カンボジアで長期的に働くということは、一つではなく二つの別の書類が必要です。滞在を許可するEBビザと、働くことを許可するMLVT労働許可証。これはそれぞれ異なる事務所から発行され、異なる役割を持ちます。多くの米国人は、実際にカンボジアに来てから初めてその違いに気づきますここでは、二文書制度がどのように連携しているかを詳しく説明します。

They are two separate documents that do two different jobs. The EB visa — in practice the Cambodia Business eVisa (Type-E) extended in-country — is your legal right to stay in Cambodia past the initial 30 days. The MLVT work permit is your legal right to be employed there. The EB visa comes from immigration; the work permit comes from the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training. Holding one does not grant the other. An American working long-term in Cambodia in 2026 typically needs both: the EB visa first to enter and remain legally, then the work permit layered on top once they have a local employer. They have different issuing offices, different fees, and different renewal dates, which is why people call it the two-document system.
Almost every American who lands a job, a long contract, or a remote-work base in Cambodia starts with the same wrong assumption: that "getting a work visa" is a single thing. It is not. Cambodia splits the right to stay and the right to work into two separate documents, issued by two different government ministries, on two different clocks. Miss that split, and you can be perfectly legal to be in the country while technically not legal to be working in it — or vice versa.
The confusion is understandable. In the United States there is no clean equivalent: a US work visa bundles status and work authorization into one approval. Cambodia keeps them apart. Your immigration status comes from one office; your authorization to be employed comes from another. They overlap in your day-to-day life, but legally they are two distinct permissions you have to obtain and renew independently.
This guide breaks the two-document system down for US citizens in 2026 — what the EB visa is, what the MLVT work permit is, which one you get first, how the renewal clocks differ, and where most Americans trip up. If you want the upstream picture first, our guide to how the EB visa extension works for Americans covers the stay side in detail, and the Cambodia visa for United States citizens hub is the canonical reference for cost, documents, and processing.
The first document is the EB visa. For an American, this is the Cambodia Business eVisa (Type-E) that you apply for online before you fly, then extend in-country once you arrive. The "EB" label is what you will hear on the ground and in immigration paperwork; the online application calls it the Business eVisa or Type-E. They are the same lineage of visa — the EB extension is what your initial Business eVisa becomes when you extend it inside Cambodia.
Here is the practical shape of it. You apply for the Business eVisa online: $90 USD all-in, approved in 3–5 days, delivered as a printable PDF by email. That gets you into Cambodia and gives you an initial 30-day stay. Once you are in-country, you extend it through a Cambodian immigration agent — 1, 3, 6, or 12 months on top of the initial 30 days. The 6-month and 12-month extensions are the ones long-stay and working Americans almost always take, and the 12-month extension is multi-entry, so you can leave and re-enter during the year.
What the EB visa does NOT do is authorize you to work. This is the single most important thing to understand. The EB visa is purely an immigration document — it answers the question "are you allowed to be in Cambodia?" It says nothing about whether you are allowed to be employed here. An American on a valid 12-month EB extension who takes a local salaried job without a work permit is legally present but not legally working. The two questions are answered by two different documents.
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테코 국제공항(KTI) 또는 시엠리엽(SAI)에서 경유 시 캄보디아 전자입국카드(및 캄보디아 전자비자)가 필요한지 여부는 하나의 질문에 달려 있습니다: 이민선를 건너게 되나요? 2026년 공항 내 이동 규정, 별도 항공편, 국내 연결에 대한 정확한 규정입니다.
2026年に向けカンボジアの入国規則は大幅に変更されました:プノンペンはTecho国際空港(KTI)を開き、紙印紙はデジタルV-Passに置き換えられ、タイ―カンボジア間の陸路国境は全て閉鎖したままです。カナダ人旅行者のための完全な2026年入国点検リストはこちらです。
2026年にカンボジアへ旅行するイギリス市民は、有効なカンボジアビザとデジタルカンボジアeアライバルカード(CeA)の両方が必要です。こちらでは、英国パスポート所持者がTourist(Class T)eVisa、Ordinary(Class E)eVisa、テクオ国際空港(KTI)またはシェムリアップ国際空港(SAI)での到着ビザの中から選択する方法を説明します。
A useful detail for budgeting and planning: the EB visa is the only Cambodia visa that can be extended in-country at all. The Tourist eVisa caps hard at 30 days, and the old tourist auto-extension ended in November 2025 — there is no path to a long stay on a tourist visa anymore. So if your trip involves working, or simply staying longer than a month, the EB route is the only one that supports it. Our guide to which Cambodia visa to enter on for a long stay explains the common case where you legally hold the stay document for months before the work permit ever enters the picture.

