Crossing paperwork, 2026
Half the Quy Nhon visa run happens on the Cambodian side at Oyadav, and the rules there are the opposite of what most people have read. Visa on arrival works. A printed e-visa does not.
Visa on arrival
Works at OyadavCambodia e-visa
Not here Bavet and Trapeang Kreal onlyFee, tourist
US$30 cash, up to $35 askedATM at the gate
None bring USD from Quy NhonAt the Le Thanh gate you leave Vietnam at Le Thanh and enter Cambodia at Oyadav, in Ratanakiri. Oyadav issues a Cambodia tourist visa on arrival for US$30, in clean US dollar cash, with a passport photo. That is the route virtually everyone on a Quy Nhon visa run uses, and it has not changed.
What has changed is that Cambodia now issues everything electronically, and the e-visa is only accepted at a short list of crossings. The list is Bavet, opposite Moc Bai on the Ho Chi Minh City road, Trapeang Kreal on the Lao border, and the three international airports. Oyadav is not on it. So if you paid US$36 online for a Cambodia e-visa expecting it to cover this run, it will not.
The practical answer: bring US$30 to US$35 in clean notes to Le Thanh, carry a passport photo, and do not book anything on the assumption that an e-visa will be scanned at the counter. Everything else below is detail.
Three ways in
Cambodia lets most travellers in one of three ways. Two of them are relevant to a Le Thanh run and one of those is the only one that works there.
Use this one
US$30 cash
Bought at the Oyadav counter. 30 days, single entry, extendable once by another 30 at the immigration office in Phnom Penh. A passport photo and clean dollar notes are what the officer wants.
Not at this gate
US$36 online
US$30 for the visa plus a US$6 processing charge. Three working days to issue, printed and carried with the passport. Accepted at Bavet, Trapeang Kreal and the airports. Not at Oyadav.
If it applies to you
Free
ASEAN passports enter without a visa: Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines get 30 days, Brunei and Myanmar 14, Thailand 7. Chinese, Hong Kong and Macao passports have a trial exemption to 15 October 2026.
The e-visa is the more expensive option and the less flexible one, which is the opposite of how it reads on most guides. Pre-approval certainty only counts if your gate accepts it.
Money at the counter
The posted tourist visa rate is US$30. What the counter asks for is usually US$30 to US$35, and at a quiet freight gate the difference is rarely explained. Budget US$35 and treat anything you get back as a bonus. Arguing over two dollars at a land border with your passport on the desk is a bad use of your afternoon.
Weekends and late arrivals add a small unofficial charge, commonly reported between US$1 and US$5, with no receipt. The other thing worth knowing: nobody has change. Bring a US$50 note and you may be told to find something smaller, so the sensible wallet for this run is a US$20, a US$10 and a US$5, all clean and unmarked. Torn or written-on notes get refused.
Check your passport first
Ten nationalities have neither visa on arrival nor e-visa access to Cambodia. They are Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka and Sudan. Citizens of those countries must apply at a Cambodian embassy in advance, usually with a supporting letter from a travel agency.
That list matters more in 2026 than it used to, for a reason that is easy to miss. Since 3 October 2026 Cambodian embassies and consulates no longer put a visa sticker in your passport. Everything is issued electronically now. So for a passport that has to go through an embassy, the only document that comes back is an e-visa, and the e-visa is not accepted at Oyadav.
In plain terms: if your passport is on the ten-country list, the Quy Nhon to Le Thanh run does not work for you. You would be stamped out of Vietnam at Le Thanh and unable to satisfy the Cambodian counter at Oyadav. Sort the Cambodia side, or the whole trip, before committing to this road.
If you are on one of those passports and still need a Vietnam reset, the Cambodian crossing that does accept an e-visa is Bavet, opposite Moc Bai, on the Ho Chi Minh City road. Head south instead. The Ho Chi Minh City visa run covers that gate, and the Nha Trang runs feed the same corridor.
The digital arrival card
Since 2024 Cambodia has required an e-Arrival declaration, a free online form covering immigration, customs and health, separate from the visa. It is filed at arrival.gov.kh or through the Cambodia e-Arrival app, within seven days of arrival, and you get a QR code back.
Where the guidance gets muddy is land crossings. The online card was built around air arrivals, and most traveller reports from small gates, Oyadav included, still describe a paper form handed over at the counter. Announcements on the official side describe it as applying to every traveller. The honest position is that both exist, so do the free online card before you leave Quy Nhon while you still have decent signal, keep the QR on your phone, and fill in the paper form if the officer gives you one. Ten minutes of duplication costs you nothing.
