Last updated: November 5, 2026 · By Wander Cambodia
By Sophea Khim · Host & Editor, Wander CambodiaThe v-Pass (Visitor Pass) is Cambodia's digital entry record. Since July 1, 2025, immigration at international airports and seaports no longer stamps your passport or adds a QR sticker — your entry and permitted stay are logged electronically instead. Your v-Pass is sent to your email and is available in the Cambodia e-Arrival app and at arrival.gov.kh. Nothing to apply for, nothing to pay: it is issued automatically when an officer clears you. No stamp is the new normal — save a screenshot of your v-Pass and keep it for the whole trip.
The moment of panic is always the same: you reach the baggage belt, flip open your passport out of habit, and there is no stamp. Did they actually let you in? They did — the record just lives somewhere new. This page answers the question on its own; our fuller v-Pass explained guide covers the arrival sequence step by step.
For decades, entry to Cambodia meant an ink stamp and, in recent years, a QR sticker. From July 1, 2025, the General Department of Immigration moved that record into its system: when you are cleared, your entry is logged electronically and a Visitor Pass — the v-Pass — is generated with your entry details and the date your permitted stay runs to. It applies at international airports and seaports, which for most visitors means Techo International Airport (KTI) for Phnom Penh or Siem Reap's SAI — the arrival walkthrough in our Techo International Airport guide shows where in the sequence it happens.
Your v-Pass reaches you three ways: by email after clearance, to the address tied to your arrival details (use one you can open on your phone); in the Cambodia e-Arrival app, the same app used for the e-Arrival card; and at arrival.gov.kh, where you can retrieve and download it. Do one small thing in the arrival hall or on the first night: open it, confirm the stay date matches your visa, and screenshot it. Hotels, extension agents and any officer who asks later will all be satisfied by that screenshot, and it is far easier to find than an email three weeks into a trip.
The v-Pass is a record, not a new rulebook. Your permitted stay still comes from your visa — 30 days on a tourist entry, extendable once for about $45, or the Ordinary (Type E) entry that the extension system builds on, covered in our visa extension guide. Overstaying still costs $10 per day with no cap, and anyone more than 30 days over must clear it at immigration in Phnom Penh — the process is in our overstay guide. Losing your phone does not lose your entry either: the record sits in the immigration system, and the email and website copies can be retrieved again.
Departure is recorded the same digital way, so do not expect an exit stamp to balance the missing entry stamp. If an airline check-in agent or a land-border officer elsewhere in the region asks about the absence of stamps, your v-Pass screenshot plus your boarding records answer it — this is now standard practice documented by carriers across the region, and Cambodia-facing staff know the system. Keep the screenshot until you are home; it costs nothing and ends every version of that conversation.
System details checked against the site's v-Pass research and arrival.gov.kh in November 2026. The v-Pass is issued automatically and is always free.
The v-Pass (Visitor Pass) is Cambodia's digital entry record. Since July 1, 2025, immigration at international airports and seaports no longer stamps your passport or adds a QR sticker — your entry and permitted stay are recorded electronically instead, and the v-Pass is issued to your email and available in the Cambodia e-Arrival app and at arrival.gov.kh. No stamp is normal now; it does not mean anything went wrong.
You do not apply for it and you pay nothing. When an immigration officer clears you on arrival, the system generates your v-Pass automatically. It is sent to the email address tied to your arrival details and can be retrieved in the Cambodia e-Arrival app or at arrival.gov.kh. Save or screenshot it and keep it for the whole trip.
Your entry details and your permitted length of stay — the same information the old passport stamp carried, held digitally instead of on a passport page. Your permitted stay is whatever your visa allows; the v-Pass records it, it does not change it.
No. Your stay length still comes from your visa — 30 days on a tourist entry, extendable once, or the Ordinary (Type E) entry that extensions build on. Overstaying still costs $10 per day with no cap, and stays more than 30 days over must be cleared at immigration in Phnom Penh. The v-Pass is a record, not a rule change.
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