Cambodia e-Arrival Card for Families: One Submission Per Child (US Parents)

What repeats across the family, and what you re-type per child

Here is the part that makes filing for a whole family far less work than it sounds: most of the card is identical for everyone traveling together. Your children are on the same flight, landing the same day, at the same airport, staying at the same address. So the trip section of the card is the same answer copied across every family member. What changes from one card to the next is only the identity section — the five fields that come straight off each person’s own passport.

Think of it as one shared block and one personal block. The shared block — inbound flight number for the final leg into Cambodia, arrival date, port of entry, and your address in Cambodia — you fill in once, then enter the same way on every card. The personal block — full name as printed, passport number, date of birth, and sex — you re-read off each child’s passport for each card. The customs and health declaration in the third section is answered for the family’s situation and is almost always all "no" for tourists, so it repeats too.

Because the identity fields are the only part that changes per child, the cleanest method is to fill each card straight from each child’s passport, the same passport you used to apply for that child’s visa. If you have not lined up the kids’ visas yet, our guide to the Cambodia eVisa for children and families covers the per-child passport and photo requirements, and the e-Arrival identity block draws on the exact same passport bio pages.

How to file the whole family without missing anyone

Filing for a family is a production line, not a puzzle. Lay every passport on the table in a row — yours, your partner’s, and one for each child — and treat each one as its own card from start to finish before you move to the next. Doing it passport by passport, rather than jumping between people, is the single best way to keep a child from slipping through the cracks.

1. 1
   Count the passports

   Lay out every passport coming on the trip — adults and children — and file one e-Arrival Card per passport, with no shared or family version.

2. 2
   Write the shared block once

   Note the final-leg flight number, arrival date in day-month-year, port of entry, and your Cambodia address — the same on every family member’s card.

3. 3
   File card by card from each passport

   For each child, read the identity fields off their own passport — name, passport number, date of birth, sex — then add the shared block.

4. 4
   Answer the declaration and submit

   Complete the customs and health declaration — usually all "no" for tourists — to finish all 14 fields on that child’s card and submit.

5. 5
   Save and label each QR code

   Screenshot the QR code that comes back, rename it to the child’s name, and ideally print it before starting the next person.

6. 6
   Headcount before you fly

   Confirm the number of cards filed matches the number of passengers so no child — especially a baby — gets left off.

Start by writing down the shared block once: the final-leg flight number into Cambodia, the arrival date in day-month-year, the port of entry, and your hotel name and city. That is the part you will repeat on every card, so having it in front of you means you never have to re-derive it. Then work through the passports one at a time. For each card, read the four identity fields straight off that person’s passport — name as printed, passport number, date of birth, sex — paste in the shared block, answer the customs questions, and submit. Save the QR code that comes back, labeled with whose card it is, before you start the next person.

The reason to save and label each QR code as you go is simple: at the arrivals kiosk you will need the right code for the right child, and a folder of five identical-looking QR screenshots with no names is a slow, stressful sort while a tired toddler melts down behind you. Screenshot each one, rename it to the child’s name, and ideally print the set. One printed page per traveler, names written at the top, is the calmest way through a family arrival.

A note on email and accounts: you can file every family member’s card from a single parent’s email and phone. The card does not require the child to have their own email, their own device, or any account of their own. The confirmations all come back to whatever address you file from, which is exactly what you want — one inbox holding the whole family’s set of QR codes.

The date-format trap for birth dates, and a few family edge cases

The detail that catches more American families than any other is the date format. The form reads day-month-year in places, and US parents default to month-day-year out of pure habit. With four or five cards to fill, the odds of slipping at least once go up with every child you add — and a child’s date of birth is an easy place to slip, because you are typing a different birthday on every card. Enter 06/07 thinking July 6th when the system reads June 7th and that child’s record is a month off, which is enough to flag the whole family at the kiosk.

The fix is mechanical and worth repeating for every card: read the on-screen format hint before you type, and where you can, pick the day, month, and year from the date picker rather than free-typing the slashes. The same trap applies to the shared arrival date, so check that once carefully and reuse the exact same entry on every family member’s card. Sanity-check each child’s birth date against their passport before you submit — if the screen shows a birthday that is not theirs, you have hit the trap.

Newborns and brand-new passports

A baby born shortly before the trip needs a US passport first, then a Cambodia eVisa, then an e-Arrival Card — in that order. The e-Arrival Card is the last step and the easiest of the three; once the infant passport exists, the card is just four identity fields copied off it plus the same shared trip block as everyone else. The no-upload rule applies to infants too, so there is no baby photo to wrangle for the card itself.

Mixed-passport families and traveling grandparents

If one parent or a child holds a non-US passport, that person still files their own card on their own passport — nationality follows the document, not the family. The same goes for a grandparent, aunt, or family friend traveling with you: every additional person is one more card, full stop. There is no per-family cap and no discount for filing several at once through the official route; each traveler is counted on their own. If you want to confirm the timing for the whole group, our guide to when to submit the e-Arrival Card and the 7-day window explains the window that applies to every card you file.

Putting it together before your family flies

Run a family headcount before you submit and again before you fly. Count the passports coming on the trip, count the cards you have filed, and confirm the two numbers match — that one check catches the single most common family mistake, the overlooked baby. Then for each child verify the name matches the passport exactly, the passport number has no transposed digits, the date of birth reads correctly in day-month-year, and the flight number and arrival date match the shared block you used for everyone. Passports counted, dates checked, QR codes labeled.

Keep the order of operations straight for the whole family. The full picture of the Cambodia visa for US citizens starts with the eVisa for every traveler — the big step you do first, weeks ahead, one per person. Apply online for each child and adult — Tourist $80 USD or Business $90 USD, each approved in 3 business days and delivered as a printable PDF by email. The e-Arrival Cards are the light step you do last, in the week before you fly. If you have not started the kids’ visas yet, the guide to the Cambodia eVisa for children and families walks the per-child application, and you can check each card afterward with our guide to the e-Arrival Card status and QR code check.

When you file verified e-Arrival Cards through us for $5 USD per person, every family member’s card is checked end-to-end before it reaches Cambodian Immigration — each child’s name against their passport, each birth date against the day-month-year layout that flags so many US travelers, and the shared flight details against your final leg. Nobody gets missed, and if Immigration flags a correction on any card there is no extra charge to fix it.

Next steps and related reading for US families: file a verified e-Arrival Card for every traveler once your flight is locked in, follow the field-by-field e-Arrival Card walkthrough if you want to see each screen, confirm the 7-day submission window that applies to the whole group, and check each card’s status and QR code before you fly.