You picked Business when you meant Tourist, or the reverse. Take a breath — this is one of the most fixable mistakes in the whole Cambodia eVisa process. Here is exactly what US citizens do next, what costs money, and what does not.
If you have not submitted or paid yet, just go back into the form and change the visa type — there is no charge and nothing to correct. If you have already submitted and paid, contact support before doing anything else, because the Tourist eVisa ($80 USD) and Business eVisa ($90 USD) share most of the same applicant data, and the type can frequently be corrected before approval rather than reapplied from scratch. Do not start a second application on your own, do not cancel your flight, and do not assume the money is lost. The most common version of this mistake — Tourist when you needed Business, or the reverse — is one of the most fixable issues in the whole process, especially if you reach out inside the 3-business-day approval window.
You went through the form, paid, got your confirmation — and only then realized the radio button said Business when your trip is pure vacation, or Tourist when you are flying out for a week of client meetings. That sinking feeling is normal, and it is also misplaced. Of all the things that can go sideways with a Cambodia eVisa, picking the wrong visa type is near the top of the fixable list.
Here is why. The Tourist eVisa and the Business eVisa are not two completely different applications. They collect almost identical information — your passport, your photo, your bio-page scan, your intended entry point — and they run on the same 3-business-day approval timeline. The visa type is essentially one field sitting on top of an otherwise shared file. That is very different from, say, a misspelled name in the machine-readable zone, which Cambodian Immigration treats as a hard mismatch.
This guide walks through exactly what to do at each stage — caught it before you paid, caught it after you paid, or caught it after the visa was already approved — plus how to pick the right type with confidence so it never happens again. If you are still deciding which one you actually need, our which Cambodia visa do I need guide and the Tourist vs Business comparison settle it in a couple of minutes.
If you have not yet completed payment, you are not actually in trouble at all — there is nothing to fix, only something to change. An application that has not been paid for has not been submitted to Cambodian Immigration. It is still a draft sitting in front of you, and the visa type is just a selection you can edit.
Go back to the visa-type step of the form and switch your selection from Tourist to Business, or Business to Tourist. Confirm the price updates to match — $80 USD all-in for the Tourist eVisa, $90 USD all-in for the Business eVisa — then continue to payment. Nothing else in your application needs to change. Your passport details, photo, and entry point carry over exactly as you entered them, because those fields are identical across both types.
That is the whole fix. Most Americans who catch the mistake here are surprised it took under a minute. If anything about the form is not letting you change the type before payment, that is a sign to pause and reach out to support rather than starting a brand-new application — duplicate applications are the one thing that genuinely complicates the picture later.
This is the situation most people are in when they search for help — submitted, paid, confirmation email in hand, and then the realization lands. The single most important thing here is what NOT to do. Do not open a second application and pay again to get the other type. Do not cancel your flight. Do not assume the first payment is gone. Two paid applications under one passport is exactly the kind of duplicate flag that slows everything down.
Instead, contact support right away and tell them you selected the wrong visa type. Because the Tourist and Business eVisas share most of their underlying data, the type can frequently be corrected on the existing file before it reaches Immigration for approval — particularly if you reach out early inside the 3-business-day window. If you originally chose Tourist and need Business, there may be a small difference to settle ($80 USD versus $90 USD); going the other way is handled the same way through support. The same channel handles wrong information of any kind, so if you also spotted a typo, flag it in the same message.
When you reapply on your own, you create a second record tied to the same passport number. Cambodian Immigration reads two live applications for one traveler as a potential duplicate, which can stall both. When support corrects the existing file instead, there is only ever one clean record in the queue. That keeps your 3-business-day clock intact and means your approved PDF lands in your inbox without a tangle to unwind first.
Timing matters, but not in a way that should make you anxious. The earlier in the 3-business-day window you raise it, the more straightforward the correction. Even if you are partway through, reaching out is still the right move — it is far easier to adjust a file that has not been approved than to deal with an approved visa for the wrong purpose.
Less convenient, but still not a crisis. Once an eVisa is approved and the PDF is in your inbox, the type is locked to that document — you cannot edit an issued visa. What you can do depends on which direction the mistake went and what your trip actually involves.