One warning that applies either way. The only official channels are the ones ending in gov.kh. Cambodia's immigration department has publicly named lookalike sites charging a service fee for the arrival card, and there are several of them. If a page wants money for the e-Arrival, it is not the government. The genuine form is free.
At the counter
Vietnam exit stamp at Le Thanh. Short queue, freight gate, few tourists. Have the printed e-visa for your return leg in the same folder so it does not get lost here.
Walk the few hundred metres of no man's land to the Oyadav buildings. In the wet season this is a muddy five minutes, so do not wear the shoes you care about.
Pick up the arrival form at the counter, or show the QR from an e-Arrival card filed online. Fill in name, passport number, flight or vehicle, and a Cambodia address. A guesthouse name in Banlung is fine.
Hand over the passport, the photo and US$30 in clean notes. Expect to be asked for US$35. Take the receipt if one is offered; keep it with the passport.
Cambodia entry stamp: 30 days, single entry. Check the date the officer writes before you walk away. Printing errors are rare but annoying to fix from Quy Nhon.
Walk back and re-enter Vietnam. The officer uses the new Vietnam e-visa, and the 90 days start counting from this entry stamp, not from the day the visa was issued.
Straight talk
The most common mistake on this route in 2026. The e-visa was paid for, printed, and is simply not on the accepted list for Oyadav. The counter will sell you a visa on arrival anyway, so your US$36 bought you nothing. Bring the cash the first time.
This is the genuinely bad version, and it is why the passport question has to be settled before the car leaves Quy Nhon. Getting walked back onto the Vietnamese side with no Cambodian entry stamp is a conversation, not a procedure, and the officer's discretion is not a plan. We check nationalities against the Cambodia list when a booking comes in for exactly this reason.
Oyadav shuts at 17:30, two and a half hours before the Vietnamese gate. A visa bought at the last minute at a closing counter is a visa bought under pressure. The schedule targets early afternoon at the gate for a reason, and the full route timing is on the Le Thanh road guide.
Worth saying plainly: the tourist visa is single entry and gives you 30 days, so the run can be stretched. Banlung, the Ratanakiri capital, is a few hours on from the gate, and the road is rougher than QL19. If you are thinking about a night on the Cambodian side, tell us when you book so the driver's return is arranged rather than assumed.
Quick answers
Yes. The Cambodian post at Oyadav, on the Ratanakiri side of the Le Thanh gate, issues visa on arrival to eligible nationalities for US$30. Bring clean US dollar notes and a passport photo. Travellers are regularly asked for US$30 to US$35, and change for a fifty is not guaranteed.
No. Cambodia's e-visa is accepted at the three international airports and at a short list of land gates headed by Bavet on the Vietnamese border and Trapeang Kreal on the Lao border. Oyadav is not on that list. Turning up at Le Thanh with a printed e-visa and nothing else means buying a visa on arrival anyway, or being sent back.
US$30 for the 30-day single-entry tourist visa, paid in cash at the Oyadav counter. In practice officials at land gates ask for US$30 to US$35, and a US$1 to US$5 overtime charge is widely reported on weekends and late in the day. No card machine, and no ATM at the gate.
Ten nationalities have neither visa on arrival nor e-visa access to Cambodia: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka and Sudan. Citizens of those countries need a visa from a Cambodian embassy before travelling, which since 3 October 2026 is issued electronically rather than as a passport sticker. ASEAN passports are visa-free, and Chinese, Hong Kong and Macao passports have a trial exemption running to 15 October 2026.
Cambodia has required the free digital e-Arrival declaration since 2024, and it is filed at arrival.gov.kh or in the Cambodia e-Arrival app within seven days of arrival. In practice the online card is built around air arrivals and small land gates still hand out a paper form, so do the online version before you leave Quy Nhon if you have the signal, and fill in the paper one if the officer gives you one. Nobody should ever charge you for it.
Yes, and that is what the visa run is. The Cambodia tourist visa is single entry, so it is used once on the way in and never touched again. You walk back to the Vietnamese side with the same passport and a fresh Vietnam e-visa, and the 90 days start from that re-entry stamp.
Vietnam's half of a Quy Nhon visa run is a long drive with a printed e-visa at the end of it. Cambodia's half is a counter, a queue of freight drivers, and US$30 in notes the officer will accept. Get the cash and the photograph right and the crossing is the shortest part of the day. The whole run, including the Cambodia handling, is 3,700,000 VND per car, and the numbers are broken down on the 2026 price page.
Not your corridor? The visarun.vn hub compares every border in the country, Ho Chi Minh City runs cross at Moc Bai where the Cambodia e-visa is accepted, and Da Nang and Hoi An use the Lao Bao gate instead.
