A Cambodia visa overstay costs US travelers $10 per day, charged in cash at the airport when you leave. Here is exactly how the per-day fine works, how it escalates past the cheap zone, and how to make sure you never pay a cent of it in 2026.
Cambodia charges US citizens a visa overstay fine of $10 USD per day, collected in cash at the airport Immigration counter on the day you leave. A 3-day overstay costs $30, a week costs $70, and the meter keeps running for every day past your 30-day stay. This per-day fee applies to short overstays. Once an overstay runs long — roughly past 30 days — Cambodian Immigration can stop treating it as a fee and start treating it as an immigration offense, which opens the door to detention, deportation at your own cost, and a ban on returning. Your 30-day stay is counted from the day you enter, single entry, and the tourist auto-extension ended in November 2025, so the only legal way to stay longer is a Business eVisa you can extend in-country. The reliable way to pay nothing is to count your days from the entry stamp and leave on time.
Below you will find the exact per-day cost, how the fine escalates from a fee into a serious problem, where your 30-day clock actually starts, and the cheapest move of all — never triggering the fine in the first place. The short version: count your days from the entry stamp, not the eVisa issue date. If you are still planning the trip, our guide to how long US citizens can stay in Cambodia sets the baseline this whole article is built on, and you can always apply online when you are ready.
For US citizens, a serious overstay also pulls in the US Embassy in Phnom Penh, which can help with a replacement passport or welfare contact but cannot waive a Cambodian fine, reverse a deportation, or lift a re-entry ban — those are entirely Cambodia's call. The practical takeaway is that a short overstay is a cash inconvenience and a long overstay is a genuine travel emergency, so the moment you realize you might run long, the right move is to fix your stay legally rather than let the days accumulate. If your trip is open-ended, our guide on whether you can still extend a Cambodia tourist visa explains why the answer changed in late 2025.
The number that matters for overstay purposes is the entry stamp in your passport. Count 30 days from that stamp and that is your last legal day. Do not count from your eVisa email, your flight booking, or the day you applied. Because the eVisa is single entry, there is no re-entry buffer and no grace period built into the stay — day 31 is an overstay even if your eVisa technically still shows months of validity left. Our breakdown of single-entry versus multiple-entry Cambodia visas for Americans explains why that single-entry rule is the trap that catches the most travelers.
If you already know your trip might run long, the fix is to plan for length before you leave home rather than improvise at day 28. A Business eVisa can be extended in-country for 1, 3, 6, or 12 months, and arranging that extension is dramatically cheaper and calmer than an overstay that tips into offense territory. Our Cambodia visa extension cost guide for Americans lays out what each extension path actually costs, so you can compare it against the $10-per-day meter and the risk that sits behind it.
For most vacationers, none of this is a problem — a 30-day stay is far longer than a typical Cambodia trip, and a phone reminder is all the protection you need. The travelers who get caught are the ones who picked a Tourist eVisa for an open-ended trip, then realized too late that the 30-day ceiling was firm. Choosing correctly at the start removes the whole question. When you are ready, you can apply online in about ten minutes, and for the complete set of entry rules and fees our Cambodia visa cost guide for Americans is the canonical reference.
Next steps and related reading for Americans: apply for your Cambodia eVisa when you are ready to lodge, bookmark our Cambodia visa guide for United States citizens as the single canonical reference, skim the FAQ on Cambodia visa cost for quick answers, and use our glossary of Cambodia visa terms to decode any acronym in this guide.
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De Cambodja e-Arrival Card is een aparte stap van je e-visum en een kleine — $5 USD, geverifieerd via ons, 14 velden, in te vullen en in te dienen binnen 7 dagen voor je vlucht. Hieronder leggen we precies uit wat die kosten dekken, waarom ze niet bij je visumprijs zijn inbegrepen en hoe je door de tijd kunt komen bij de gate.
De Cambodja e-Arrival Card bestaat uit 14 velden verdeeld over drie secties, die binnen 7 dagen voor aankomst moeten worden ingevuld. Hieronder staat precies beschreven wat er in elk veld moet worden ingevuld, in de volgorde zoals het formulier aangeeft, plus het datumformaat dat Amerikaanse reizigers bij de kiosk moet invullen.
De Cambodjaanse e-aankomstkaart vraagt om 14 gegevens, verdeeld over drie onderdelen: uw identiteit, uw vlucht en verblijf, en een korte douaneaangifte. Hieronder vindt u een overzicht van wat er in elk veld gevraagd wordt en de vier documenten die u bij de hand moet hebben voordat u begint.
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