If you were approved for a Tourist eVisa but your trip is genuinely leisure — sightseeing, visiting friends, a beach week in Sihanoukville — and you only worried you needed Business, the good news may be that you do not need to do anything. A standard 30-day leisure trip is exactly what the Tourist eVisa is for. The reverse is also forgiving in one direction: an approved Business eVisa is perfectly valid for a leisure trip too, so if you over-selected Business "to be safe," you are covered, you simply paid $10 more than the minimum.
The case that needs action is an approved Tourist eVisa when your trip truly requires Business — paid work, an extended stay you intend to push past 30 days, or activity that should sit under the ordinary E-class. Here, the cleanest path is usually a fresh Business eVisa for the correct purpose, and the type difference matters because Business is the only Cambodia visa you can extend in-country. Our guide on converting a Tourist visa to Business explains why you cannot simply swap an issued document and what the Business visa unlocks once you arrive.
Whichever direction you are in, contact support before you act. They can tell you fast whether your approved visa already covers your trip — saving you an unnecessary second application — or confirm that a fresh one for the correct type is the right call. Do not try to use a Tourist eVisa for clear paid work on the theory that "Immigration probably will not check," and do not let an approved-but-wrong visa sit unexamined until you are at the airport. A two-minute message now is far cheaper than a redirect at the gate.
Almost every wrong-type mistake comes from one assumption: that "Business" means a suit, a corporate sponsor, and a formal invitation letter, while "Tourist" means everything else. That is not how Cambodia draws the line. The deciding question is the purpose of your trip and how long you intend to stay — not how formal it looks.
When you genuinely cannot decide, Business is the safer default. It costs $10 more ($90 USD versus $80 USD), but it covers leisure activity too, and it gives you the in-country extension option that the Tourist eVisa does not. Spending the extra $10 to keep your options open is almost always cheaper than discovering at the airport that your Tourist visa does not fit the trip. The Type-T vs Type-E breakdown maps the official visa codes to these plain-English choices if you want the full picture.
It helps to separate a wrong visa type from the other things people worry about, because they are handled very differently. A wrong type is a clean, single-field issue on a shared application — usually correctable before approval. A misspelled name, a wrong passport number, or a date-of-birth typo is a data mismatch that Cambodian Immigration checks against your physical passport, so those carry more weight and need to be exactly right.
The reassuring part is that none of this costs you the safety net you paid for. If a correction is needed and Immigration flags anything, resubmission is free — you are not buying a whole new visa to fix a selection. The all-in price already covers the printable PDF, the 3-business-day approval, free resubmission if Immigration flags a correction, and US-timezone support to walk you through it. That is the entire point of applying through a managed service rather than wrestling a raw form alone.
One thing a visa-type mix-up never touches: your e-Arrival Card. The e-Arrival is a completely separate document from the visa — 14 fields covering your flight and arrival details, filed within 7 days before you fly, and $5 USD verified through us. It does not ask which visa type you hold, so a Tourist-versus-Business correction has zero effect on it. If you have not started it yet, the e-Arrival walkthrough covers every field, and the wrong-information guide handles any other typo you spot along the way.
Not paid yet? Change the type in the form — it is free and takes a minute. Paid but not approved? Contact support before anything else; the type can usually be corrected on the existing file, so do not reapply or rebook. Already approved? Check whether your visa actually covers the trip before assuming you need a new one — an approved Business eVisa works for leisure, and a Tourist eVisa is fine for a standard 30-day vacation. The only case that reliably needs a fresh visa is a Tourist approval when your trip genuinely requires Business.
Next steps and related reading for US travelers: when you are ready, apply for your Cambodia eVisa with the correct type selected, confirm your choice with the which Cambodia visa do I need guide, double-check the Tourist vs Business differences, and read the converting Tourist to Business guide if you need to switch after an approval. For the full picture, our complete guide to the Cambodia visa for US citizens ties every step together. Reach out to support the moment something looks off — a quick message before approval is always the cheapest fix.
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