Walgreens, CVS, and Walmart will all shoot a passport-style photo for around $15 to $17, and any of them works for your Cambodia eVisa. But you can also take a compliant photo at home on your iPhone for free in two minutes. Here is where each option makes sense, what it costs, and how to make sure the photo passes.
Any major US pharmacy or retailer that shoots passport photos works for the Cambodia eVisa — Walgreens, CVS, and Walmart all charge roughly $15 to $17 in 2026, and their standard US-passport setup already meets Cambodia’s requirements. You can also take the photo yourself at home on a phone for free: a plain white wall, daylight from a window, and a neutral expression with no glasses produces a compliant image, which is how most American applicants do it. The one thing to remember if you use a store is to ask for the digital file, because the eVisa needs an uploaded JPEG under 2 MB, not a printed card.
This guide walks through each option — what the major US chains charge, how the phone-app route works, and the free at-home method step by step — plus the one thing to ask for at the counter so your store photo is upload-ready. When your photo is sorted, you can apply in a few minutes. For the exact pixel-and-megabyte rules behind all of this, our Cambodia eVisa photo requirements for US citizens guide is the companion piece, and the wider Cambodia visa for United States citizens hub covers cost, processing, and documents.
The catch with all three is that they hand you printed cards by default, and Cambodia’s eVisa does not take a print — it takes an uploaded digital file. Ask the associate to email or text you the digital photo, or to save it to a USB drive. Most stores will do this, sometimes for a small extra fee, and that file is what you actually upload. If they cannot give you the digital version, you can photograph the print under good light at home as a fallback, but a clean direct file is always better. Our note on the Cambodia eVisa photo size and file format spells out the JPEG, megabyte, and pixel targets the upload needs.
A word of caution on the free ones: some apps over-process the image, smoothing skin or sharpening edges in a way the upload validator can read as edited, which is its own rejection flag. Pick a tool that exports a clean, natural photo and skip any beauty or filter step. If you want a steer on which approach holds up, our rundown of the Cambodia visa photo online tool route weighs the app shortcuts against doing it by hand.
Then handle the file: on an iPhone, set the camera to save JPEG (Settings, Camera, Formats, Most Compatible) before you shoot, or convert afterward by cropping in the Photos app and saving a copy. Crop square around your head and shoulders, leave a little space above your hair, and confirm the result is at least 600 pixels on each side. No filters, no portrait blur, no beauty smoothing. Our take a Cambodia visa photo with your phone walkthrough shows each tap, and the Cambodia eVisa iPhone photo guide for Americans goes deeper on the camera settings if you want them.
One last reassurance from my desk: if a photo does get flagged after you upload it, you get an email with a clear, specific list of what to re-shoot — usually a fresh photo against a white wall, or a JPEG instead of a HEIC. There is no extra charge to fix it, free resubmission is part of the all-in price, and the 3-business-day clock keeps running once you reply. If your photo has already been bounced and you are not sure why, our guide to fixing a rejected Cambodia eVisa photo maps each flag to its correction.
Next steps for US citizens: once your photo is ready, apply for your Cambodia eVisa and upload the file at the photo step. The size and format, the phone walkthrough, and the requirements spec are all linked above if you need a last check before you submit.
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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.
