How to Apply for Vietnam Visa From Cambodia: Steps, Timing and Payment

How to apply for Vietnam visa from Cambodia only matters when you plan to stay longer than 30 days, because Cambodian citizens with an ordinary passport enter Vietnam without a visa for up to 30 days. For a longer stay you apply online for the e-visa, valid for up to 90 days, pay by card, upload a passport page and a photo, and receive a PDF by email. This page covers when you need it, the steps, what to prepare, timing in Phnom Penh time, paying from Cambodia and mistakes to avoid. For prices in Cambodian riel and the full cut-off table, see our guide to the Vietnam visa for Cambodian citizens. If your plans go beyond the exemption, you can apply for your e-visa.

eVisaVietnam.com is a private visa service operated by TK VIET NAM., JSC, not the Vietnamese government. You can apply yourself at evisa.gov.vn for US$25.

How to apply from Cambodia at a glance:

How to apply for Vietnam visa from Cambodia

Decide first whether you need to apply. Ordinary-passport holders from Cambodia may stay up to 30 days without a visa, as our guide for Cambodian citizens explains, so a visa from Cambodia to Vietnam is needed only for a stay longer than 30 days.

If that is your case, you apply in five steps with us:

1. Fill in the form: Enter your passport details, trip dates, entry gate and the speed you want. The price and the delivery time update as you choose.
2. Pay by card: Pay in US dollars. The price at checkout is the price we charge.
3. Upload your files: Add the passport data page and the portrait photo. You can upload any time after paying.
4. We check and submit: A person looks at the photo and scan, and contacts you if a file has a problem, before submitting on evisa.gov.vn.
5. Receive the PDF: The approved e-visa arrives by email. Check your name and passport number against your passport, and print one copy.

You can also apply yourself on evisa.gov.vn; our guide on how to apply covers that route screen by screen. To follow an order with us, use the e-visa status tool.

What to prepare in Cambodia

A Vietnam e-visa application from Cambodia needs four things ready:

• A Cambodian passport: Valid for at least 6 months from your entry date, with two blank pages.
• A data page image: The page with your photo, all four corners in view, and the two code lines at the bottom sharp, without glare.
• A portrait photo: Recent, facing the camera, white background, no glasses. The photo requirements guide shows examples that pass and fail.
• A card and an emergency contact: A card enabled for online payments to a foreign merchant, and the name, address and phone of a contact at home.

Copy your name from the two code lines at the bottom of the data page, in capital letters, including middle names.

When to apply from Cambodia

Apply at least two weeks before you fly if you choose Standard, because 5 to 7 working days can stretch over weekends and Vietnamese public holidays. Phnom Penh is 0 minutes behind Vietnam. Neither country changes its clocks, so the conversion never changes.

For Same day delivery, order between 8:00 and 14:15 in Phnom Penh, on a day that is a working day in Vietnam. Because the clocks match, the Vietnamese cut-offs apply on your watch unchanged, and a morning order keeps every speed open. Our guide for Cambodian citizens has the full table of cut-offs, and the urgent e-visa page covers every speed.

Paying for your e-visa from Cambodia

You pay in US dollars by credit or debit card. A Standard single-entry e-visa costs $47, about KHR 190,320, government fee included.

Figures use 1 USD = 4,049.35 KHR (xe.com, October 10, 2026). Your card is charged in US dollars; your bank converts the amount into Cambodian riel at its own rate, so your statement can differ from the figure here. See the full price table for every speed.

On evisa.gov.vn the government fee alone is US$25 (approx. KHR 101,234).

Mistakes Cambodian applicants make

Most problems come from a few mistakes:

• Applying when you do not need to: For 30 days or less, no visa is needed. You still need a valid passport.
• Not planning a longer stay: A stay beyond 30 days must be arranged before you fly. If you are already in Vietnam, see our visa extension page.
• Name the gate you will use: Many Cambodian travelers cross by road. If you apply for an e-visa, name the entry gate you will really use, because the e-visa is valid only at the gates you list, out of 26 land border gates.
• A look-alike website: The government site is evisa.gov.vn. Private services, including ours, say that they are private.
• A gate you will not use: Choose the airport or border gate you will really enter through, and check the ports of entry list.

If you already filed a faulty application, read about e-visa problems first. Ready? Apply for your e-visa and a person checks your files before they go in.