Cambodia Visa Types Explained for Australians: 2026 Full Catalogue (T, E, A, K, B)

The eVisa portal: T and E only — A, K, B go through the embassy

This is the single most important practical fact about the five-class system in 2026: the Cambodian government's online eVisa portal only issues T and E classes. Nothing else. If you log in expecting to find a dropdown with five options, you will not — the dropdown has two. Tourist or Business. Anything you read on an out-of-date travel blog suggesting you can apply for an A, K, or B class online is wrong. Those three classes are issued exclusively through the Royal Embassy of Cambodia in Canberra, on the strength of eligibility paperwork that an ordinary Aussie tourist or business traveller does not have.

The practical consequence is clean: if your trip is a normal Aussie tourist or business trip, you apply online for T or E and you are done. If your trip somehow involves a diplomatic posting, a UN secondment, an official government delegation, or a long-term return on Khmer heritage grounds, you stop applying online and contact the Embassy directly. The Cambodia Embassy Canberra guide for Australians walks through the embassy process for the edge cases — though if you are reading this looking for your own tourist trip, that guide is not what you need.

The eVisa portal's two-class limit is also why the persistent confusion around 'Ordinary visa' is worth clearing up. The Business eVisa and the Ordinary visa are the same product — same E-Class code, same $90 USD price for Aussies, same 30-day initial stay, same in-country extension menu. 'Ordinary' is the formal class name in Cambodian Immigration documentation; 'Business' is the everyday label on the eVisa portal. When an Aussie reads 'Ordinary visa' on an immigration policy document, that is the E-Class they would also see as the Business option at checkout.

How Aussies actually pick between T and E

Because the real decision is always T or E for almost every Aussie, here is the practical decision flow we run on the application desk every working day. Five quick questions, mapped to the right class. If you can answer them honestly, you almost never pick wrong.

Question one: is your stay 30 days or fewer? If yes, continue. If no — you are planning longer than 30 days — you need the Business eVisa from the start, because the Tourist eVisa cannot be extended in-country since November 2025. Skip the rest of the questions and apply for E.

Question two: does any part of your trip involve paid work? Remote work for an Australian employer counts. Freelance assignments count. Paid speaking gigs count. Sales calls count. If yes, you need the Business eVisa. If no, continue.

Question three: are you attending business meetings, supplier visits, conferences, or sponsored events? Even a single half-day of meetings, a one-off conference, or a single supplier site visit pushes the trip into Business class. If yes, you need the Business eVisa. If no, continue.

Question four: are you doing any kind of structured commercial activity — due diligence, investor scouting, factory inspections, training delivery, board meetings? If yes, Business eVisa. If no, continue. Question five: is the rest of your trip leisure — Angkor Wat, Koh Rong, family visits, food, beaches, sightseeing? If yes, Tourist eVisa is the right answer. If you answered yes to any of questions one through four, you are an E-Class trip; otherwise you are a T-Class trip. The T vs E detailed comparison for Australians has worked Aussie scenarios for each combination if your trip sits on the edge.

What the visa class code does at the border

When you land at Phnom Penh (KTI), Siem Reap (SAI), or Sihanoukville (KOS), the immigration officer at the desk scans the QR or barcode on your eVisa PDF. The scanner returns your visa class code — T or E — and that letter goes straight into the Cambodian Immigration trip log against your passport number. The officer sees the class on their screen before they ask you anything. If you printed a Tourist eVisa and the officer asks 'purpose of visit?' your answer needs to match the class on screen. 'Tourism, Angkor Wat, a week with family' matches T. 'Three days of meetings then four days at Angkor' does not — the meetings part should sit on an E-Class.

The class code also matters for audit trail. Cambodian Immigration retains the class scan for every entry on your record, and the trip log is what gets pulled if you apply for a subsequent visa, an extension, or a future entry. A clean record of T-class entries reads as a normal Aussie leisure traveller. A T-class entry followed by an extension attempt or a long overstay reads as a mismatch and gets flagged. An E-class entry followed by extensions reads as a normal long-stay business pattern. The class is not just for the day of arrival — it is the long-term tag on your immigration history with Cambodia. The eVisa vs Visa on Arrival comparison covers how the arrival method affects which class shows on the entry stamp, and the Australian application walkthrough has the upfront online form for both T and E.

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.