Cambodia Reopens Borders, E-Visas Available Again 🛃 We Finally Have Our Solution

This is a huge break for us, can't wait to get back and restart life. For now, in typical Cambodian fashion, the e-Visa website has left out many countries like the USA, but included places like the Faroe Islands in the dropdown menu.

I will wait a few weeks until all the kinks are ironed out of the website before attempting anything.

As much as it will suck, I will try to produce hot daily Hive content from my solo quarantine. Since we will be separated upon arrival, and being I am already close to the USA, it seems wise for me to return to the USA for a few weeks and visit family before flying alone.

We aren't hopeful about US immigration or tourist visas anymore, so if my American family wants to meet my Cambodian family, they will just have put their butts in a plane. Because I feel there is no way we are going to the USA, this may be my last chance to visit my parents, so I better take it.

Cambodia/Albania have always felt like a home to me, despite how hard governments make me feel unwelcome. The Cambodian people have embraced me more than anywhere I've ever been, and that alone almost makes me feel obligated to call it home. Thanks my friend.

True, and as things go, usually small adjustments are made to new policies after a few weeks, correcting for errors and inefficiency. We are still not leaving for a month, so that will give the government time to streamline things. For now the website doesn't list the USA in the dropdown menu, so I reached a hitch in the first few seconds.

Me too, it has been a long time coming. Even though it's not my country, it's where I feel most at home on this planet, so it's good to know I can plan a return and escape the hardships we face in Suriname.

Yeah, we could buy a 3-hectare farm in Cambodian for the price of a 4-person 7-day quarantine. Luckily we'll be able to reunite after our quarantine period, although I still haven't decided whether to fly to Cambodia with them or briefly visit the USA before returning to Cambodia.

No problem, it is all very complicated bureaucracy, but the most important thing is that Cambodia is (partially) open again, so this means we can return home.

Thank you for stopping by. Welcome to Hive and also the ASEAN Hive Community.

There is much exciting content to come in the future. We are already dreaming big, thank you my friend for you kind words. The quarantine costs will seem like a small price to have paid once it's behind me.

I think we could potentially bribe the authorities into letting me go the government booked guesthouses with them, but it seems more likely they will fly without me to Cambodia while I go to the USA for what might the last visit for a long time.

We are still in the planning phase, but now it feels each day is forward progress.

Yes, soon will be eating fruit again, enjoying social living, have access to a wide variety of vegetables and ingredients, and best of all, have running water. Give thanks.

Usually a ten spot will do the job if it's gonna work. Hard to say though, COVID has changed everything, people are now scared of penalties for not enforcing rules flawlessly. I am really curious to see how this changed Cambodia.

I am leaning towards going to the USA for what might be a last visit. I think you're right, and we can't count on having immigration success in the next year or two. I would've flown to the USA and returned to Suriname to leave together, but our Suriname visa is expired, so I can leave but can't return.

Thanks my friend for keeping me in your thoughts.

Yes, I don't want to get too invested, but it looks like 2022 will be a year of border openings, although with great restrictions and expenses making it nearly impossible for migrants and immigrants from tough circumstances. The rich tourists of the world will not be affected much, and will likely enjoy seeing places not so crowded.

Fingers crossed for a return to Cambodia, thanks my friend.

We are elated.

It's definitely a hustle, but I guess it's all in how bad we want to get back versus how long we want to wait. It's clear this policy is targeted at initially bringing wealthier tourists into the country. In my experience rich tourists spend money in very tight loops that benefit the government greatly, with little trickling down the local economy.

Migrants, immigrants, and budge travelers are more likely to spend money on small family-owned guesthouses instead of high-dollar hotels, eat at roadside restaurants instead of fancy ones owned by the rich, etc. Well, I guess our experience here in Suriname is just so bad, we will do whatever it takes to get out of here.

Thanks, I think.

Indeed, and we're hoping COVID-19 related visa complications will be streamlined by the time we leave, and also that the quarantine period might be lifted or rolled back to three days. Fingers crossed....

So much more opportunities indeed, I have never had the quality of life and local spending power like I have in Cambodia. The USA is just working with a shovel until I die penniless, not for me.

Thank you, we are counting the days now.....

We have been spending our days making plans, we can almost taste the (relative) freedom again.

Canada is one of the toughest cookies, we lost $3,000 USD on tickets because Canada denied us a transit visa. Lesson learned, don't be a poor Cambodian and think you can just fly through Mexico, the USA, or Canada on the way to somewhere else. Canada told us we lacked the necessary funds to transit their airports, even though the visa form makes no mention a monetary requirement.

The world is a mess, and we just want to live somewhere where we feel welcome. Thanks for stopping by chef, we hope the future is much brighter.