Article 12: The process of recognition of any alien as an immigrant alien shall be decided by a Prakas of the Ministry of the Interior.

Article 13: All immigrants or non-immigrant aliens who have been authorized to come to the Kingdom of Cambodia must present themselves at Immigration Police checkpoints, both at the time of arrival and departure. Every exit or entrance gateway for aliens shall be specified and governed by the Ministry of the Interior.

Article 14: All immigrant aliens shall have to present themselves at the Alien Office of the Municipal or Provincial Police Commissariats in the city/province where they are going to stay within 49 hours of their arrival, in order to complete applications for Resident Cards. Receipts shall be given to immigrant aliens after receiving such applications.

Article 17: In principle, foreigners may freely travel in the territory of the Kingdom of Cambodia. However, in certain cases the Minister of Interior may prohibit the travel of foreigners, and ban all immigrant or non-immigrant aliens from entering in, residing in, or travelling far from a certain zone of or the entire territory of the Kingdom of Cambodia.

Article 19: When offering any job to any alien, one shall comply with the Labor Law of the Kingdom of Cambodia. The Ministry of Interior, in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Actions, Labor, and Veteran Affairs, shall have the power to conduct checks of and maintain controls on the labor / working cards of the foreign workers in every factory, enterprises, company and establishment.

Article 20: The Municipal/Provincial Police Commissariats shall inform the Alien Department of the Ministry of the Interior of any deaths or disappearances of immigrant aliens who reside in their corresponding jurisdictions.

Article 23: Those immigrant aliens who intend to leave the Kingdom of Cambodia for a period of time shall request the permissions to leave and return from the Ministry of the Interior. In principle, this period of stay in foreign countries shall not exceed three months. But this period may be extended up to six months if there are reasonable grounds for such an extension. The fee/taxes to be levied when administering the entry and exit permits shall be specified by a sub-decree.

Article 24: If the return of the immigrant alien is beyond the time frame permitted by the Ministry of Interior, the immigrant alien shall have to apply again for an entry visa, and he/she shall be deemed as a new immigrant alien having just arrived, not as a resident immigrant alien having left the Kingdom of Cambodia for a period of time.

All these Articles above are extracted from the Immigration Law of the Kingdom of Cambodia for readers'  information purposes. A full law copy can be obtain or found at the relevant institutions of the Kingdom of Cambodia.  Information regarding the Cambodia visa application tips can be found in the Cambodia Visa Section of this website.

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