Cambodia eVisa Documents Required for Australians: 2026 Checklist

What is NOT required (and why this surprises Aussies)

This is where the Cambodia eVisa parts ways with almost every other visa Australians apply for. The list of things you do NOT need is longer than the list of things you do. Most Aussies coming from an Indian e-Visa, Vietnam eVisa, or Indonesian e-VOA process are pleasantly surprised — and a little suspicious — when they discover what Cambodia skips.

• No return flight ticket. Cambodian Immigration does not ask for proof of onward travel at the eVisa stage. You can apply with no flight booked and a tentative arrival date in your head.
• No onward ticket to a third country. Even if your itinerary is Sydney → Phnom Penh → land border to Vietnam, you do not need to prove the Vietnam side at the application stage.
• No hotel booking. The form asks for an intended address in Cambodia, but a hotel name and city is enough — no booking reference, no confirmation PDF, no nights-paid evidence.
• No bank statement. Cambodia does not ask for proof of funds for the eVisa. There is no minimum balance, no payslip request, and no employer letter.
• No itinerary. You do not need a day-by-day travel plan, a tour booking, or evidence of where you will be on day 7.
• No vaccination record. Cambodia has no eVisa-stage health document requirement for Australian travellers — though Smartraveller still has standing advice on hepatitis A and typhoid worth a five-minute read.
• No travel insurance proof. Insurance is sensible for any Aussie heading to Cambodia, but the eVisa application itself never asks to see it.

The reason all of that is missing is straightforward. Cambodian Immigration treats the visa-fee transaction itself as the commitment — once you have paid for an eVisa, you have skin in the game. The bigger arrival picture (flight number, accommodation address, customs declaration) is collected separately through the e-Arrival Card in the week before you fly. The application stage just asks: who are you, can we see your face, and can you pay? Everything else is handled later. The Smartraveller advisory for Cambodia is still worth a read for the practical health and safety context, even though it does not affect what you upload.

How to take the perfect passport photo at home

You do not need a chemist shop, a passport-photo booth, or any specialist gear. A phone camera and a plain white wall is the setup the majority of Australian applicants use, and it produces a clean compliant photo every time when you follow a short routine. Most Aussies do this in 90 seconds at their kitchen window.

Find a plain white wall — interior paint is ideal, but a closed white door or a white sheet pinned flat will do. Stand about 50 cm from the wall, not pressed against it, so there are no shadows behind your head. Face a window where daylight is coming in sideways, not directly behind you, so your face is lit evenly and the wall stays white. Mid-morning or mid-afternoon is best. Avoid late evening, where warm artificial light yellows the wall.

Use the phone's main rear camera, not the selfie camera, and hold it in portrait orientation at eye level. Get someone else to press the shutter if you can — arm's-length selfies distort facial proportions and the auto-flagger catches that. Look straight at the lens with a neutral expression. No smile, no teeth, no laughing, no pulling a serious face either. Just relaxed. Tuck your hair behind your ears if it covers your face. Take the glasses off. Remove any hat. Take five or six shots and pick the best one.

Save the file as a JPEG, under 2 MB, ideally 600×600 pixels or larger. iPhone and modern Android cameras default to a higher resolution than that — you may need to crop to a square or compress lightly in the Photos app before upload. Do not edit, filter, or beautify the image. The auto-flagger looks for natural skin texture and rejects heavily smoothed photos.

Passport bio-page scan tips

Cambodian Immigration needs to read every detail on your passport bio page — full name, passport number, date of birth, issue and expiry dates, and the machine-readable zone at the bottom. A clean phone-camera scan is fine; you do not need a flatbed scanner. The basics: flat surface, no glare, both edges of the page fully visible in the frame, all text legible.

Put the passport flat on a clean, plain, ideally dark surface — a wooden desk or a black notebook works well, because contrast makes the page edges clearer for the upload validator. Use daylight from a side window, not the camera flash. Flash bounces straight back off the passport laminate and washes the page out. Hold the phone directly above the open passport, parallel to the page, at about 30 cm. Tap to focus on the text.

If the laminate is reflecting light back into the lens, tilt the passport very slightly so the reflection moves off to the side — you only need a few degrees. Check the photo before you upload: can you read every letter of your name, every digit of the passport number, and the two lines of < character codes at the bottom? If yes, you are done. If anything is fuzzy, blown out, or cropped, retake. The most common rejection on this step is a corner of the bio page outside the frame, so leave a thumb-width of margin around all four edges.

Edge cases — PR holders, dual citizens, minors, name changes

Most Australians fit the standard eVisa box cleanly. A few situations need a closer look before you start, mostly around which passport you use and what name appears on the application.

Australian permanent residents on a foreign passport apply on the passport they hold, not on their PR status. A British, Indian, or Filipino citizen living in Sydney on a PR visa applies as a Brit, Indian, or Filipino — not as an Australian. The Cambodian eVisa system reads nationality from the passport, and your PR card has no bearing on it. Your eligibility, fee, and processing rules follow the passport, not the residency. New Zealand passport holders use the same eVisa as Australians, identical fees, identical process. The Do Australians Need a Visa for Cambodia explainer covers the Aussie-passport scenario in full.

Dual citizens (AU + UK, AU + Vietnam, AU + India, AU + Ireland) should apply on whichever passport they plan to enter Cambodia with — and use exactly the same passport for the exit. Switching mid-trip causes problems at the gate every time. The eVisa is tied to the passport number you applied with, full stop.

Minors and newborns each need their own Cambodia eVisa under their own passport. There is no family discount and no shared application. An Australian baby born last week, travelling with parents, needs an Australian infant passport first, then their own eVisa. Same five-item document checklist applies, with the same photo specs (yes, including a no-smile passport photo of a six-month-old — it is genuinely the most difficult part of the application for new parents).

Name changes after marriage are the other common edge case. The name on the application must match your current passport machine-readable zone exactly — character for character. If you married in 2025 and your passport still shows your maiden name, apply in your maiden name. If you updated your passport already, apply in your new name. Do not mix the two. If your passport is expiring inside the 6-month window, renew through DFAT first — standard turnaround is roughly 3 weeks, priority is 2 business days.

Putting it together before you apply

Five items, ten minutes, three business days. That is the entire Cambodia eVisa shape for Australians in 2026. Tourist eVisa $80 USD (~$122 AUD), Business eVisa $90 USD (~$137 AUD), both delivered as a printable PDF by email, both with free resubmission if Immigration flags a correction, both backed by Aussie-timezone support. No return flight, no hotel booking, no bank statement, no itinerary. The Cambodia visa cost guide for Australians breaks the pricing down further if you want to see where every dollar sits.

One reminder before you start. The visa is one form, the e-Arrival Card is a different form, and both are mandatory for every air arrival in 2026. The visa application happens now; the e-Arrival happens within 7 days before you fly. Aussies who plan for both at the start avoid the most common 2026 trip-stopper at the kiosk. If you want a sense of how long the wait actually is, the Australian processing time guide walks through the 3-business-day timing in detail.

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 documents for quick answers, and use our glossary of Cambodia visa terms to decode any acronym in this guide.