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Coverage 07 Oct 2026 · 4 min read

Cambodia Stops Issuing Passport Visa Stickers at Its Embassies and Consulates: Pre-Arranged Visas Move to e-Visa

From 3 October 2026, Cambodian embassies and consulates no longer issue passport visa stickers. Pre-arranged visas go through the official e-Visa portal. What OTAs, tour operators and airlines should change.

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Loris Mazloum
Founder, SimpleVisa
A closed passport with a blank rectangle where a sticker sat, beside a small green card
The sticker window is closed. The pre-arranged visa is a file. Illustration: SimpleVisa

Cambodia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MFAIC) has directed all overseas embassies and consulates to stop issuing visa stickers in passports, effective Saturday 3 October 2026. The Royal Cambodian Honorary Consulate in Osaka published the notice on 4 October. It asks all applicants, including individual travelers and travel agencies, to apply through the official e-Visa portal at evisa.gov.kh, and says processing takes about 5 to 7 working days.

The notice adds two details. Consulates in Osaka, Fukuoka and elsewhere no longer accept or issue paper visas at the counter. The Embassy in Tokyo has also stopped stickers, but still accepts e-Visa applications at its counter. Other missions may offer similar counter help; check before you route a customer there.

This note is for OTAs, tour operators and airlines. It is not legal advice. Cambodian authorities decide on visas and entry.

Point Status
Visa stickers at all overseas missions Stopped from 3 Oct 2026 (MFAIC directive)
Pre-arranged visa route e-Visa, evisa.gov.kh
Processing time stated About 5–7 working days
Counter help for e-Visa Tokyo embassy confirmed; others to check
Visa on arrival at Cambodian entry points Not addressed in the notice

What OTAs and tour operators should do

01

Remove "embassy sticker visa" options from Cambodia booking flows, group-visa workflows and agency instructions.

02

Plan lead time. Five to seven working days means late bookings need the e-Visa started immediately.

03

Groups and agency batches. Agencies that used to batch passports at a consulate now need one e-Visa per traveler. Budget the data-entry time.

04

Only use the official portal. Point customers to evisa.gov.kh and warn against look-alike sites.

What airlines should know

Passengers with a pre-arranged Cambodian visa will now usually carry an e-Visa printout or PDF. Brief check-in staff on Cambodia routes so they don't treat a missing sticker as missing documentation.
Valid stickers issued before 3 October should still be presented as usual. The notice concerns issuance, not cancellation of existing visas.
The notice does not say anything about visa on arrival. Don't change visa-on-arrival rules on the strength of this notice.

What we have not verified

The full MFAIC directive text (we read it via the Osaka honorary consulate notice).
Whether every mission offers counter-assisted e-Visa applications like Tokyo.
Whether the e-Visa portal has added visa categories previously available only as stickers.

A consulate notice changed how agencies get Cambodian visas. Coverage alerts send one email per change. Where a requirements feed stops and a filing channel starts is in Timatic and modern visa APIs.

Watch Cambodia

Coverage alerts send one email per rule change for the destinations you pick, from the partner console. Systems can take the same events as webhooks; the shape is in the developer docs. The live requirement for any passport is always in the requirements checker.

Information for travel businesses, not legal advice. Cambodian authorities decide on visas and entry.

Sources

Royal Cambodian Honorary Consulate in Osaka, notice of 4 Oct 2026 verified 7 Oct 2026 · evisa.gov.kh verified 7 Oct 2026

LM
Loris Mazloum
Founder, SimpleVisa

Loris Mazloum founded SimpleVisa and writes the coverage notes on this blog for airlines, OTAs, and other travel companies. Each note is checked against the government source named at the bottom before it publishes. SimpleVisa keeps requirement data for 190+ destinations and files applications where a government channel exists.

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