Cambodia Visa Extension Cost in 2026: What Changed for Americans

For most US tourists, re-applying is the new "extension"

Here is the move that replaces the old extension for nearly every American tourist: you re-apply for a new Tourist eVisa. There is no in-country paperwork, no immigration-office queue, and no haggling with a local fixer over a fee. You apply online for a fresh Type-T exactly the way you did the first time, and the cost is the same fixed, all-in number every time.

A new Tourist eVisa is $80 USD all-in, approved in 3 business days, and delivered as a printable PDF by email. That is the real 2026 cost of getting a second stay in Cambodia as a tourist — not a discounted extension fee, but a clean second eVisa at the standard price. Because the tourist visa is single entry, the practical rhythm is: finish your 30 days, leave Cambodia, apply for the next eVisa, and come back when it is approved. You cannot stack a second 30 days on top of the first without an exit in between.

The timing matters here. The eVisa is approved in 3 business days, so if you know before you fly out that you want to return, you can apply while you are still abroad and have the approval PDF in your inbox well before your next entry. What you should not do is wait until you are at the border trying to sort it out — there is no tourist visa-on-arrival path to count on, and the land borders that Americans once used for a quick hop out and back are a separate problem in 2026, covered below.

The one visa that can still be extended: the Business eVisa

If your trip genuinely needs more than 30 continuous days in Cambodia, do not start with the tourist visa and hope to stretch it — that path closed in November 2025. Start with the Business eVisa (Type-E). It is the only Cambodia visa that can still be extended from inside the country, and it is the right tool for anyone whose trip is too long, or too open-ended, for a single 30-day tourist stay.

The Business eVisa is $90 USD all-in, approved in 3 business days, and delivered as a printable PDF by email — the same light application as the tourist visa, just the business class. Once you are in Cambodia on a Type-E, the in-country extension is arranged on the ground through a local immigration process, in durations that run from one month up to a year. The extension fee for the Type-E is paid in-country and depends on the length you choose, so it sits outside the fixed online price — but the key point for planning is simply that the option exists for the business class and does not exist for the tourist class.

The decision is about purpose and length, not about trying to game a cheaper number. A short leisure trip is a tourist visa, and a second short trip is a second tourist visa. A long stay — a multi-month consulting engagement, an extended family stay, a slow-travel run that you want to keep continuous without flying out and back — is the business class from the start. Our guide to the Cambodia Business eVisa (Type-E) for US citizens covers what it allows and how the in-country extension works once you are there.

Re-apply vs extend: the math for American travelers

For Americans the choice almost always comes down to one of three patterns, and the cost falls out of the pattern rather than from any clever discount. Pick the pattern that matches your actual trip and the number is decided.

• One trip, 30 days or less: a single Tourist eVisa at $80 USD all-in covers it. No extension, no second visa, nothing further to do.
• Two separate trips inside the 3-month window: two Tourist eVisas, $80 USD each, because the tourist visa is single entry and is spent the moment you leave Cambodia. The second one is simply re-applied online while you are abroad.
• One long continuous stay over 30 days: the Business eVisa (Type-E) at $90 USD all-in, then an in-country extension arranged on the ground. This is cheaper and cleaner than trying to stitch tourist visas together across borders for a single long stay.

The trap to avoid is treating a long single stay as a string of tourist visas. Because the Type-T is single entry, every extra month would mean leaving Cambodia, re-applying, and coming back — and in 2026 that exit-and-return is harder than it used to be, because all seven Thailand–Cambodia land borders have been closed since June 2025, so the old quick overland hop out and back is not available. If you are weighing one long stay against several short ones, our guide to how long US citizens can stay in Cambodia lays out the limits that drive the decision.

One more practical note on re-applying: because the Tourist eVisa is valid for 3 months from its issue date, you have flexibility on when the second visa kicks in. Apply when your return dates are firm rather than the moment you land for the first trip — a visa issued too early can expire before a delayed return. The 3-business-day approval is fast enough that you never need to apply far ahead.

What overstaying costs — and why it is never the cheap option

Some American travelers, hearing that the cheap extension is gone, wonder whether it is simpler to just overstay a few days and pay the fine on the way out. It is not the cheap option, and it is not the simple one either. Cambodia charges a daily overstay fine, payable at the airport when you leave, and it stacks up for every day past your 30-day stay. A short overstay is an annoyance; a long one becomes expensive fast.

The bigger cost is not the fine itself — it is what an overstay record can do to your next trip. An overstay flag can mean extra questions at re-entry, delays at the counter, and in stubborn cases a harder time getting your next eVisa cleanly. For the returning travelers our desk works with most, a clean entry-and-exit history is worth far more than the few dollars an overstay might appear to save. The fresh $80 eVisa is the predictable, paper-clean path; the overstay is the unpredictable one.

If you are even slightly unsure whether your dates fit inside 30 days, plan the second eVisa or the business class before you travel rather than rolling the dice at the airport. Our guide to Cambodia visa overstay fines for US citizens breaks down how the daily charge works and what it can mean for a future entry, so you can compare the real numbers rather than guessing.

Putting the 2026 extension math together

Here is the whole picture in one place. The cheap tourist extension ended in November 2025 and is not coming back. A Tourist eVisa is a hard 30-day single-entry stay — when it is up, you leave or re-apply for a fresh one at $80 USD all-in, approved in 3 business days, delivered as a printable PDF by email. If your trip needs more than 30 continuous days, the Business eVisa at $90 USD all-in is the only class that can still be extended from inside Cambodia. And single-entry rules mean a second trip is a second eVisa, which our guide to single vs multiple entry visas for Americans explains in full.

One reminder that sits alongside any of these paths: the Cambodia e-Arrival Card is a separate, mandatory step for every air arrival, and it applies to every entry — including the second one if you re-apply and come back. It is a short online form of 14 fields, submitted within the 7 days before you fly. The visa says you may enter; the e-Arrival Card is the arrival declaration the kiosk wants to see. File both on every trip. If you want the all-in pricing across every visa type laid out together, the Cambodia visa cost guide for Americans is the reference to bookmark.

Next steps and related reading for Americans: apply for your Cambodia eVisa when your dates are firm, check whether you can still extend a Cambodia tourist visa for the full background on the November 2025 change, and bookmark our Cambodia visa hub for United States citizens as the single reference for cost, documents, and processing.