Yes — if you visited Cambodia before, your old eVisa is gone the moment you left, and your next trip needs a brand-new one. The Cambodia eVisa is single-entry for US citizens, so every arrival is a fresh $80 application. Here is exactly why, what carries over (almost nothing), and how returning Americans re-apply in a fraction of the time.
Yes. The Cambodia eVisa is single-entry for US citizens, so each visa covers exactly one arrival into the country. The moment you exited Cambodia on your last trip, that eVisa was used up — it cannot be reused, renewed, or reactivated, even if your old 30-day stay window had days left. Every new trip is a brand-new application at the same price: $80 USD for the Tourist eVisa or $90 USD for the Business eVisa, approved in 3 business days. There is no limit on how often you can come back, and no penalty for re-applying as many times as you travel. The good news for frequent returners: the application is the same light five-item pack every time, so your second, third, and tenth visas go much faster than your first.
You loved Cambodia the first time. Now you are planning a second trip — maybe Angkor Wat again, maybe a Phnom Penh business follow-up, maybe a longer regional loop through Vietnam this round. So you dig out the approval PDF from last year, check the dates, and pause: is this thing still good? Can you just show the same eVisa at the gate, or do you have to start over?
You have to start over. The Cambodia eVisa is single-entry, and single-entry means it dies the instant you leave the country. It is not an annual pass, not a multi-entry sticker, not something you top up. The visa you used last trip is finished, archived, done — and your next arrival needs a fresh one filed from scratch. This catches out a surprising number of returning Americans, because plenty of other countries let you ride the same visa for years or for repeated entries. Cambodia does not.
This guide is the definitive answer for returning travelers: why every trip needs its own eVisa, what (if anything) carries over from your last application, how the e-Arrival Card stacks on top of it, and how to re-apply in a fraction of the time it took the first round. For the full country-level picture — fees, documents, processing, everything in one place — our Cambodia visa hub for US citizens is the canonical reference, and when you are ready you can apply for your next eVisa straight away.
Both Cambodia eVisa types issued to US citizens are single-entry. The Tourist eVisa and the Business eVisa each grant exactly one arrival into Cambodia. You enter once, your 30-day stay clock starts, and the moment you cross back out — by air to Bangkok, by flight to Saigon, anywhere — that visa is spent. It does not matter whether you used 3 days of your stay or all 30. Exit equals consumed.
This trips people up because of the 3-month validity number. Your eVisa is valid for 3 months from the date it is issued, and travelers read "3 months" as "I can come and go for 3 months." It does not mean that. The 3-month validity is simply your deadline to make your single arrival — the last day you are allowed to walk through Immigration on that visa. Once you arrive, the validity window has done its job. Leave the country, and even if two of those three months remain on paper, the visa cannot be used again.
A "trip" for visa purposes is a single arrival into Cambodia. If your itinerary is a clean there-and-back — fly into Phnom Penh, spend two weeks, fly home — that is one arrival and one eVisa. Simple. The complexity starts when a single journey involves more than one Cambodia arrival.
Say you fly into Siem Reap, hop over to Vietnam for a few days mid-trip, then come back into Cambodia to fly home from Phnom Penh. That is two Cambodia arrivals, which means two Cambodia eVisas — your first one is consumed the moment you leave for Vietnam, and re-entering needs a second visa filed in advance. This is the single most expensive mistake returning Americans make on regional loops, and our guide to single vs multiple-entry Cambodia visas walks through exactly how to sequence it.
Here is the part that actually helps returning Americans: while the visa itself does not carry over, almost everything you learned and gathered last time does. Your second application is the same five-item pack as your first, and most of those items are already sitting on your phone from the last round. That is why returning travelers routinely finish the upload in a couple of minutes instead of the ten-plus it took the first time.
The net effect: returning Americans re-apply faster, not free. The fee is the same every trip, but the friction drops to near zero once you know the rhythm. If you want a tight pre-flight routine for repeat applications — what to have open, what to skip, how to clear the upload in one pass — our faster re-apply checklist for returning Americans is built for exactly this.
If the visa rule surprises returning travelers, the e-Arrival rule catches them a second time. The Cambodia e-Arrival Card — the mandatory digital arrival declaration every air traveler files before landing — is also strictly per-arrival. There is no carry-over, no reuse, no "I did one last year." Each Cambodia arrival needs its own fresh e-Arrival Card, filed within the 7-day window before that specific flight.
So a returning American on a straightforward second trip is really filing two things: a new eVisa (the entry permission) and a new e-Arrival Card (the arrival declaration). They are separate systems, separate steps, separate small fees. The e-Arrival Card is 14 fields covering your flight, your Cambodia address, and a short customs declaration, and it regenerates from scratch every trip because the flight and dates are different each time.
On a multi-arrival loop the math compounds: two Cambodia arrivals means two eVisas and two e-Arrival Cards. You cannot file one e-Arrival Card to cover both legs, and you cannot reuse the QR code from your first arrival on your second. Our guide to why the e-Arrival Card is new each trip for US visitors breaks down the per-arrival logic and the exact 7-day timing for each leg.
The first Cambodia eVisa application feels like work because everything is new — you are reading the photo specs for the first time, second-guessing the accommodation field, hunting for your passport scan. The second one is nothing like that. Returning Americans who know the shape of the form routinely complete the whole thing during a coffee break. Here is the fast path.
Passport with 6 months validity, a photo from the last 6 months, your card or digital wallet, and a hotel name and city — most already on your phone from last trip.
