Visas and border crossings forum

Actally the line is quite long, and there is a bit of waiting to geth the visa on arrival, and it is much more cinvenient having the e-visa when you arrive. However if you would like to save 5 USD, get it on arrival.. Its only amatter of savung time really...

Thank you very much, kristinholdo and rakhee2108.

I have decided to use the On Arrival option this time to see how it is like, since I am not rushing for time. On top, I've another trip next year going to Siem Reap, so I might be using e-Visa next time.

I'll report back on how it goes after my trip.

what about crossing overland from Laos? Is it much faster to have the e-visa?

I really don't know about e-visa, I've not tried it yet, but if you have plenty of time in Thailand why don't you go to the Cambodian embassy in Bangkok for the visa. It also costs the same, $20, or a little more for express one. If you go to the Thai-Cambodian border without already having a visa, people there including the officers will try to charge at least 1,200 THB. I once paid 1,500 TBH

What a scam!

The easiest thing to do is grab your gear and run like hell off the plane and be first in line. The visa officers are really relaxed and they asked for the 20$ and ten minutes later after 8 people looked at my visa I was in and heading to my guesthouse.

Posted from within Vietnam.

The whole e-visa thing is a bit confusing. One website (number 2 on google search) says the service has been hijacked (which I thought strange!) and is now unreliable - see www.cambodiaevisa.com/. There is heaps of 'feedback' around on the net to back them up that I've seen (but you never know who posts this. Here's where it get's interesting. They have a screenshot from wiki travel backing this up but now on wiki travel http://wikitravel.org/en/Cambodia this info has been replaced by other info saying it's all good. It's not a page that's locked down for editing either although for the life of me I can't find the change history? I think I'll try my chances at the border.

p.s. Travelfish visa section is silent on the issue http://www.travelfish.org/cambodia-visas.php

Came through the Moc-Bai Border (Vietnam/Cambodia) yesterday. No worries getting the visa at the border. You can let the bus staff do it for you ($25) or do it yourself for $20. It was easy..getting out of Vietnam took ages, much longer than getting in to Cambodia. How long does it take to exit stamp a passport? They'd have each one for several minutes (and there was a lot of people to process)! One couple we chatted to got the e-visa no worries, they were held up at the Cambodian border for a lot longer than us but got through. They said they got the e-visa with in a 24 turn around but they also knew someone who had issues.

Hey guys - anyone out there who has recently used the e visa system? I checked it out a few weeks back and since then, the site seems to have changed and it looks more kosher than it did back then... i.e it doesn;t talk about the scam as it did before (the blog with the screenshots etc).

Has anyone applied and recieved an evisa recently and successfully?

Cheers

Hey tails101 - if you remember, please let me know how you got on - we leave 16th October for Thailand... and will be in Cambodia mid November..

Cheers

Hi people - I have processed my e visa - seemed to go smoothly. Says I can download my approval certificate but doesn't seem to have that option in check and change - will this appear soon? I only just applied for it and although it says visa status is approved it says that it is also pending. I guess I just have to check in a couple of days and then print of the approval certificate?

jojow25 - I'll deffinitely let you know how I got on...

Also, hopefully by now your visa will have moved to approved in both payment and visa status and the check'n'change facility will have become active along with the option to download your visa as a PDF file.

Enjoy your trip - I'm only off for 2 weeks, how I miss the months of travelling!

Spartan... I believe the only compulsary fields in the visa application is date of entry, although I could be wrong. The system has the option to allow you to change these as and when you know more via the check'n'change page. With regards to address, if it is compulsary, just enter the first town you'll be visiting and if you want a pick a hotel at random! I know for a fact I had no clue where I was staying when I got my first Cambodian visa years ago and had no issues!

For the place I was staying I just entered 'Hotel' lol Seemed to go through ok and I am now in possession of a valid looking visa which you have to print two of - one for entry - one for departure.

Hey guys - we made it through with the evisa at pp airport.. the only problem was that their computer wasn't working, but changed to another counter and all was good. Irony has it that because the computer wasn't working, it meant that i had qued for a while and therefore the last person to go through to collect my bags haha.. so I paid $5 for not so much convenience... all good tho.

Wheeladventure#5 Posted: 27/9/2008 - 00:58

i got a visa on arrival at the siem reap airport. the line was short and the cost was $20 USD. the process took less than 10 minutes, including the line. but, i arrived at night. to depart, it cost me $25.

???? maybe I missed something, but i thought you only paid to enter not leave?? I/m going to apply for the E visa and on the site its says you need 2 copies 1 in and 1 out for $25 .( for feb 2010)
Can anybody wise me up ??