Cambodia Visa from Pakistan

A Cambodian tourist visa, explained properly

Cambodia's visa is cheap and the paperwork is light. What makes this trip go wrong is almost never the application — it is geography and logistics: which entry point your visa actually works at, which border is open this month, and which embassy is even responsible for you.

This page leads with those, and it is also honest about one thing we could not establish.

Do you need a visa

Yes. Cambodia publishes a visa exemption list — around forty-odd entries, most of them ASEAN neighbours, and most of the non-ASEAN ones limited to diplomatic and official passports. Pakistan is not on it, in either version of the list the Ministry of Foreign Affairs currently publishes.

The three routes — and the mission nobody expects

Cambodia offers a tourist visa three ways: the e-Visa online, an application through a Cambodian diplomatic mission, and visa on arrival at entry points.

An important structural change underpins all three. Cambodian embassies no longer approve visas themselves. The Ministry states that even a visa applied for through a mission is "issued electronically… and approved by the e-Visa office in Phnom Penh (Embassies no longer approve visas directly)." Every route now runs through the same office.

One question we could not answer, and we are not going to pretend otherwise

You may have read that Cambodia's e-Visa excludes certain nationalities, and that Pakistan is among them. It is a claim that circulates widely on travel sites.

We could not verify it either way, and here is exactly why. No Cambodian government page we could reach publishes any nationality exclusion list — not the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, not its mission sites, not the immigration department. What the Ministry does say is that the e-Visa "allows travelers worldwide to apply for a Cambodia visa… from anywhere with internet access", presented as the first option with no nationality carve-out anywhere on the page. But the e-Visa portal itself sits behind a security system that refused every attempt to read it, so we could not test a Pakistani passport against the live form.

So we will not tell you Pakistan is excluded, and we will not tell you it is accepted. What we will tell you is the practical answer: the portal itself is the test, it takes two minutes to find out, and the mission route exists regardless. Send us your passport details and we will check it before you pay anything.

The only official domain is evisa.gov.kh, which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs links to directly and describes as "exclusively operated by the E-Visa Office within the Ministry… and not handled by Cambodian embassies abroad." Cambodia has a long-standing problem with copycat sites, so that domain is worth checking character by character.

What it costs

Two honest caveats on this table. Cambodia's own pages describe the tourist visa as single entry in one place while the Ministry's fee schedule sells multiple-entry tourist visas for one, two and three years — those two statements do not sit together comfortably, and we are showing you both rather than picking one. And individual missions add their own local surcharges: the Berlin embassy, for instance, charges a separate uploading fee. What the Ankara mission charges a Pakistani applicant is not published anywhere we could find.

On processing time the official sources also disagree: the Ministry's fee schedule says the e-Visa takes one day and a mission visa three days, while its visa types page says the tourist visa takes three working days. Plan on three. Cambodia adds, unusually bluntly, that "express or rush processing is strictly not available" — so nobody can sell you a faster Cambodian visa.

Source and date. Fees from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation's published service fee schedule, read 11 October 2026. These are Cambodian government fees paid to the Cambodian authorities, not to Breeze, and Cambodia can change them without notice. Our own charge is quoted separately.

Where the e-Visa actually works

This is the detail that strands people, and Cambodia states it plainly: "not all entry points accept e-Visas."

The e-Visa is accepted at:

• Phnom Penh International Airport
• Siem Reap Angkor International Airport
• Sihanoukville International Airport — but not for cruise ship arrivals
• Bavet land crossing, Svay Rieng province — the Ho Chi Minh City route
• Tropaeng Kreal Border Post, Stung Treng province — the Laos route

Other crossings that are open — Kaoam Samnor, Phnom Den, Trapaing Sre, Dong Kralo among them — are explicitly listed as open, but does not support e-Visa entry. Arriving at one of those with only an e-Visa is a problem you cannot solve at the counter.