The second document is the work permit, issued by the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training — MLVT. This is the document that authorizes you to be employed in Cambodia. It exists entirely separately from your immigration status. The work permit answers a different question than the EB visa: not "can you be here?" but "can you legally hold a job here?"
The work permit is required for foreign nationals in salaried employment with a Cambodian-registered employer. In practice, that means if a Cambodian company is paying you, the company is legally expected to have you on a work permit, and the obligation falls on both the employer and the employee. Cambodia has steadily tightened enforcement since 2023, and the MLVT runs an online system (often referenced as the FWCMS, the Foreign Workers Centralized Management System) that employers use to register foreign staff. The 2026 picture is more documented and more enforced than the loose, paper-era reality many older expat guides still describe.
アメリカ人が知る必要がある重要な特点是更新日程です。労働許可証は暦年で運用され、年間いつ取得しても12月31日に失効します。10月に労働許可証を取得しても、その12月31日に失効します—翌年の全年份のために、年始の更新窗口(通常は第1四半期)で更新します。これは、あなたのEBビザ延長日程とは完全に独立しており、EBビザは延長した時から独自の1、3、6、または12ヶ月のカウントで運行します。この2つの書類が同じ日に失効することはほとんどなく、両方のカレンダーを追跡することが、長期滞在で最も一般的な頭痛の種です。
あなたが個人として労働許可証を必要とするかどうかは、カンボジアで実際には何をしているかによって異なり、ここが多くのアメリカ人が義務を過大評価したり過小評価したりところです。カンボジア企業の俸給従業員は明らかに必要です。米国雇主から米国口座に支払われるリモートワーカーは、より曖昧なケースです—アメリカ人のリモートワーカーがカンボジアの労働許可証を必要とするかどうかについての詳細な考察では、2026年の境界線がどこにあるか、そして答えが明白なものではない理由を詳しく説明しています。

2文書システムを最も明確に描く方法は、基礎と上層として捉えることです。EBビザは基礎です—あなたの法的滞在権。上に重ねる層が労働許可証です—あなたの合法的雇用。まず基礎を築いてから、層を加えます。下の移民ステータスなしでは意味のある労働許可証を持つことはできませんが、労働許可証なしでは移民ステータス(EBビザ)を持つことは完全に可能です。
大多数の米国市民にとって、手順は次のとおりです。まず、飛行前にオンラインでビジネスeVisaを申請します—$90 USD、3〜5日、印刷可能なPDFを取得。次に、そのeVisaでカンボジアに入国し、最初の30日間を使用して準備整えます:住居、関連する場合は地元の銀行、雇用契約がある場合は署名済みの雇用契約也是如此。第三に滞在期間(通常は6または12ヶ月)をカバーするために、エージェントを通じて国内でEBビザを延長。第四に、カンボジアの雇主が你就労先になったら、雇主とあなたがMLVT労働許可証を手配し、滞在に上塗りします。
その手順が、多くのアメリカ人が最初の数ヶ月間合法的にEBビザのみを保持している理由です。労働許可証の書類が提出される前に、着いて、定住して、滞在を延長することはよくあることです—especially如果你 arriving to look for work rather than with a contract already signed. その順序に問題はありません;それが通常の道です。雇用が実際かつ登録されると、労働許可証が追いつきます。
罠は、2つの書類が一緒に動くと想定してしまうことです。実際にはそうではありません。あなたのEB延長は、2026年5月に開始し、2027年5月に期限が切れる12か月間のものかもしれません。同じ5月に取得した就労許可は、2026年12月31日まで有効で、次の暦年のために2027年初めに更新が必要です。したがって、12か月の滞在期間中に、労働省のカレンダーに従って就労許可を一度更新し、EBビザは静かに自動で継続します。2つの時計、2つの省、2つの更新手続きです。各書類が発行された日に、2つのカレンダーリマインダーを設定してください。

