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Adjacent-Border Resident Crossing Permission

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?

This is a standing border-crossing permission rather than an ordinary visa: Article 7(6) of the 1994 Law on Immigration classes as non-immigrant aliens foreigners living along the borders adjoining Cambodia's provinces who have received permission to cross the border repeatedly, or on a single occasion. The Law does not set the conditions itself; it refers them to a Sub-Decree.

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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 7 point 6 is present and carries the same substance - foreigners residing along the borders adjoining Cambodia's provinces who have received permission to cross repeatedly or occasionally, with the conditions left to a sub-decree.
  • The Sub-Decree that Article 7(6) says will set the conditions for this permission is not among the captures, so which border populations qualify and how the permission is granted remain unstated.
  • The Law does not say whether this permission replaces the advance incoming visa that Article 8(1) requires of non-immigrant aliens generally, or is held in addition to it.
  • chars 6508-6848
    6. Foreigners who are living along the borders connecting with the provinces of the Kingdom of | Cambodia, who have received permissions to cross the border for several.times, or. for instantly. Conditions for the / application of this paragraph 6 of the article 7, shall be specified by.a Sub-Decree.

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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  • Looked for a stated purpose for border-resident crossings. Article 7(6) describes only who the person is (a foreigner living along a border adjoining a Cambodian province) and the form of the permission (repeated or single crossings); it attaches no purpose such as trade, family, work or market visits, and defers all conditions to a Sub-Decree that is not captured. Article 7's other points do state purposes for their own categories - transit at 7(3), tourism at 7(4), business at 7(5), fishing at 7(8) - which makes the silence at 7(6) a feature of the provision rather than an OCR loss.

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

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm the maximum stay, validity and entry rules.

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Limits of the record
  • Looked for a maximum stay for border-resident crossings. Article 7 sets an express limit for other categories in the same list - not more than one week for transit at 7(3), and not over 3 months extendable by up to 3 more months for business visitors at 7(5) - but attaches no duration to 7(6), leaving it to the Sub-Decree. No duration for this category appears in the CDC handbook or on the e-Visa portal either.

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

Article 8 requires every non-immigrant alien to carry their own passport or another equivalent document bearing an incoming visa granted by the authorities, and to pay the visa charges and the airport and water-port fees, the conditions for those payments being set by Sub-Decree. The official source does not state funds, accommodation, insurance or onward-travel evidence for this permission.

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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 8's three conditions are present with the same substance - prior entry permission through Cambodian diplomatic or consular authorities, a passport or equivalent document bearing the entry visa, and payment of visa fees and airport or port charges set by sub-decree.
  • The link to this route is a cross-reference, not part of this citation: Article 7 (cited at R1) places border-area residents among non-immigrant aliens, and Article 8 then states the conditions for that class as a whole. Article 8 itself never mentions border residents.
  • The Law does not say how Article 8's conditions are modified for the Article 7(6) permission, whose own conditions it defers to a Sub-Decree that is not among the captures.
  • No funds, accommodation, insurance or onward-travel evidence is stated for this category anywhere in the Law.
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    ARTICLE 8 : - Non- immigrant aliens: may be allowed to stay in the Kingdom of Cambodia: 1. shall be required to get incoming visas before hand from the Royal Government of Cambodia, through any diplomatic authorities or Consulates of the Kingdom of Cambodia; or either through any foreign authority which represents the interests of the Kingdom of Cambodia in the out-countries. For the persons who are in transit and the ships’ and aircrafts’ crews, this permission shall be delivered to them by the competent authority of the Kingdom of Cambodia, at the time when they get out of their ships or out of the airport. co 2. shall have to bring with them their own: passports or any other equivalent document which bear incoming visas granted by the authorities thereon, as specifiein d paragraph 1 above. "3. shall have to pay charges for the visas, and airport’s and water-port’s fees. The conditions for these payments of the charges and fees, shall be specified by a Sub- Decree .

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

Where permission is required it is obtained in advance from the Royal Government of Cambodia, through a Cambodian diplomatic authority or consulate, or through a foreign authority representing Cambodia's interests abroad. The official source does not state whether the permission can be extended or changed.

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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 8(1) is present with the same substance, including the alternative channel of a foreign authority representing Cambodia's interests abroad.
  • Article 8(1) is the general channel for non-immigrant aliens. Article 7(6) expressly leaves the conditions for the border-crossing permission to a Sub-Decree that is not captured, so the Law does not confirm that a border resident uses this channel rather than a local border procedure.
  • Nothing in any capture states whether a border-crossing permission can be extended or converted into another status.
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    ARTICLE 8 : - Non- immigrant aliens: may be allowed to stay in the Kingdom of Cambodia: 1. shall be required to get incoming visas before hand from the Royal Government of Cambodia, through any diplomatic authorities or Consulates of the Kingdom of Cambodia; or either through any foreign authority which represents the interests of the Kingdom of Cambodia in the out-countries. For the persons who are in transit and the ships’ and aircrafts’ crews, this permission shall be delivered to them by the competent authority of the Kingdom of Cambodia, at the time when they get out of their ships or out of the airport.

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

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