If you are flying into Phnom Penh or Siem Reap, none of this touches you. If Cambodia is one leg of an overland Southeast Asia trip, it decides your whole routing.

The Thai land border is closed

Documents

The official supporting documents for a tourist visa are short: flight ticket and/or hotel booking. Applying through a mission by email adds a completed and signed application form, a clear scan of the passport biographical page with a legible machine-readable zone, a round-trip flight booking, proof of accommodation and proof of payment.

What Cambodia does not publish, and what we will therefore not invent:

• No minimum funds or bank balance figure appears on any Cambodian government source.
• No passport validity figure is published for a tourist visa. Six months is the sensible regional default and is what we would advise, but it is advice, not a Cambodian rule we can cite.
• No photo specification is published outside the portal, which we could not read.
• No separate document list for salaried, self-employed, retired or student applicants. One list covers everyone. The only employment-related note in Cambodia's material is that the business visa "is also suitable for retired foreigners who wish to stay in Cambodia for an extended period" — which is about long stays, not about a retiree's tourist file.
• No travel insurance requirement is mentioned anywhere official.

Invitation letters are required only for NGO and business visas. A tourist does not need one.

The e-Arrival card

Cambodia has merged its immigration, health and customs arrival forms into one digital submission at arrival.gov.kh, linked from the immigration department's own site.

• Free. The Ministry answers the question directly: "Is There a Fee for the Cambodia e-Arrival? No. The e-Arrival system is free via the official website or mobile application."
• Submit within seven days before arrival, including the day of arrival. You receive a QR code, and it can be edited until it is scanned.
• It is not a visa. Cambodia spells this out: you still need the e-Arrival even if you already hold a valid Cambodian visa.

Two honest notes. Cambodia's immigration department says "all travelers" while the Ministry's FAQ says that for now it applies only to foreign travellers arriving by air — two official sources, two different scopes. And although the paper form is described as "set to be discontinued soon", the official language around e-Arrival is still permissive ("can submit") rather than mandatory, so we are not going to call it compulsory when Cambodia has not. Fill it in regardless: it is free and it saves time at the counter.

Rules people miss

• A tourist visa can be extended once. Only once. Cambodia's visa types page is explicit about the contrast: the tourist visa is "extendable (once)" while the business visa is "extendable (multiple options)". If you are planning more than a month or two in Cambodia, the tourist visa is the wrong instrument and it is worth knowing before you arrive. Extension fees are not published, so we will not quote one.
• Visa stickers are gone. Cambodia states that "visa stickers will no longer be placed in passport books. This applies to all types of visas." Your visa is digital — print it and carry the print. The exception is visa on arrival, where travellers still go to the counter, obtain a sticker and pay there, in US dollars cash.
• Validity and stay are different things, as everywhere: "All our visa types are valid for three months, meaning you can enter Cambodia on any day within that three-month period starting from the issue date." Your 30 days of stay begin when you enter.
• Overstay fines: Cambodia charges a published daily fine, but we could not source the current figure from any Cambodian government page, so we are not printing a number. Treat overstaying as expensive and avoid it.

How we prepare your file

Cambodia is a cheap visa attached to an itinerary that can go badly wrong, so that is where our work sits.

First, we test the e-Visa route against your passport before anything is paid, so you get a real answer rather than the rumour that circulates about excluded nationalities. If it does not work, the mission route through Ankara is the fallback and we will tell you what that realistically involves rather than pretending it is quick.

Second, the routing: making sure your arrival point is one of the five that accept an e-Visa, and keeping you off a Thailand-Cambodia land crossing while those borders are shut. That single check is worth more than the visa fee.

Third, the trip itself — flights, Siem Reap and Phnom Penh arrangements, and the e-Arrival filed free three days out. Breeze Travels & Tours has worked on visa files from Davis Road, Garhi Shahu, since 2003, and flights are issued by the same desk on our own IATA accreditation — see air ticketing.