Australian permanent residency is a status under Australian immigration law — it doesn't interact with Cambodia's visa system at all. The 2026 passport-based rules for Aussie PRs on Indian, UK, Filipino, Chinese, NZ, US, and EU passports, plus dual-citizen scenarios, RRV interactions, and stateless travel documents.
Apply on the passport you hold, not on your Australian PR status. The PR card has zero bearing on Cambodia's visa system. If you hold an Indian, Filipino, Chinese, UK, or any other passport while living in Australia, your Cambodia visa eligibility, fees, and process are determined entirely by that passport's nationality — not by your AU residency. For most nationalities the answer is still the Cambodia eVisa ($80 USD / ~$122 AUD all-in Tourist, 3 business days), but a handful of countries get redirected to the Cambodian Embassy in Canberra. Check your passport's specific Cambodia visa rules.
Australia has one of the largest permanent-resident populations in the OECD relative to its size — well over two million people live here on a PR visa without an Australian passport. Sydney accountants on Indian passports, Melbourne nurses on Filipino passports, Perth engineers on UK passports, Brisbane researchers on Chinese passports, long-term Kiwis on NZ passports. Most have lived in Australia for years and think of it as home. Yet when they book a Cambodia trip the question lands hard: which set of rules applies?
The short answer is the one that surprises most PRs: your Australian residency is invisible to Cambodian Immigration. The PR card stays in your wallet, the visa decision is made on the passport you present, and the rules you follow are the rules attached to that passport's nationality. That cuts against the way the rest of your life works in Australia — Medicare, the ATO, your bank, your employer all treat PR as effectively the same as citizenship for day-to-day purposes. Cambodian Immigration is the institution that doesn't.
This guide walks through what that means in practice for the eight most common passport nationalities held by Aussie PRs, the dual-citizen scenarios that come up most often, the PR-specific edge cases (RRV, returning resident visa, stateless travel documents), and the documents you still need on the day. If you also hold an Australian passport, the Australia country pillar covers the mainline path; if you do not, read on.
Cambodia's visa system is a passport-nationality system. The eVisa portal asks for your passport number, your nationality as printed on the bio page, and the dates of intended travel. It does not have a field for permanent-resident status in any country, anywhere on the form. The decision Cambodia's system makes is: given this passport's nationality, is the holder eligible for the eVisa, and at what fee? Your address in Manly or Brunswick is irrelevant data from Cambodia's side.
In practice, this is good news for almost every Aussie PR. The Cambodia eVisa is open to citizens of almost every country worldwide — the only exclusions are around half a dozen nationalities (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, and a small handful of others) that the Cambodian government routes through the embassy network instead. If you are reading this on an Indian, UK, Filipino, Chinese, NZ, US, Canadian, or any EU passport, you are on the eVisa path. Same $80 USD (~$122 AUD) all-in Tourist fee, same $90 USD (~$137 AUD) all-in Business fee, same 3 business day approval window as any Australian citizen.
If your passport nationality is not one of the eight above, the verification path is the Cambodian eVisa Official Portal — start an application, enter your nationality, and the system will either accept you onto the eVisa flow or display a notice routing you to the embassy. The notice appears before you pay, so there is no risk of paying a fee you cannot get back. Alternatively, our Do Australians Need a Cambodia Visa explainer has the full visa-policy context for the most common Australian-resident profiles, and the Cambodia eVisa edge cases for Australians guide covers the wider list of unusual scenarios.
Call the embassy directly if your passport nationality is one of the routed-to-embassy countries, if you hold a diplomatic or official (service) passport regardless of nationality, or if you hold a stateless travel document instead of a passport (more on that below). The Royal Embassy of Cambodia in Australia is the right point of contact — they handle Canberra appointments, paperwork, and the visa-sticker process for the cases the eVisa system cannot handle. Allow 2-3 weeks for the embassy route end-to-end.
A lot of Aussie PRs eventually become dual citizens — Australia allows dual nationality and the citizenship pathway is widely used by long-settled PRs. Once you hold two passports, the Cambodia question changes shape: not which set of rules apply, but which passport to use on this particular trip. The answer is the same in every case: pick one passport before you book the flight, apply for the Cambodia eVisa under that passport, and use the SAME passport at both the Cambodia entry gate and the exit gate.
The most common dual-citizen combination we see at VisaToCambodia. UK and Australian Cambodia eVisa fees are identical ($80 USD / ~$122 AUD all-in Tourist), processing time is identical (3 business days), and the application form is the same. Pick whichever passport has the cleanest validity window — at least 6 months from arrival, at least two blank pages — and stay on it for the full trip. If both passports qualify cleanly, default to the Australian passport for the convenience of the AU SmartGate at the Australian-side departure.
Common where a long-settled Indian-passport PR has naturalised as Australian but retains the Indian passport for visa-free family travel back to India. For Cambodia, the rules are again identical between the two — both passports are eligible for the eVisa at the same fee. The deciding factor is usually the onward leg: if you are flying Sydney → Phnom Penh → Delhi, use the Indian passport for the Cambodia eVisa to keep the entry-exit consistency lined up with the Indian visa-free entry on the next leg. If you are flying Sydney → Phnom Penh → Sydney, default to the Australian passport.
