Cambodia

Foreign worker permit and employment card

Work permission for the approved employment for up to one year, limited by the worker’s separate residence permission. It is not an entry visa or residence permit.

Who qualifies

• A foreign worker must hold a work permit and employment card issued by the ministry responsible for labour.
  Cambodian Labour Law (1997), Arts. 261–262
• The employer must have the required permission to employ a foreigner; the worker must have entered legally and hold a valid passport and residence permit, and meet the stated fitness requirement.
  Cambodian Labour Law (1997), Art. 261
• The work permit is valid for one year and may be extended only within the period allowed by the worker’s residence permit; employer foreign-worker limits and priority for Cambodian workers also apply.
  Cambodian Labour Law (1997), Arts. 261, 263–265

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

This visa doesn’t lead to a passport.

1. 2027
   First residence permit

   1 year, renewable for 1 year at a time.

Language

Speak Khmer and read Khmer script.

Civics

Some knowledge of Khmer history, and evidence of living in harmony with Khmer society and customs.

Time away

Seven years of continuous residence counted from the date you receive a residence card under the immigration law, and living in Cambodia when you apply.

Two passports

Yes. You keep your U.S. citizenship.

• Time on this program does not count toward permanent residence or citizenship; the family would need to switch to one that does.
• The work permit depends on a separate residence permission and does not supply the immigration-law residence card that starts Cambodia’s naturalisation clock.