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Immigrant Alien Resident Card - Other Statutory Immigrant Basis

CambodiaLong-term residence

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What exact status does accumulated residence lead to?

The status is recognition as an immigrant alien, and Article 12 makes that recognition a decision of the Ministry of Interior taken by Proclamation (Prakas).

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  • Text taken from OCR of a scanned document: an OCR pass can alter a digit or a letter, so any figure quoted here has not been machine-verified against the printed original.
  • This is the English version, which the document itself labels '(UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION)'. The authentic text is the Khmer original in capturas/ea1c1b9069e3e7ae.txt.
  • Checked the Khmer original: Article 12 is present with the same substance - recognition of a foreigner as an immigrant alien is decided by Prakas of the Minister of Interior.
  • The Law does not treat this as an accumulated-residence route: nothing in it makes a period of prior residence the trigger for the Prakas.
  • The Resident-Card that evidences the status, and its two-year validity, are governed by Articles 14 and 21, which are different articles outside this citation.
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    ARTICLE 12 : - The recognition of any alien as an immigrant alien, shall be decided by a Procla (. Prakas) of the mation ministry of Interior.

What qualifying residence period is required and when does the period begin?

No qualifying residence period is required. This is the residual limb of Article 10: aliens who have not been included in any of the categories listed in Article 7 of the Law are considered immigrants, so membership is decided by exclusion from the non-immigrant list, not by time resident.

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  • Text taken from OCR of a scanned document: an OCR pass can alter a digit or a letter, so any figure quoted here has not been machine-verified against the printed original.
  • This is the English version, which the document itself labels '(UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION)'. The authentic text is the Khmer original in capturas/ea1c1b9069e3e7ae.txt.
  • Checked the Khmer original: the residual limb of Article 10 is present with the same substance.
  • Because the limb is defined negatively, its content depends entirely on Article 7's list of non-immigrant categories; the Law states no positive criterion for this cohort.
  • The Law sets no waiting period anywhere. The two-year figure in Article 21 is Resident-Card validity, not a qualifying period.
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    2. Those aliens who have: not been included in any of the categories as related in article 7 of this Law.

Which types of residence count fully, partially or not at all where the official rules specify this?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm which types of residence count towards the qualifying period.

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  • Looked for rules on which kinds of residence count towards this status. The Law imposes no qualifying period for it (see R2), so it states no counting rules. For this residual cohort specifically, Article 10(2) defines membership purely by not falling into any Article 7 category, which makes prior residence irrelevant to qualification; read Articles 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 21, 23 and 24 and none of them classifies or accumulates periods of residence.

What absence/continuity rules affect accumulation of the qualifying residence period?

The Law's continuity rule is a permission requirement, not a residence count: an immigrant alien who intends to leave Cambodia for a period must obtain permission to leave and to return from the Ministry of Interior, the stay abroad in principle not exceeding three months and extendable up to 6 months on reasonable grounds; returning later than permitted requires a fresh entry visa and the person is deemed a newly arrived immigrant alien.

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Limits of the record
  • Text taken from OCR of a scanned document: an OCR pass can alter a digit or a letter, so any figure quoted here has not been machine-verified against the printed original.
  • This is the English version, which the document itself labels '(UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION)'. The authentic text is the Khmer original in capturas/ea1c1b9069e3e7ae.txt.
  • Checked the Khmer original: Articles 23 and 24 are present with the same substance and the same figures - three months in principle, extendable up to six months on reasonable grounds, and a late return treated as a new immigrant alien requiring a fresh entry visa.
  • Articles 23 and 24 address immigrant aliens as a class and do not single out this residual limb of Article 10.
  • The fees for the exit and entry permits are left to a Sub-Decree that is not among the captures.
  • The Law does not say what happens to the Resident-Card during an authorised absence.
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    Article 23 : - Those immigrant aliens who intend to leave the Kingdom of Cambodia for some period of time, shall have to request for the permissions to leave and to return, from the Ministry of Interior. In principle, this period of stay in foreign countries shall not exceed three months. But this period may be extended up to 6 months upon there are reasonable grounds. The fees/taxes to be levied when delivering the exit and entry permits, shall be specified by a Sub-Decree. Article 24: - In case when the return is beyond the delay permitted, the concerned ‘person shall have to apply anew for an entry visa, and he/she ‘shall be Geened as a new immigrant alien who just come.

What other major conditions apply, how is the status obtained, and what renewal, document-validity, retention or loss rules matter?

The initial Resident-Card is valid for two years and may be applied for extension once every two years, the application being made before the authorities named in Article 14. A holder who fails to apply for a new card or for an extension after that period is considered to be staying illegally. The Ministry of Interior sets the administration, issue and application conditions by ministerial proclamation, and immigrant aliens pay fees for the issue of original Resident-Cards, duplicates or equivalent documents as specified in the Sub-Decree.

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Limits of the record
  • Text taken from OCR of a scanned document: an OCR pass can alter a digit or a letter, so any figure quoted here has not been machine-verified against the printed original.
  • This is the English version, which the document itself labels '(UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION)'. The authentic text is the Khmer original in capturas/ea1c1b9069e3e7ae.txt.
  • Checked the Khmer original: Article 21 is present with the same substance, including the initial validity of two years and renewal every two years, written out in words rather than numerals.
  • The two-year figures come from an OCR'd scan and have not been verified against a clean printed copy.
  • This is the validity of the card, which the Law does not equate with permanence of the underlying immigrant-alien status; the status itself ends only by Prakas under Article 16, which also governs withdrawal of the card and the seven-day departure that follows, and is outside this citation.
  • The sub-decree fixing the fees is not among the captures.
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    Article 21: ~ The initial Resident-~Card granted, shall be valid for a period of two years, and may be applied for extension once every two years. The filling of the application forms for new Resident-Cards or for the extension thereof, are to be done in front of the authorities as specified in ‘Article 14 of this law. If over this above period, the holders of the ‘Resident-Cards 299 who.‘failed to apply’ for new resident- cards, or for thé> extension thereof, shall then be considered as staying in-an illegal conditions: ‘The Ministry of Interior shall specify by a ministerial proclamation, of the actions to be taken relating. to the administration , the issuance of the Resident- Cards, and ‘the applications and - the conditions to be applied in this field. Immigrant aliens shall pay fees/taxes for the issuance of the original Resident-Cards or duplicates or equivalent documents in conformity with what specified in the Sub-Decree.

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

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