Cambodia online visa to cross from Thailand at Koh kong, pay with Thai debit card ? Have you tried it ? Safe ?

[autoc]

Hello,

 

Can you pay online with a Thai debit card your visa to Cambodia to cross from Thailand at Koh kong ?

Is it safe ? Have you done it lately ?

 

Thank you.

[autoc]

Any experience ?

[AJS 7R]

           Yes it's safe, I did it two weeks ago, you must have your card set up for

internet use and you are good to go. Easy to apply and they even use to send

Christmas greetings to you.

[autoc]

Thank you, I will try it. How many days after paying did you get your visa ? Then you just need to print it ?

[krabi local]

I booked and paid for my Visa online and they never actually arrived.
Just showed 'pending'. Ended up having to pay on arrival and claim back.
They took about 8 weeks to refund the money.


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[atyclb]

have done it many times and it works well. pro;not a sticker that takes up an entire passport page , saves some time at border   Con; costs more than visa on arrival

[dotpoom]

1 hour ago, AJS 7R said:

           Yes it's safe, I did it two weeks ago, you must have your card set up for

internet use and you are good to go. Easy to apply and they even use to send

Christmas greetings to you.

Who....the Cambodians or the Credit Card people?

[autoc]

And did you have to pay some pocket money at the border ? It seems that they often try ?

 

 

[BruceMangosteen]

I've used a Thai credit card with success. Some Thai Debit Visa(logo) Cards don't work. It doesn't hurt to try I suppose. Once the payment is approved, usually two business days, sometimes three. Never had an issue in perhaps ten eVisa applications and approvals. One word of caution, you can't extend said Visa for a year. That type of Visa is not available online. You also should make two copies, one for arrival and one for departure.

[Flyfish]

I also applied online about 3 weeks ago,it took just 48hours,you print 2 copies and staple them in your passport....one for entry,one for exit. Very simple.

[Jackie66]

I did it a few weeks ago with a Bangkok Bank debit card. Took about 24 hours to get the visa. Printed 2 (one for entry one for exit) and just gave one when entering and one when leaving Cambodia. Did not staple them in passport as it is just messy with all the staples from Thai immigration.

 

Edited November 23, 2016 by Jackie66

[ThaiWai]

I did it and was apparently the only person on the plane who did.   Everyone else was filling out paperwork and I was in a cab on the way to my hotel.  PM me if you need a great tuk tuk guy in Siem Reap.

[jobsworth]

sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. depends on which payment gateway you use. one time i had 2 fraudulent payments to vodaphone. my credit card company refunded the fraud. a khmer told me that they do like this as an act of protest against the government, another time i had to make several telephone calls before they delivered. it is worth using this service to save a page in your passport. go for it. it is well worth the risk. always say that you are crossing into cambodia next week. the crossing can be any time 3 months after that. otherwise your application will go to the bottom of the pile. good luck.

 

[questionsreplies]

2 hours ago, BruceMangosteen said:

I've used a Thai credit card with success. Some Thai Debit Visa(logo) Cards don't work. It doesn't hurt to try I suppose. Once the payment is approved, usually two business days, sometimes three. Never had an issue in perhaps ten eVisa applications and approvals. One word of caution, you can't extend said Visa for a year. That type of Visa is not available online. You also should make two copies, one for arrival and one for departure.

 

To extend 1 year it's an ordinary visa ? can we get iit at Kohkong border ?

 

 

[sghanchey]

Be advised that there are bogus websites that charge significantly more than the official Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs website. I've done it many times, but never for a land crossing- only at Phnom Penh and Siem Reap airports. The official website is https://www.evisa.gov.kh/

 

[BruceMangosteen]

12 hours ago, questionsreplies said:

 

To extend 1 year it's an ordinary visa ? can we get iit at Kohkong border ?

 

 

I'm not sure of the name, at one time "business" but do recall reading about "ordinary". As far as frontier borders, again no personal experience. I know you can get it at the Phnom Penh Airport on entry. Search out some Cambodia forums keeping in mind it's just another farang answering, not a Government official. 

[AJS 7R]

21 hours ago, dotpoom said:

Who....the Cambodians or the Credit Card people?

   The Cambodians that issue the visa.

[bbpbbp]

Hello,

The border crossing visa is now $35 and I recommend you buy one at the border to save time, NOT an e-visa. Why? Whilst there is an e-visa you can get in advance, it is not only more expensive (about $42) but it actually delays you at the border

The reason is simple. Those who buy a visa spend about 5 minutes in a short queue buying it whilst those with an e-visa do not have to do this, HOWEVER, then all the people are split into two queues for immigration. One queue is for those who purchased a visa and this is usually very short - took us less than 5 minutes to get our fingerprints done etc. Those who have an e-visa go in a separate queue that takes much much longer by virtue of numbers alone. Our friends with an e-visa queued for at least 30 minutes to go through immigration.

Now you know :-)

 

 

 

 

Bottom line - it is far quicker and cheaper to buy your visa at the border crossing.

[BruceMangosteen]

2 hours ago, bbpbbp said:

Bottom line - it is far quicker and cheaper to buy your visa at the border crossing.

 

In the past, you had to pay extra for the VISA at the frontier borders. Sometimes they don't accept USD, want Baht and of course not reasonable amounts of Baht/Exchange. 

 

I've been through both Koh Kong and Poi Pet with an eVisa and never had to wait in a separate que/line. In Poi Pet for a mere 300 Baht(with an eVisa) you can get VIP treatment and not wait in any line. 

 

These experiences are from 2015, maybe this year they started being honest and didn't have these extortion tactics and corruption in the fold. 

 

Good Luck.

[autoc]

On 11/26/2016 at 2:30 PM, bbpbbp said:

Hello,

The border crossing visa is now $35 and I recommend you buy one at the border to save time, NOT an e-visa. Why? Whilst there is an e-visa you can get in advance, it is not only more expensive (about $42) but it actually delays you at the border

The reason is simple. Those who buy a visa spend about 5 minutes in a short queue buying it whilst those with an e-visa do not have to do this, HOWEVER, then all the people are split into two queues for immigration. One queue is for those who purchased a visa and this is usually very short - took us less than 5 minutes to get our fingerprints done etc. Those who have an e-visa go in a separate queue that takes much much longer by virtue of numbers alone. Our friends with an e-visa queued for at least 30 minutes to go through immigration.

Now you know :-)

 

 

 

 

Bottom line - it is far quicker and cheaper to buy your visa at the border crossing.

 

 

True that it does not seem a good idea to pay $40 online when you can pay $30 or $35 at the border, $35 including bribe that they will ask anyway even if you have an evisa...