The EB visa cost is clean and known up front. The Business eVisa is $90 USD all-in, approved in 3–5 days and delivered as a printable PDF by email — that is the figure you control and pay before you fly. The in-country EB extension is a separate cost arranged through a Cambodian immigration agent once you arrive, and agent pricing fluctuates with the local market, so we do not quote a fixed figure; as a working guide, the 6-month and 12-month extensions deliver the best value per month of stay.
The work permit is a different cost again, with two parts: an MLVT government fee for the permit and the associated health-check requirement, plus the handling cost if an agent or your employer files it for you. Because the work permit is tied to a Cambodian-registered employer and filed through the labor ministry system, the employer is normally the party that initiates and often pays for it — many formal Cambodian employers treat the work permit as their administrative responsibility for foreign staff. Always confirm in writing who is filing and who is paying before you start a job; it is the most common point of confusion in a Cambodian employment offer for an American.
A practical division of labor that holds for most Americans: you own the EB visa entirely — you apply online, you extend it, it is your document tied to your passport. The work permit is a shared responsibility with your employer, often employer-led, because it is fundamentally a record of legal employment rather than a personal travel document. Keep your own copies of both regardless of who files them, and never assume an employer has handled the work permit without seeing the approval yourself.
On the renewal cadence specifically: the EB visa side is the one you will touch most often, and how often you renew depends on which extension length you took. Our comparison of the 6-month vs 12-month EB extension lays out the renewal rhythm and the cost-per-month math, which is the practical lever most long-stay Americans use to keep the total spend down.

The two-document system plays out differently depending on what you are actually doing in Cambodia. Here are the situations we see most often among US citizens, mapped to which documents they realistically need.
最大の落とし穴は手順の順序ミスです:$10安いという理由で観光 eVisa で入国し、延長できない、または就労許可を重ねられないことに気付くことです。観光ビザは就労や長期滞在には行き止まりで、30日で上限があり、2025年11月の変更以降は延長できず、就労許可も付与できません。旅行に仕事が含まれる、または30日以上の滞在の可能性がある場合は、ビジネス eVisa で開始してください。国内でビザクラスを変更することはサポートされていないため、誤った開始を修正する唯一の方法はカンボジアを出て正しいビザで再入国することです。
二番目に大きな落とし穴は、先ほど説明したカレンダーの不一致です——EB ビザはまだ有効で、同時に更新されると想定していたため、就労許可が 31 December を過ぎて失効してしまうことです。実際にはそうなりません。就労許可が失効したまま働き続けることは、移民ステータスが完璧でも執行リスクとなります。各許可証が発行された日から、両方の日付を別々に管理してください。
カンボジアでの長期滞在や就労計画が何であれ、実務的な最初のステップは同じで、フライト前に今日できることです:ビジネス eVisa を申請することです。これが基礎文書であり、法的に国内に入国し30日以上滞在できる唯一の手段で、以降の国内 EB 延長や後の MLVT 就労許可はすべてこれに基づいて構築されます。$90 USD の全額込みで、3–5 日で承認され、メールで印刷可能な PDF として配信されます。入国管理局が修正を指摘した場合は無料で再提出でき、質問がある場合は米国時間帯のサポートが利用可能です。
On arrival, the entry routine is the same as any Business eVisa traveler. Print two copies of the approval PDF — one for entry, one for exit — and carry your US passport with at least 6 months validity and a blank page. Open airports for US arrivals are KTI (Phnom Penh — the new Techo International Airport, which replaced the old PNH on 9 September 2025), SAI (Siem Reap-Angkor), and KOS (Sihanoukville). Overland entry is realistic only from Vietnam or Laos; all seven Thailand-Cambodia land borders have been closed since June 2025, so a Bangkok-overland plan does not work in 2026.
When the immigration officer asks the purpose of your visit, answer honestly — "long-stay business," "remote work for a US employer," or "starting a job in Phnom Penh" are all standard answers the Business eVisa explicitly supports. The work permit and EB extension are arranged later, in-country; none of that happens at the airport. The US Department of State publishes current Cambodia entry and local-conditions guidance that is worth a five-minute read before you fly.
Next steps and related reading for US citizens: apply for your Cambodia eVisa when you are ready to lodge, bookmark the Cambodia visa for United States citizens hub as the single canonical reference, read how the EB visa extension works for the in-country stay side, and check whether American remote workers need a work permit before you assume the answer.