Do Children Need a Cambodia Visa? A US Family Travel Guide
Yes — children need a Cambodia visa, every one of them. Babies, toddlers, teenagers: there is no age exemption and no family application. Each US child gets their own eVisa under their own passport. Here is exactly how American parents do it.
Do children need a Cambodia visa if they are US citizens?
Yes. Every child needs their own Cambodia eVisa, no matter how young — newborns, infants, toddlers, and teenagers all count. Cambodia has no minimum age for the visa requirement and no family or group application, so each child applies on their own US passport for their own eVisa. The fee is the same as an adult: $80 USD per person for the Tourist eVisa, approved in 3 business days and delivered as a printable PDF by email. There is no family discount. A family of four means four separate eVisa applications, each tied to one child or adult passport.
Points clés à retenir
- Every child needs their own Cambodia eVisa — newborns, babies, toddlers, and teenagers included. There is no minimum age and no infant exemption.
- Each child needs their own US passport first. There is no shared family passport and no way to add a child to a parent record for international travel.
- There is no family discount: the Tourist eVisa is $80 USD per person, so a family of four is four separate $80 USD applications.
- Children get the same eVisa as adults — valid 3 months from issue, 30-day single-entry stay, approved in 3 business days, delivered as a printable PDF by email.
- The Cambodia e-Arrival Card is separate and applies to every air arrival, children included: $5 USD verified through us, 14 fields, submitted within 7 days before you fly.
The short answer for US families
Yes, children need a Cambodia visa — all of them. This is the question American parents ask first when they start planning a family trip to Angkor Wat or the Phnom Penh riverfront, usually hoping that a baby or a young child will be waved through on a parent passport. Cambodia does not work that way. The visa requirement applies from birth. A six-day-old infant traveling with two parents needs the same approved eVisa as the adults sitting beside them on the plane.
The good news is that the application for a child is not harder than for an adult — it is the same short form, the same five-item document set, and the same 3-business-day approval. The two things that surprise US families are that each child needs their own passport before you can even start, and that there is no family rate: the per-person fee is identical whether the applicant is 47 or 7 months old.
This guide covers the age rule, why there is no exemption for babies, how the per-child passport and eVisa work, what a family of four actually pays, the photo and consent details that trip up parents, and the e-Arrival step that applies to every child on an air arrival. When you are ready you can apply for each family member, and our guide on whether US citizens need a visa for Cambodia covers the adult side of the same trip.
There is no age exemption — not even for newborns
Plenty of countries waive the visa fee, or the visa requirement entirely, for children under a certain age. Cambodia is not one of them. There is no minimum age, no infant exemption, and no "children travel free on a parent visa" clause anywhere in the rules. If your child is a foreign national entering Cambodia — and a US citizen child is exactly that — they need their own eVisa, regardless of whether they are six days old or sixteen years old.
This catches families out because it is the opposite of how children are often treated on flights and at hotels. An infant who flies on a parent lap and sleeps in a cot at no extra charge still needs a full-price, full-process Cambodia eVisa in their own name. The airline lap-infant fare and the immigration visa requirement are two completely separate systems. Cambodian Immigration cares only that every person crossing the border holds a valid travel document and a valid visa, and a baby is a person crossing the border.
There is also no shortcut at the airport for kids. Children cannot be added to a parent eVisa, cannot share an approval PDF, and are not exempt from the entry stamp. Each child is processed at Immigration as an individual arrival with their own passport and their own visa, exactly like an adult. The full picture of what every traveler in your group needs is the same five-item document set that applies to each child.
Every child needs their own US passport first
Before a child can have a Cambodia eVisa, they must have a US passport, and it must be their own. The United States has not allowed children to travel internationally on a parent passport for decades — every US citizen, from a newborn upward, needs an individual passport book to fly abroad. If your child does not have one yet, that is the first thing to sort, well before you think about the visa.
Foire aux questions
Do babies and infants need a Cambodia visa?
Yes. There is no minimum age and no infant exemption for the Cambodia eVisa. A newborn or infant traveling with parents needs their own eVisa under their own US passport, at the same $80 USD Tourist fee as an adult. The lap-infant airline fare and the visa requirement are completely separate — a baby who flies free still needs a full-price, full-process eVisa in their own name.
Is there a family or group Cambodia visa application?
No. Cambodia has no family or group application. Each traveler, child or adult, applies on their own passport for their own eVisa and receives their own approval PDF. You can complete several applications in one sitting from the same device and pay with the same card, but they are submitted as separate forms — one per passport.
Is the Cambodia visa cheaper for children?
No. There is no child rate, infant discount, or family bundle. The Tourist eVisa is $80 USD per person regardless of age. A family of four is four separate $80 USD applications, which comes to $320 USD total. Budget the visa as a flat per-person line item for everyone traveling, newborns included.
Can a child travel on a parent passport or be added to a parent eVisa?
No to both. The United States has not allowed children to travel internationally on a parent passport for decades — every child needs their own US passport book. They also cannot be added to a parent eVisa or share an approval; each child needs their own eVisa tied to their own passport number, and is processed individually at Cambodian Immigration.
How do I take a Cambodia visa photo for a baby?
Use the same specs as an adult: plain white or off-white background, face fully visible, head centered, eyes open, neutral expression, no pacifier or toy in frame, and no parent hand visible. The easiest method for an infant is to lay the baby on their back on a plain white sheet and shoot straight down from above with daylight from a side window. Take many shots and pick the one with open eyes and a calm expression.
Les enfants ont-ils besoin de leur propre carte d'arrivée électronique ?
Yes. The Cambodia e-Arrival Card applies to every air arrival, children and babies included. A parent fills in one record per child within 7 days before you fly, and each record must match that child eVisa and passport exactly — same name, passport number, and date of birth. A mismatched child record is a common reason families get held up at the arrival kiosk.
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