Benötigen Sie eine Kambodscha e-Arrival Card? Was amerikanische Flugreisende einreichen müssen

What the e-Arrival Card actually asks: the 14 fields

The e-Arrival Card is 14 fields, and that is the whole thing. It is short enough that the temptation is to rush it — which is exactly where the avoidable slips happen. The fields break into three sections: who you are, how you are arriving, and what you are bringing in.

Section 1 — Your identity

Your full name exactly as printed on your US passport, your passport number, your nationality, your date of birth, and your sex. The watchword here is "exactly as printed." If your passport reads your name one way and you type it another — a dropped middle name, a maiden name, a typo in the passport number — the card can fail to match your eVisa, and matching is what gets you through the kiosk quickly.

Section 2 — Your flight and stay

Your inbound flight number, your date of arrival, the port you are arriving at, and the address where you will stay in Cambodia. A hotel name and city is enough for the address — you do not need a booking reference or a confirmation PDF. The flight number and arrival date have to be right, because this is the part Immigration cross-checks against the manifest. Americans connecting through Bangkok, Singapore, or Seoul should enter the final leg into Cambodia, not their US departure flight.

Section 3 — Customs declaration

A short set of yes/no customs and health questions — whether you are carrying currency over the declarable threshold, restricted goods, and so on. For the typical US tourist or business traveler the honest answer to all of them is no, and that is fine. These are the same questions that used to be on the paper card; nothing here is a trap, it just has to be answered truthfully.

When to file it: the 7-day window that catches people out

The e-Arrival Card has a timing rule that is the mirror image of the eVisa, and getting it backward is the most common scheduling mistake Americans make. You file the e-Arrival Card within the 7 days before you arrive — not months ahead, the way you do the visa. File it too early and the system will not accept it yet.

So the natural rhythm of a US trip looks like this: apply for your eVisa weeks ahead, let it land in your inbox as a PDF, and forget about it. Then, in the week before you fly, file the e-Arrival Card. A good anchor is to do it the same day you check in online for your flight, or the day before you leave — by then your flight details are locked, which means you can enter them correctly the first time.

The reason the window matters is that the card is tied to a specific arrival. Cambodian Immigration wants a current declaration for the flight you are actually on, with the flight number and date that match the manifest. A card filed three months out against a flight you had not booked yet is useless to them. Seven days out, your plans are real, and the data holds.

For Americans, the practical trap is the date. The form uses a day-month-year layout in places, and US travelers default to month-day-year. Enter 06/07 thinking July 6th when the system reads June 7th, and your arrival date is suddenly a month off — which is the single most common reason a US-filed card gets flagged at the kiosk. It is a five-second mistake that costs you a trip back to the queue.

How Americans get both sorted without a kiosk surprise

Second, in the week before you fly, file the e-Arrival Card. When you file a verified card through us for $5 USD, it is checked end-to-end before it reaches Cambodian Immigration — name spelling against your passport, flight number against your final leg, and the date format that catches so many Americans out. The single date-format slip that sends travelers back to the queue is exactly the kind of thing that check is built to catch.