Common in Sydney and Melbourne's large Vietnamese-Australian community. The catch is that Vietnam and Cambodia are next door and lots of trips cover both. The rule still stands — pick one passport for Cambodia entry and stay on it for Cambodia exit. Most dual nationals use the Australian passport for Cambodia, then switch to the Vietnamese passport at the Vietnam border where it gives them visa-free entry. Never switch passports while inside Cambodia.
A handful of PR-specific scenarios come up often enough to need their own treatment. None of them change the basic passport rule — Cambodia still cares only about the passport you present — but each one has a wrinkle that catches people out.
The RRV is the Australian-side visa that lets you return to Australia after extended time abroad. It is an Australian travel facility, granted by the Department of Home Affairs, and it sits in your passport as an electronic visa record. From Cambodia's side it does not exist — Cambodian Immigration cannot see your RRV, does not check for it, and does not factor it into the visa decision. You still apply for the Cambodia eVisa on your passport's nationality, you still pay the standard fee, and you still get the standard 3 business day approval. Make sure your RRV is valid for the return leg into Australia before you leave (your airline will check this on the Cambodia → Australia inbound), but for the Cambodia entry itself, the RRV is irrelevant.
Australia does not issue a physical 'green card' the way the US does. Your Australian PR is a digital visa attached to your passport via your Department of Home Affairs Visa Entitlement Verification Online (VEVO) record. There is no card to show Cambodian Immigration — they would not look at it even if there was. Travel on your passport, with the passport open at the photo page, and have your VEVO confirmation accessible only for the Australian return leg.
If you are an Australian PR holding a Convention Travel Document (CTD) or a Certificate of Identity issued by DFAT rather than a national passport — common for refugee-stream PRs — the eVisa portal cannot process the application. Stateless and CTD travellers must apply through the Royal Embassy of Cambodia in Canberra, which handles the documentation case-by-case. Allow 3-4 weeks and call ahead before you book any flights; the embassy will tell you what additional supporting documents they need based on the specific travel document type.
The eVisa application is the same for every nationality, and the supporting documents are the same too. None of them are PR-specific, but the most-bumped Aussie PRs at the gate are the ones who assume their AU residency excuses them from the standard checks. It doesn't — every Cambodia traveller goes through the same gate, with the same documents.
If you are unsure on any specific document, the Cambodia eVisa documents required for Australians guide walks through each one in detail with the spec, the failure modes, and the fix path. The How to apply for the Cambodia eVisa from Australia guide covers the application itself step by step — note that the same flow works regardless of which nationality you apply under. For longer-stay or family-trip context, the Cambodia Tourist visa for Australians post has the full trip-planning view.
The Australian PR card is the most useful piece of plastic in your wallet for almost every dealing with the Australian government. For dealings with Cambodia, it is invisible. You apply on the passport you hold, you pay the fee attached to that passport's nationality (almost always $80 USD / ~$122 AUD all-in Tourist), and you carry the same documents as any other Aussie traveller. If your nationality is one of the small handful routed to the embassy, the Cambodia Embassy in Canberra guide for Australians covers that path. For everyone else — UK, Indian, Filipino, Chinese, NZ, US, EU passports and most of the rest of the world — the standard Cambodia eVisa flow applies. The Smartraveller advisory is worth a read while you wait for the visa to land. And if you would rather have someone walk it with you, our Aussie-timezone team handles non-Australian-passport applications every day.
Next steps and related reading for Australians: apply for your Cambodia eVisa when you are ready to lodge, bookmark our Cambodia visa hub for Australian citizens as the single canonical reference, skim the FAQ on Cambodia visa eligibility for quick answers, and use our glossary of Cambodia visa terms to decode any acronym in this guide.
Bangkok in, Siem Reap out — but check your passport's Thai entry rule.
2026年の最新情報を読む →Classic Indochina pairing — same passport principle applies in Vietnam.
コンビネーションガイドを見る →Overlooked third stop on the Indochina loop, open to almost every passport.
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カンボジア旅行が30日を超える場合、入国時に取得するビザがすべてを決定します。観光eVisa（タイプT）は30日間で硬く上限が決まっており、延長は一切できません。ビジネスeVisa（タイプE）は国内で延長できる唯一の種別で、1ヶ月、3ヶ月、6ヶ月、12ヶ月の延長が可能です。飛行前にアメリカ人が正しく選択するための方法をご紹介します。
カンボジア入国審査でカウンターに提出する3つのもの：米国パスポート、eVisa、eArrival QRコード。審査官が何をどの順序で見たいと思っているか、そしてKTIでの30秒の押印が横のデスクでの余計な手続きになる小さな不一致について説明します。
タイ・カンボジア間の陸路国境がまだすべて閉鎖されているため、バベットは現在ベトナムからカンボジアへの主要な陸上ルートとなっています。ホーチミン市から6時間、印刷したeVisa1枚、eArrival Cardなし—2026年に米国市民が実際どのように通過するかを説明します。
Where most Aussie-resident travellers stop on the way through.
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