カンボジア eVisa 写真要件（米国市民向け）：2026年仕様 + 自宅で撮影ガイド

Background, lighting, and framing rules

Background is where most American photos go wrong, and it is the easiest thing to fix. The requirement is a plain, light, even background — white or off-white, no patterns, no furniture, no doorframes, no posters behind your head. The validator wants a clean separation between your face and the wall, and anything busy behind you reads as clutter that can mask the edges of your head.

The catch is that lighting changes what "white" looks like to the camera. A genuinely white wall photographed under warm evening lamplight comes out cream or yellow, and that off-white cast is one of the most common silent rejections. Shoot in daytime with natural light. Stand about two feet from the wall, not pressed against it, so your body does not throw a shadow onto the background behind your head. Face a window so daylight hits your face from the front or side, never with the window directly behind you, which turns you into a silhouette.

For framing: head centered, looking straight at the lens, both ears and the full outline of your face visible. Hair tucked back if it crosses your face. Neutral expression — mouth closed, no smile, eyes open. The whole point is a flat, evenly lit, true-to-life headshot, which is exactly what the validator is built to confirm. If you want the full breakdown of what counts as an acceptable backdrop and how to handle a home with no plain wall, our Cambodia visa photo background rules guide covers every case.

How to take it at home on your iPhone in two minutes

You do not need a drugstore, a booth, or any special gear. A phone and a plain white wall is the setup the majority of American applicants use, and it produces a compliant photo every time when you follow a short routine. Here is the version my team gives travelers who call in unsure.

Find a plain white wall — interior paint is ideal, but a closed white door or a white sheet pinned flat works. Stand about two feet in front of it, not against it, so there are no shadows behind your head. Position yourself so daylight from a window lands on your face from the front or the side. Mid-morning or mid-afternoon gives the cleanest light; avoid evening, when warm bulbs yellow the wall.

Use the rear camera, not the selfie camera — the front camera distorts facial proportions and the validator catches that. Hold the phone in portrait orientation at eye level, and have someone else take the shot if you can, since an arm’s-length selfie warps your features. Look straight at the lens with a relaxed, neutral face. No smile, no teeth, no exaggerated serious look either. Take the glasses off, remove any hat, tuck your hair behind your ears. Shoot five or six frames and pick the cleanest one.

Then handle the file. On an iPhone, set the camera to save JPEG (Settings, Camera, Formats, Most Compatible) before you shoot, or convert afterward by cropping in the Photos app and saving a copy. Crop square around your head and shoulders, leaving a little space above your hair, and check the result is at least 600 pixels on each side. Do not apply filters, beauty smoothing, or portrait-mode blur — the validator looks for natural skin texture and rejects heavily edited images. Our step-by-step Cambodia eVisa iPhone photo guide for Americans shows each tap from camera setting to upload.

The 9 reasons a Cambodia eVisa photo gets flagged

Photo rejection is the single most common reason an American application loses a day, and almost every case traces back to the same short list. My desk logs every flag the upload validator raises, and here is what actually trips Americans up, in rough order of frequency.

• A smile. Even a slight one, even with the mouth closed. The expression must be neutral — relaxed face, lips together, eyes open.
• Glasses. Any frames at all, including thin wire ones and reading glasses. Take them off, including for prescription wearers.
• An off-white or colored wall. A white wall shot under warm light reads cream, and a tinted background is a frequent silent rejection.
• Shadows behind the head. Standing too close to the wall or lighting from one harsh side throws a shadow that the validator reads as a second tone.
• Resolution under 600 pixels. A photo cropped too aggressively, or sent from a low-quality source, falls below the minimum the system will verify.
• A hat or head covering. Caps, beanies, and hoods are out; only daily religious head coverings are allowed, and your full face must still be visible.
• Wrong file format. A HEIC straight off an iPhone, or a PNG, instead of a standard JPEG under 2 MB.
• An old photo. Anything older than 6 months, or one that no longer matches how you currently look, fails the recency check.
• Edited or filtered images. Beauty smoothing, portrait blur, and heavy filters strip the natural skin texture the validator expects.

None of those are hard to avoid once you have the list in front of you, and a flagged photo is not the end of the application — it is a same-day fix. If a photo of yours has already been bounced and you are not sure why, our guide to fixing a rejected Cambodia eVisa photo maps each flag to the exact correction, and the broader Cambodia eVisa rejection reasons rundown covers the non-photo causes too.

Edge cases — babies, glasses, religious head coverings, beards

Most American applicants fit the standard photo rules cleanly. A handful of situations come up often enough on my desk to be worth calling out before you shoot.

Babies and young children each need their own Cambodia eVisa, with their own photo, on the same neutral-expression, white-background rule as adults. That is genuinely the hardest part of the application for new parents — a no-smile photo of a six-month-old who cannot hold their head up. Lay the child on a plain white sheet and shoot straight down, with no other person, no toy, and no hand visible in the frame. Eyes open if you can manage it; a calm, relaxed expression is what you are after.

Glasses come off, full stop — including for travelers who wear them every waking hour. There is no medical exemption in the current spec, so take the shot without them and put them straight back on. For religious head coverings worn daily, you may keep them on, but your full face from the bottom of the chin to the top of the forehead must be clearly visible, with nothing shadowing your features. Beards and facial hair are fine and need no special handling — just keep the neutral expression and the even lighting.

One more for travelers with strong prescriptions or sensitive eyes: take a moment after removing your glasses to let your eyes settle so they are open and natural, not squinting against the light. Squinting reads as a closed-eye flag. If glasses, expression, or eye issues are your concern, our note on Cambodia eVisa photo glasses and expression rules goes deeper on each. And before you upload, it is worth running through the full Cambodia eVisa photo checklist so nothing slips.

What happens after you upload

Once your photo passes the upload check, it travels with the rest of your application and you do not think about it again. If it is flagged, you get an email with a clear, specific list of what to re-upload — usually a fresh shot against a white wall, or a JPEG instead of a HEIC. There is no extra charge to fix it. Free resubmission is part of the all-in price, and the moment you reply with a corrected photo the 3-business-day clock keeps running. You are not penalized for needing a second go at the upload.

That is the whole photo story: a neutral face, a white wall, daylight, a JPEG under 2 MB. Two minutes at home and you are done. The Tourist eVisa is $80 USD all-in and the Business eVisa is $90 USD all-in, both approved in 3 business days and delivered as a printable PDF by email, with US-timezone support if anything snags. When your photo is ready, the next step is the application itself — our step-by-step Cambodia eVisa application guide for Americans walks through every field, and the required documents checklist confirms the four other things you will need alongside the photo.

Next steps and related reading for US citizens: apply for your Cambodia eVisa when your photo is ready, bookmark the Cambodia visa hub for United States citizens as your single reference, dig into the exact photo size and file format if you are unsure about pixels and megabytes, and keep the photo checklist open while you shoot.