

Getting it right the first time — and where it sits next to your eVisa

Run a 30-second review before you submit. Name matches the passport exactly, including the middle name. Passport number has no transposed digits. Flight number is the final leg into Cambodia, not the US departure. Arrival date reads correctly in day-month-year and matches your ticket. Port of entry is the airport you actually land at. Customs answers are honest. Six checks, and they catch every mistake that sends US travelers back to the kiosk queue.