Type your details exactly as they appear in the machine-readable zone, then upload the recent photo and the passport bio-page scan.
Add this trip's arrival date, flight, and Cambodia address — no flight booking, hotel reservation, or bank statement required.
Tourist eVisa $80 USD or Business eVisa $90 USD, all-in, paid by card, PayPal, Apple Pay, or Google Pay.
It lands as a printable PDF by email; if anything is flagged, resubmission is free, so a stale photo or glare costs a quick fix, not a fresh fee.
Separate per-arrival step: $5 USD verified through us, 14 fields, filed within 7 days before your flight into Cambodia.
Before you start, have four things ready on your phone or desk: your passport (or its bio-page scan from last time, if the passport is unchanged and still has 6 months validity), a passport photo taken in the last 6 months, your card or digital wallet, and a hotel name and city for your Cambodia address. That is the entire pack. No flight booking, no hotel reservation, no bank statement, no itinerary — none of that was required last time and none of it is required now.
Then it is the same sequence you already ran once: enter your passport details exactly as they appear in the machine-readable zone, upload the photo and the bio-page scan, fill the short trip section, pay, and submit. Approval lands in 3 business days as a printable PDF by email — the same outcome as your first trip. If anything gets flagged, resubmission is free, so a stale photo or a glare on the scan costs you a quick fix, not a fresh fee.
The Returning-Travelers desk fields the same handful of edge cases over and over. If you fly to Cambodia several times a year, or you are building a multi-country Southeast Asia route, these are the ones worth knowing before you book.
Americans worry that filing eVisa after eVisa will trip some kind of frequency flag. It will not. There is no cap on the number of single-entry eVisas you can hold across separate trips, no mandatory cooling-off period between visits, and no penalty for being a frequent visitor. A consultant who flies in monthly applies twelve times a year, every time at the same $80 Tourist or $90 Business price and the same 3-business-day approval. Each application stands alone.
If your real goal is a long continuous stay rather than repeat trips, do not plan a "visa run" — a quick hop out and back to reset the clock. That just burns a second eVisa and a second e-Arrival Card for nothing, and the automatic tourist extension that some travelers remember ended in November 2025. The clean route for a long stay is the Business eVisa, which is the only Cambodia visa you can extend from inside the country in 1, 3, 6, or 12-month blocks through an immigration agent. One entry, then extend — no looping required.
Returning travelers who remember crossing the Thailand land border on an older trip should know it is closed: all 7 Thailand-Cambodia land borders have been shut since June 2025, so a Cambodia-Thailand-Cambodia route by road is not currently possible. You fly instead, and each flight back into Cambodia is still a fresh single entry needing its own eVisa. If you previously visited and want to confirm whether your earlier visa has any standing for the next trip, our walkthrough on reusing a Cambodia eVisa on a second trip answers it directly — the short version is no, but the detail matters for planning.
The headline answer is simple and worth holding onto: yes, every trip to Cambodia needs its own eVisa. The visa is single-entry, it is consumed the moment you leave, and the 3-month validity is a deadline to arrive, not a license to come and go. Your old approval PDF is a keepsake. Your next trip starts fresh.
But fresh does not mean hard. Returning Americans re-apply on the same five-item pack — passport, photo, scan, email, payment — most of which is already on your phone from last time. Tourist eVisa $80 USD or Business eVisa $90 USD, both approved in 3 business days, both delivered as a printable PDF by email, both with free resubmission if Immigration flags a correction, all backed by US-timezone support. Then a fresh e-Arrival Card for the arrival itself: $5 USD verified through us, 14 fields, filed within 7 days before you fly.
Next steps and related reading for returning travelers: apply for your next Cambodia eVisa when you are ready to lodge, bookmark the Cambodia visa hub for US citizens as your single canonical reference, run through the faster re-apply checklist before you start, and confirm the per-arrival rule in our guide on whether you can reuse a Cambodia eVisa on a second trip.
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Als uw Cambodia-reis langer dan 30 dagen duurt, bepaalt het visum dat u binnenkomt alles. Het Toeristen eVisum (Type T) is hard begrensd op 30 dagen en kan niet worden verlengd. Het Zakelijke eVisum (Type E) is de enige categorie die u in het land kunt verlengen — 1, 3, 6 of 12 maanden. Hier leest u hoe Amerikanen de juiste keuze maken voordat ze vertrekken.
Drie dingen gaan over de balie bij Cambodja-immigratie: je Amerikaanse paspoort, je eVisa en je e-Arrival QR-code. Hier is precies wat de ambtenaar wil zien, in welke volgorde, en de kleine mismatches die een stempel van 30 seconden veranderen in een omweg naar een side-desk bij KTI.
Nu elke Thailand-Cambodja landgrens nog gesloten is, is Bavet nu de belangrijkste overland route naar Cambodja vanuit Vietnam. Zes uur van Ho Chi Minh City, één afgedrukt eVisa, geen e-Arrival Card — zo doen Amerikaanse burgers het daadwerkelijk in 2026.
The one thing worth checking before you re-apply is whether the price has shifted or whether you should switch visa types this round. Most returning tourists stay on the Tourist eVisa, but if this trip is a longer business stay you may want the Business eVisa instead, since it is the only Cambodia visa that can be extended in-country. Our breakdown of the Cambodia Tourist eVisa price for US citizens has the current all-in figure so there are no surprises at checkout.
A quiet third stop on the loop. Re-entering Cambodia still needs a fresh eVisa.
