Cambodia eVisa Save & Resume: Coming Back to a Part-Filled Application

The 30-day save window and common edge cases

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.

What 30 days means in practice

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.

Accidentally closed the tab — what to do

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.

The biggest trap: stale saved data after a passport renewal

Multi-applicant trips: family, couples and group saves

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.

One email or four?

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.

Group of friends, separate applications