Started the Cambodia eVisa application and got pulled away? Our checkout auto-saves every field — open the resume email and you're back exactly where you stopped, no retyping. The save window holds for 30 days. Tourist $80 USD (~$122 AUD), business $90 USD (~$137 AUD), approved in 3 business days.
Our Cambodia eVisa checkout does — yes. Every field auto-saves to your email address as you type, and a resume link lands in your inbox if you leave part-way through. The save window holds for 30 days. The official Cambodian government portal does not save progress; you start over each time you re-open it. Approved in 3 business days once you finish and pay, delivered as a printable PDF by email. Tourist $80 USD (~$122 AUD), business $90 USD (~$137 AUD) all-in.
Real life happens mid-application. You're typing your passport number when the kids walk in. You're picking your Cambodia accommodation when a work call pulls you away for half an hour. You're three fields from the payment step when the train pulls into your station and you have to close the laptop. For thousands of Australian travellers each month, the Cambodia eVisa is a multi-sitting job — and the question almost every applicant asks at some point is: if I close this, will I have to start over? On our checkout the answer is no. If you have not chosen a path yet, the do Australians need a Cambodia visa explainer is the right first read. See our full Cambodia visa for Australian citizens for the end-to-end walkthrough.
This piece walks through exactly how the resume flow works on our checkout — what auto-saves, what does not, how the 30-day window behaves, what to do if you accidentally close the tab, and the single biggest trap (stale passport data) that catches out Aussies who renew their passport between starting and finishing. If you want the end-to-end application experience, the standard six-step Cambodia eVisa guide covers the full flow.
The official portal does not save
For context: the official Cambodian government portal does not have a save-and-resume feature in 2026. If you start an application there and close the tab, you start over from field one the next time. That is a real friction point for travellers who like to fill applications in two or three sittings — which is most people.
Auto-save on our Cambodia eVisa checkout is invisible — there is no Save button to click, no progress bar to watch, no separate account to create. It works in the background as you type. The short version: the moment you type your email address in the first field, the application starts saving against that email. Every field you complete after that is held alongside it. Close the tab, go to bed, come back a week later — the same email gives you the same draft.
Payment is not saved — for obvious security reasons. You complete the payment step in one go at the end, after every other field is in place. Card details, PayPal authorisations and Apple Pay tokens are never stored against the saved draft. The e-Arrival Card is a separate $5 USD (~$7.50 AUD) submission with its own 14 fields, also auto-saved on its own checkout, and the e-Arrival 14 fields walkthrough covers that flow.
The resume flow is genuinely two clicks. If you started an application and either closed the tab or chose to come back later, here is what happens.
Within a few minutes of you leaving the application part-finished, we email a resume link to the address you used. The email subject is along the lines of "Your Cambodia eVisa application — pick up where you left off". It comes from our standard sender domain, not a Gmail or Hotmail address, so check your inbox first. If it is not in the main inbox after fifteen minutes, check Promotions on Gmail or the Junk folder on Outlook — depending on your spam filter, some providers route auto-generated emails there.
The email contains a single Resume Application button. Click it and the application re-opens in your browser with every field you'd filled in pre-populated. Scroll through, double-check what you'd already entered is still correct (this is the moment to check passport details — see the stale-data section below), fill the remaining fields, and pay. The whole resume action from clicking the email button to landing on your part-filled form is about five seconds.
Same device or different device — both work
The resume link works from any device. You can start the application on your laptop at home, get pulled away, and finish it on your phone on the train the next morning. Click the email link on whichever device you have to hand. The saved draft is tied to your email address, not to a specific browser or device.
Three possibilities. First, you may have typed the email wrong in the first field — common with autocorrect on phones. In that case the resume email went to nobody and the easiest fix is to start a fresh application with the correct email. Second, it might be in spam — search your inbox for the word 'Cambodia' in the last 24 hours. Third, if you genuinely cannot find it and your saved draft has fields you'd rather not retype, email our support team with the email address you used and we can resend the resume link manually. Our payment troubleshooting guide covers what to do if you hit a card issue at the actual checkout once you've resumed.
The auto-save holds for 30 days from your last activity on the application. After 30 days of no resumes, no clicks and no logins, the saved draft is cleared automatically — fields, photo upload, passport scan, the lot. This is a deliberate design choice rather than a bug. Holding personal data forever is a security and privacy risk; thirty days is the sweet spot for the realistic window an Aussie traveller plans a Cambodia trip across.
You can start the application up to a month before your Cambodia trip and resume any time inside that window. The clock resets every time you click the resume link and load the saved form — so if you started on day one, resumed on day fifteen and added more fields, the new 30-day clock starts from day fifteen, not from day one. The draft only clears if you genuinely do not touch it for 30 consecutive days.
Do nothing in a panic. Browser tabs close all the time — phones lock, laptops go to sleep, the OS auto-reloads after an update. Auto-save runs every few seconds, so the last field you actively typed is almost certainly already saved. Wait for the resume email (a few minutes), click the link, confirm what's there, and carry on. The only thing not saved is anything you typed in the same second as the tab closed — and that's at most one or two characters.
This is the one situation where the convenience of auto-save can quietly hurt you. Imagine you start the Cambodia eVisa application in late March, fill your passport details, then get pulled away for a few weeks. In early April you renew your Australian passport at Australia Post — new passport number, new issue date, new expiry. You come back to the resume email on April 20th and click through. The form opens with your old passport details still saved. If you don't notice and complete the application as-is, your eVisa will be approved against a passport that no longer exists. Cambodian Immigration at KTI, SAI or KOS will not let you in on an eVisa tied to a dead passport. The passport renewal guide covers the DFAT renewal flow and how to update mid-application.
Always re-read your passport block on resume
When you click the resume link, the first thing to do — before adding any new fields — is scroll back to the passport number, passport issue date and passport expiry date. Read each one off your current passport letter-for-letter. If anything has changed (renewal, replacement after loss, second passport), overwrite the saved value and upload a fresh bio-page scan before continuing.
Families and couples applying together get the same auto-save behaviour, with one wrinkle worth knowing. Each Cambodia eVisa is one application per person — every traveller needs their own form, photo, passport scan, and approval PDF. So if a family of four are flying to Phnom Penh together, that's four separate applications, each saved against the email address used.
You can apply for the whole family under one parent's email — that is the most common Aussie pattern. Each application is saved as a separate draft against that one email, and you'll get four separate resume links if you stop part-way through. Or each adult can use their own email and the kids' applications sit under whichever parent's email is most convenient. Both patterns work. The visa office cares about each application individually; the email is just how we route the resume links and the final approval PDFs.
For a group of friends heading to Cambodia together, the cleanest approach is each person applies under their own email. That way each traveller controls their own resume link, their own approval PDF, and their own e-Arrival Card. If one of you stalls mid-application, only that one person has to resume; the others are unaffected. Tourist $80 USD (~$122 AUD) each, business $90 USD (~$137 AUD) each, approved in 3 business days, delivered as a printable PDF by email. Free resubmission if Immigration flags a correction, Aussie-timezone support stays on the email thread. The Smartraveller Cambodia briefing covers the broader DFAT entry rules.
Once everyone in your group has their eVisa approved, the next step is the e-Arrival Card — 14 fields each, submitted within the 7-day window before flight. Our verified e-Arrival is $5 USD (~$7.50 AUD) per person and auto-saves the same way as the visa checkout. The couples and family shared-fill guide covers the time-saving moves when filling multiple e-Arrival cards in a row.
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.
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