Cambodia Visa Fees: No Hidden Costs for US Travelers

What the all-in price already includes

A flat price is only fair if it actually covers what you need, and this one does. Rather than charging a thin base fee and then billing you for each thing that should have been included, the all-in total bundles the whole job. Here is exactly what your $80 USD Tourist or $90 USD Business eVisa already pays for.

• Approval in 3 business days. There is no slower free tier and no faster paid tier — every application runs on the same 3-business-day clock, included in the price you pay.
• Delivery as a printable PDF by email. Your approved eVisa arrives ready to print, with no extra "document delivery" or "PDF" charge tacked on.
• Free resubmission if Immigration flags a correction. If something needs fixing, you resubmit at no additional cost — there is no second fee to get it right.
• US-timezone support. You can reach a person during US hours if a question comes up, with no premium-support upgrade to pay for.
• The full eVisa itself — checked end-to-end before it reaches Cambodian Immigration, so the file that arrives at the border is clean.

The one charge that is never ours to add

There is exactly one line that can ever appear on top of the eVisa price, and it is not ours. It is your own US card issuer's foreign transaction fee. Because the payment is processed outside the United States, some US cards apply their standard foreign transaction fee — typically about 3% — even though the charge is already in dollars. On an $80 USD Tourist eVisa that is roughly $2.40; on a $90 USD Business eVisa, roughly $2.70.

The reason this matters to a no-hidden-fees promise is that it is not hidden and it is not ours. We do not add it, we do not receive it, and we cannot switch it off — it is written into your cardholder agreement and charged by your bank. A card with no foreign transaction fee pays exactly the USD price and nothing more. So the fee is real, it is predictable, and it is entirely under your control: it depends only on which card you use.

How to spot a checkout that hides fees

Auditing other visa checkout pages is literally my job, so here is the practical version. The way a site hides fees is almost always the same handful of tricks, and once you can name them you can read any visa checkout in under a minute and know whether the headline price is real.

The first tell is a price that only appears in full on the final screen. If you cannot see the complete, all-in total before you enter your card details, assume the number will grow. The second is a line item with a vague name — "service fee," "handling fee," "verification fee," "convenience fee" — added separately from the base price. One of those by itself is not damning, but several stacked together are how a $40 headline becomes a $120 charge. The third is a pre-ticked express or priority upgrade you have to actively uncheck, framed so the slower option feels risky.

The e-Arrival Card and what happens if you are not approved

There is one genuinely separate cost, and it is not hidden either — it is just a different document. The e-Arrival Card is the mandatory declaration every air arrival files, and it is $5 USD verified through us. It is 14 fields, filed within 7 days before you fly, and it is separate from the eVisa because it is a separate Cambodian requirement, not an add-on to the visa price. We name it plainly so it never reads as a surprise charge buried in the visa total.

The other question Americans ask under the "hidden fees" heading is what happens to their money if the application does not go through. The answer is that the all-in price includes free resubmission if Cambodian Immigration flags a correction, so a fixable issue does not cost you a second fee — you correct and resubmit at no extra charge. That is the opposite of a hidden cost: it is a cost we have already absorbed into the flat price so a small mistake never turns into a second payment.

The bottom line on fees

Put plainly: the Cambodia eVisa for Americans is $80 USD for the Tourist eVisa and $90 USD for the Business eVisa, billed in dollars, approved in 3 business days, and delivered as a printable PDF by email. That single number already includes free resubmission and US-timezone support. There is no processing fee added at the end, no per-page surcharge, and no express upsell — the price you approve is the price you pay.

The only line that can ever appear on top is your own US bank's foreign transaction fee, which a no-fee card removes entirely. The only genuinely separate cost is the $5 USD e-Arrival Card, named up front, never buried. Everything else you might fear from a visa checkout — the stacked fees, the surprise totals, the pre-ticked upgrades — is exactly what a flat all-in price is built to avoid.