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1. No Advance Planning

Some countries will grant you a tourist visa automatically upon arrival, and there’s no need for pre-arrangements or payments. Immigration officers will stamp your passport with a date showing either the number of days you can stay, or a date indicating when you must leave the country. The stamp on your passport serves as a ‘Visa’. You’re allowed to enter multiple times, within a specific no of days. They start counting on the first day you enter the country. In other words, this is called a multiple-entry Visa.

Sometimes, this comes with a fee. On arrival at the entry point, you’ll need to visit the ‘Visa-on-arrival’ counter to submit your Visa application. You’ll be required to provide passport-sized photos and a stamping fee. The Visa usually takes the form of sticker or simply a stamp on your passport. By default, you will get a single-entry Visa, but citizens of some countries may have the option to pay extra for longer stays and multiple entries. For those with single-entry Visas, you can stay for a specific number of days. Each time you leave the country and re-enter, you have to apply for another visa.

2. Three-Day Preparation

Some countries require you to submit your visa application before you make your trip. You can’t do it at the entry point. Usually, you will get a reference number or an approval letter to indicate that your Visa has already been received. Some countries will grant you the Visa without a fee. Others may need you to pay for the stamping fee at the Visa-on-arrival counter. Submission of application is to be done online without the need to hand over your original passport.

For some countries, you will receive your Visa soon after submitting your application online. Since you get the Visa in advance, and you can print out your visa, this is by far the most convenient way.

You must enter the country within a specific day after your application has been received or you have received your visa in advance.

3. Two-Week Preparation

Some countries require your Visa to be ready well before entering the country. The visa is granted beforehand by the embassy of the country you wish to visit. It is usually easier to do it in your home country before you travel. You can also apply through travel agents, who have runners, thus saving you a trip to the embassy. Some embassies allow you to mail in your passport together with your application.

Depending on the country, the expiry date on your Visa may begin once it is been issued to you, instead of beginning on the day you enter the country.

According to the official statistics, tourists arrivals in Myanmar hit 227,400 in the calendar year of 2009, up 25 percent compared with 2008, since the launch on new visa on arrival service on July 2010

Source: Asia Travel Visa Fan Page

Tips for online visa application

Picture this scenario, you see a blank page on your computer, you press ‘next’ and it takes forever to load. What’s up? If this happens to you while you’re in the process of applying for an online Visa, make sure that you’re not uploading an image that’s not too big in size. Resize your picture and try again. If not, try with another computer or a different web browser such as Google Chrome or Firefox.

Another good tip is to have your passport with you while you’re making an application, you’ll definitely need some of the info in there. If you’re applying for friends, make sure you’ve gotten all their details and pictures before you start. This will save you a lot of grief.

Other than credit card payments, many online Visa portals accept Paypal. At the payment page, they will prompt you to log in to your Paypal account using your email address, and then you can make the payment from there. In some countries, you’ve got to go through an extended program in Paypal to verify your credit card.

Always enter your application in ENGLISH (Roman alphabet), not in Chinese or Japanese characters, and make sure you review all your information, especially your passport number and date of birth.

If you have two nationalities, pick one to enter. Use the one where you’re most likely to be approved. If you were born in the country you wish to visit, but are now holding a foreign passport, please check with their embassy. In Cambodia, for example, you need to apply for a special Visa, not a tourist Visa if you were born there. And, in Vietnam, if you were born there, you’re exempted from getting a Visa.

Apply Cambodia Tourist Visa without going to embassy or leaving passport to 3rd party runners

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Travellers arriving at Siem Reap internation airport

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e-Visa project was first launched in year 2006. The original Team is a web design company in Malaysia, who also donated funds to build schools in Cambodia. The team worked hard day and night to improve, to fund, to market and to support the system till it became a valid and trustworthy site and received overwhelming feedback from customers, friends and even other web developers.

For 30 months , the Team had built the system, had paid employees in Malaysia and Cambodia to maintain the system, had paid for the internet connections & PCs, had even travelled to Cambodia to set up the network and to do marketing and admin. All these work were invested with the agreement for eventual payment when it becomes profitable. However, just as the system became profitable, the system was hijacked with Mr Adrian Phang as the mastermind.

The original e-Visa website. The original service provider uploaded the original version at http://www.cambodiaonarrival.com in order for travelers to do a side-by-side compare of old & new website.

The project was originally created by people at 1.com.my

Two Kumomo Schools built in Cambodia by 1.com.my

Mike praised on the original website

Then comes the evils!

On the 28th of June 2008, 3 culprits hijacked the Cambodia e-Visa website. However as expected, the culprits being non dedicated and money-faced, could not maintain the system well enough and had caused a lot of problems to existing e-Visa holder and new applicants.

New service provider launched their website by illegally infringing the original e-Visa website

The Team is suing Mr. TY Thong from GoVoice Sdn Bhd, Mr. Adrian Phang from Green Solutions Technologies Sdn Bhd and HE HONG Panharith, General Inspector of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation. Read the court case document.

The evils returned

There are no clues where the money goes if you pay your Visa fee online. It is skeptical now as the system is now managed by a bunch of crooks.

It gets even more murky now. The new website is down most of the time. The service provider changed the header to cover their sin of infringement. The site is a mess now if you compare it with the original site.

The new service provider claimed that it is an upgrade. We DOUBT… :)

Original e-Visa website Vs New e-Visa website

New e-Visa website having problem most of the time

Check this out, they don’t even bother to change this picture. The girl is a former team member from the Team. Again, another proof that the current service provider is a crook.

Former team in 1.com.my

Please do not apply Cambodia e-Visa until the justice prevails.

Screenshot taken from Wikitravel

The original provider of the e-Visa service was kicked out in murky circumstances, and their site now rails against the evils of the new provider. However, travellers who have obtained e-Visas with the new system report no problems using them.

Posted in Wikitravel Cambodia.