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Citizenship by donation or investment. Cambodia has had a cash route to citizenship since 1996; a December 2025 overhaul roughly tripled the price, from about $245,000 to about $3 million for the donation and from about $305,000 to about $1 million for the investment track.

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Citizenship by donation or investment

Full Cambodian citizenship and passport; dual nationality is allowed, and since 2025 a dual citizen’s foreign passport must be registered with the authorities.

Who qualifies

Whether you keep your U.S. citizenship depends on the route you take later.

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Does it fit your family?

One question, from the program’s own rules.

Savings you could move or invest?

Not legal advice.

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What it takes.

Investment
About $1,000,000.
Time
No statutory timeline; law firms estimate several months to about a year with the 2025 due-diligence layer.
Cost
About $1 million on the investment track or about $3 million on the donation track since December 2025, plus legal and processing fees. The old $245,000 / $305,000 figures no longer apply to new applicants.
The hard part
The price tripled overnight and most pages still quote the old number. If you only want to live in Cambodia, the ordinary visa extension (KH-EB) is far cheaper.

Dollar figures are converted from the local currency at the rate the program’s research used; the official figure is in the local currency.

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Citizens by 2028.

  1. 2028
    Citizenship and passport

    Usually 6–12 months from filing.

Language
Speak Khmer and read Khmer script.
Civics
Some knowledge of Khmer history, and evidence of living in harmony with Khmer society and customs.
Two passports
Yes. You keep your U.S. citizenship.
  • Citizenship itself for about USD 1 million invested or USD 3 million donated since December 2025; the 1996 law still lists Khmer language among the conditions, and the decision time is a law-firm estimate.
The law behind these dates
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Living there.

Time you must spend there
None to obtain or keep citizenship.
Tax
Cambodia generally does not tax residents’ foreign-source income in practice, but citizenship alone changes nothing about your home-country tax residence.

We never file a tax return. We tell you what applies and brief the professional who does.

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Start today.

  1. Engage a Cambodian law firm to prepare the donation or investment file for the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the Ministry of Interior.Open mef.gov.kh ↗
  2. Round up the papers.
    • Proof of the funds to invest: about $1,000,000, and where they came from
    • Request your FBI Identity History Summary
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Or let us run it.

$900for your first year as a founding member. Then $399 a year, automatically.Standard first year: $1,200. Everyone renews at $399.One membership, the whole family. Accounts and activation included.

11 steps, from the first paper to the passport. You do 3 of them: send what we ask for, sign, and show up. We run the rest, and keep every permit renewed on time. Accounts and activation are included, whether you move now or keep the plan ready. Accounts depend on provider availability. Government, record and approved third-party charges are extra.

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