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ASEAN Ordinary-Passport Visa-Exempt Entry

CambodiaShort stays and visits

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For the relevant traveller scope, is a visa, electronic authorisation, visa on arrival or no advance visa normally required?

No advance visa is normally required: travellers from ASEAN member countries holding a valid national passport are exempt from needing a visa for Cambodia.

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Limits of the record
  • The CDC Handbook on Investing in Cambodia is explanatory investment-promotion material published by the Council for the Development of Cambodia, not the immigration law and not an MFAIC visa notice.
  • The sentence says 'valid national passport', not 'ordinary passport'. It does not distinguish passport classes, so the route's own name is narrower than what the source states.
  • It does not name which ASEAN member states are covered. The MFAIC e-Visa page separately lists nine exempt countries (Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam, Myanmar) but prints that list as a 'Visa Exemption' row inside the Tourist Visa table and never calls it the ASEAN exemption.
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    ASEAN member countries traveling with a valid national passport are exempt from needing a visa in Cambodia for a period of 14 to 30 days.

What short-visit purposes does this route cover?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm the visit purposes this route covers.

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Limits of the record
  • Looked for a stated permitted purpose for the ASEAN visa exemption. The handbook sentence states only who is exempt and for how long; it names no purpose. On the MFAIC e-Visa page the nine-country 'Visa Exemption' row sits inside the Visa T (Tourist Visa) table, but the page never says the exemption is limited to tourism - reading a purpose out of the table's layout would be inferring it from page structure, not from a statement.

What maximum stay, rolling-period rule, validity and entry rules apply?

The visa-free stay is stated as a period of 14 to 30 days. The official source does not state the number of entries or any rolling-period rule.

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Limits of the record
  • The CDC Handbook on Investing in Cambodia is explanatory investment-promotion material published by the Council for the Development of Cambodia, not the immigration law and not an MFAIC visa notice.
  • The handbook gives a 14-to-30-day range without saying which ASEAN member state gets 14 days and which gets 30; the per-country breakdown is not in any capture.
  • No number of entries and no rolling-period or cumulative-stay rule is stated.
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    ASEAN member countries traveling with a valid national passport are exempt from needing a visa in Cambodia for a period of 14 to 30 days.

What important funds, accommodation, invitation, insurance, onward-travel or passport evidence may be required?

The traveller must be travelling on a valid national passport of an ASEAN member country. The official source does not state any funds, accommodation, invitation, insurance or onward-travel evidence for the exemption.

See recorded sources
Limits of the record
  • The CDC Handbook on Investing in Cambodia is explanatory investment-promotion material published by the Council for the Development of Cambodia, not the immigration law and not an MFAIC visa notice.
  • No funds, accommodation, invitation, insurance or onward-travel requirement is stated for the ASEAN exemption in any of the six captures. Absence from this source is not proof that none applies at the border.
  • The sentence states no minimum remaining passport validity. The e-Visa page states a six-month passport-validity rule, but states it for Visa T and Visa E applicants, not for visa-exempt ASEAN travellers.
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    ASEAN member countries traveling with a valid national passport are exempt from needing a visa in Cambodia for a period of 14 to 30 days.

Where/how is permission obtained when required, and under what important circumstances can a stay be extended or changed?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm where to apply and when a stay can be extended or changed.

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Limits of the record
  • Looked for how a visa-exempt ASEAN traveller extends or changes a stay. The handbook's 'Extension of Stay (EOS)' text sits inside the E-CLASS (ordinary visa) row and describes renewing an e-Visa at the Cambodian Immigration Department, so it is about visa holders, not about visa-exempt entrants. The e-Visa portal capture describes applications for Visa T, E, A, B and C and says nothing about extending a visa-free stay. The 1994 Law on Immigration has no ASEAN provision.

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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