Cambodia eVisa Application: Required Documents Checklist for US Citizens

What is NOT required (and why this surprises Americans)

This is where the Cambodia eVisa parts ways with almost every other visa Americans apply for. The list of things you do NOT need is longer than the list of things you do. Most US travelers coming from an Indian e-Visa, Vietnam eVisa, or Indonesian e-VOA process are pleasantly surprised — and a little suspicious — when they see what Cambodia skips.

• No return flight ticket. Cambodian Immigration does not ask for proof of onward travel at the eVisa stage. You can apply with no flight booked and a tentative arrival date in mind.
• No onward ticket to a third country. Even if your route is Los Angeles → Phnom Penh → onward into Vietnam, you do not need to prove the Vietnam side at the application stage.
• ホテルの予約はしていません。フォームにはカンボジアでの滞在予定住所を記入する欄がありますが、ホテル名と都市名だけで十分です。予約番号も、確認PDFも、宿泊料金の支払い証明もありません。
• 銀行残高証明書は不要です。カンボジアでは電子ビザ申請時に資金証明は求められません。最低残高の規定はなく、給与明細の提出も、雇用主からの証明書も必要ありません。
• 旅程表は不要です。日ごとの旅行計画、ツアー予約、7日目にどこにいるかを証明する書類は必要ありません。
• No vaccination record. Cambodia has no eVisa-stage health document requirement for US travelers — though CDC travel health still has standing advice on hepatitis A and typhoid worth a five-minute read.
• 旅行保険の証明書は不要です。カンボジアへ旅行するアメリカ人にとって保険加入は賢明ですが、電子ビザ申請では保険証の提示を求められることはありません。

The reason all of that is missing is straightforward. Cambodian Immigration treats the visa-fee transaction itself as the commitment — once you have paid for an eVisa, you have skin in the game. The bigger arrival picture (flight number, accommodation address, customs declaration) is collected separately through the e-Arrival Card in the week before you fly. The application stage just asks: who are you, can we see your face, and can you pay? Everything else is handled later.

自宅で完璧なパスポート写真を撮る方法

You do not need a drugstore counter, a passport-photo booth, or any specialist gear. A phone camera and a plain white wall is the setup the majority of American applicants use, and it produces a clean compliant photo every time when you follow a short routine. Most travelers do this in 90 seconds at their kitchen window.

Find a plain white wall — interior paint is ideal, but a closed white door or a white sheet pinned flat will do. Stand about 20 inches from the wall, not pressed against it, so there are no shadows behind your head. Face a window where daylight is coming in sideways, not directly behind you, so your face is lit evenly and the wall stays white. Mid-morning or mid-afternoon is best. Avoid late evening, when warm artificial light yellows the wall.

Use the phone's main rear camera, not the selfie camera, and hold it in portrait orientation at eye level. Have someone else press the shutter if you can — arm's-length selfies distort facial proportions and the auto-flagger catches that. Look straight at the lens with a neutral expression. No smile, no teeth, no laughing, and no overly serious face either. Just relaxed. Tuck your hair behind your ears if it covers your face. Take the glasses off. Remove any hat. Take five or six shots and pick the best one.

Save the file as a JPEG, under 2 MB, ideally 600×600 pixels or larger. iPhone and modern Android cameras default to a higher resolution than that — you may need to crop to a square or convert HEIC to JPEG in the Photos app before upload. Do not edit, filter, or beautify the image. The auto-flagger looks for natural skin texture and rejects heavily smoothed photos.

パスポートの顔写真ページのスキャンに関するヒント

カンボジア入国審査官は、パスポートの顔写真ページに記載されているすべての情報（氏名、パスポート番号、生年月日、発行日と有効期限、下部の機械読み取り領域）を読み取る必要があります。スマートフォンのカメラでスキャンした画像で十分です。フラットベッドスキャナーは必要ありません。基本的な条件は、平らな面、反射がないこと、ページの両端がフレーム内に収まること、すべての文字が判読可能であることです。

Put the passport flat on a clean, plain, ideally dark surface — a wooden desk or a black notebook works well, because the contrast makes the page edges clearer for the upload validator. Use daylight from a side window, not the camera flash. Flash bounces straight back off the passport laminate and washes the page out. Hold the phone directly above the open passport, parallel to the page, about a foot away. Tap to focus on the text.

If the laminate is reflecting light back into the lens, tilt the passport very slightly so the reflection moves off to the side — you only need a few degrees. Check the photo before you upload: can you read every letter of your name, every digit of the passport number, and the two lines of < character codes at the bottom? If yes, you are done. If anything is fuzzy, blown out, or cropped, retake. The most common correction on this step is a corner of the bio page falling outside the frame, so leave a thumb-width of margin around all four edges.

例外的なケース ― グリーンカード保持者、二重国籍者、未成年者、氏名変更者

Most Americans fit the standard eVisa box cleanly. A few situations need a closer look before you start, mostly around which passport you use and what name appears on the application.

外国のパスポートで米国永住権（グリーンカード）を保持している人は、永住権ではなく、所持しているパスポートに基づいて申請します。ニューヨークに永住権で居住している英国人、インド人、フィリピン人は、米国人としてではなく、英国人、インド人、フィリピン人として申請します。カンボジアの電子ビザシステムはパスポートから国籍を読み取るため、永住権は関係ありません。申請資格、手数料、処理規則は、居住地ではなくパスポートに基づいて決定されます。

Dual citizens (US + UK, US + Vietnam, US + India, US + Ireland) should apply on whichever passport they plan to enter Cambodia with — and use exactly the same passport for the exit. Switching mid-trip causes problems at the gate every time. The eVisa is tied to the passport number you applied with, full stop.

Minors and newborns each need their own Cambodia eVisa under their own passport. There is no family discount and no shared application. A US baby born last week, traveling with parents, needs a US infant passport first, then their own eVisa. The same five-item document checklist applies, with the same photo specs (yes, including a no-smile passport photo of a six-month-old — it is genuinely the hardest part of the application for new parents).

Name changes after marriage are the other common edge case. The name on the application must match your current passport machine-readable zone exactly — character for character. If you married in 2025 and your passport still shows your maiden name, apply in your maiden name. If you already updated your passport, apply in your new name. Do not mix the two. A name mismatch is one of the avoidable slips we cover in the Cambodia eVisa mistakes to avoid guide, alongside the date-format errors that trip up first-time American applicants.

応募前に準備しておく

Five items, ten minutes, three business days. That is the entire Cambodia eVisa shape for US citizens in 2026. Tourist eVisa $80 USD, Business eVisa $90 USD, both delivered as a printable PDF by email, both with free resubmission if Immigration flags a correction, both backed by US-timezone support. No return flight, no hotel booking, no bank statement, no itinerary. If you want the longer-form version of this list, our Cambodia eVisa documents required for Americans guide lays out every line item.

One reminder before you start. The visa is one form, the e-Arrival Card is a different form, and both are mandatory for every air arrival in 2026. The visa application happens now; the e-Arrival happens within 7 days before you fly. Americans who plan for both at the start avoid the most common 2026 trip-stopper at the kiosk.

Next steps and related reading for Americans: apply for your Cambodia eVisa when you are ready to lodge, bookmark our Cambodia visa hub for US citizens as the single canonical reference, skim the FAQ on Cambodia visa documents for quick answers, and use our glossary of Cambodia visa terms to decode any acronym in this guide.