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How the e-Arrival fee sits next to your visa cost

These are two separate line items, paid at two separate times, and it helps to see them side by side. Your visa fee is the big one and you pay it once when you apply. Your e-Arrival fee is the small one and you pay it once in the week before you fly. Neither replaces the other, and skipping the e-Arrival because you already paid for the visa is the misunderstanding that gets American travelers pulled aside at the gate.

So a solo American tourist flying in pays $80 USD for the Tourist eVisa and $5 USD for the verified e-Arrival Card — two transactions, separated by however long sits between when you apply online and when you fly. A business traveler pays $90 USD plus the same $5 USD. There is no rush tier on either one, no airport surcharge, and no add-on you have to opt out of. If you want the visa side broken down on its own, our guide on what the Cambodia visa costs for Americans covers the eVisa price in full, and our breakdown of the e-Arrival payment and fee for Americans walks through how that $5 transaction is handled.

One thing worth saying plainly: the e-Arrival Card is not optional and it is not bundled into your visa, so do not budget for the visa and then get surprised at the gate. Every air arrival into Cambodia in 2026 files one. Plan for both fees from the start and the whole entry is frictionless.

When you pay — the 7-day window that trips people up

Timing is where the e-Arrival Card differs most sharply from the visa, and where the most avoidable mistakes happen. You file the card within 7 days before your arrival in Cambodia — not the moment you book your trip, not the day you get your visa approved, and not at the airport gate. Too early and the form falls outside the window; too late and you are filing in a panic at the departure lounge. The sweet spot is two to three days before you fly, once your flight details are settled.

This catches Americans out because the instinct, after the relief of an approved visa, is to knock out every remaining form immediately. With the e-Arrival Card, that instinct works against you. The card is keyed to a specific arrival date and flight, and the system expects that information to be current. File it nine days out and you may have to redo it; file it once you are inside the 7-day window and it locks in cleanly.

The other timing trap is the opposite extreme — leaving it until you are already at the airport. The e-Arrival Card is checked at or beside the immigration desk at the main Cambodian airports, and travelers who arrive without one get pulled out of the line to complete it on the spot, on airport Wi-Fi, with a queue building behind them. Filing it calmly two days earlier from your couch is the whole point. Our guide on whether you need a Cambodia e-Arrival Card spells out who has to file and when.

Common fee misconceptions Americans bring to it

A handful of the same wrong assumptions come up again and again, and clearing them now saves you a surprise later. Most of them trace back to the fact that the e-Arrival Card is newer than the visa and that travelers expect it to behave like other entry forms they have filled out elsewhere.

• "The e-Arrival is included in my visa." It is not. The visa fee and the e-Arrival fee are two separate transactions for two separate steps, and paying one does not cover the other.
• "I can file once for my whole family." No. Each traveler files their own card at $5 USD, including children and infants — there is no shared or family card.
• "There is a rush fee if I file last minute." There is no rush tier and no late surcharge on the e-Arrival Card. The fee is flat. The risk of filing late is not extra cost, it is getting pulled aside at the gate.
• "I paid in USD, so I will be charged again in Cambodian riel." No. Everything is billed in US dollars, so there is no second local-currency charge waiting at the airport.
• "I can skip it if I have my visa." You cannot. The e-Arrival Card is mandatory for every air arrival in 2026, regardless of which visa you hold.

The thread running through all of these is the same: the e-Arrival Card is a small, separate, mandatory step that does a different job from your visa, and the $5 USD verified fee buys you a card that is filed in the right window and checked before it reaches Cambodian Immigration. Pay both fees, file inside the 7-day window, and arrival is a non-event. If you are still unsure whether you need the e-Arrival Card with your Cambodia eVisa, that question has a clear answer. And if you are mapping the total spend for a trip, our Cambodia visa cost guide for Americans pulls the visa and the e-Arrival together into one running total.

Next steps and related reading for Americans: get your verified e-Arrival Card filed when your flight is within the 7-day window, see the full Cambodia visa cost for US citizens to budget the whole trip, confirm whether you need the e-Arrival Card at all, and walk through exactly how to fill out the e-Arrival Card field by field before you start.