ok guys, as we know the visa on arrival is back in Bali
and these are the things that you are going to need to know to have a nice smooth entry in to Bali Indonesia using a VOA
so the first thing to bear in mind, your passport must have a validity left on it of 6 months!
so make sure that you have got enough stay on your passport before trying to get your Visa On Arrival.
6 months is what you need guys!
The second thing to note is that you also must have an exit strategy.
in the form of an exit flight leaving Indonesia.
You can NOT just come with a one way flight into Indonesia and expect to get your Visa On Arrival
and have no issues
They will ask you to book a return flight home.
cheeky tip - you can just book a short flight to, let's say, Singapore
for $80 to show that you have your exit ticket. if you're not sure when you will be leaving.
some of you might come for the initial 30 days, some people might want to extend to the other 30 days
so you have 60 days in total so you might not know exactly when you're going to leave
so rather than having to book a flight home, just book a cheeky $80 flight to Singapore
that you might not use and it might save you a little bit of money.
The next thing to know is that the visa on arrival is 500,000 IDR - That's $35
you will pay that in the airport when you get your visa on arrival
if you wanted to extend your visa for another 30 days you will then pay another 500,000 IDR / another $35
to extend to the full 60 days
so that brings me to the next thing, that the visa is valid for an initial 30 day period but
but you can extend to 60 days if you want to.
so that means you can arrive anywhere in Indonesia. Erm, get the visa on arrival and then whist you're having such an amazing time here
you can decide that you want to extend for another 30 days
go to immigration. Get another stamp.Get another visa and extend for another 30 days
at another cost of 500,000 IDR or $35
Ok, so that brings me to the next bit of information and a very important one.
you CAN NOT, you CAN NOT exchange your visa on arrival for any other type of visa
whist you're here in Indonesia.
so if you arrive on your visa on arrival you can not exchange it to any kind of ITAS or anything like that
or any type of work permit, any type of stay permit - If you want to do anything like that, you would then have to leave the country
reapply and do everything again from scratch. So just bear that in mind if you're coming on a VOA
that is your visa for your whole duration time here in Indonesia, unless you're willing to do a visa run in which case
the world is your oyster again. Just leading from that, the other thing to bear in mind is that you can not convert it to any kind of onshore visa
there are onshore visas available at the moment but there are rumours of that going soon, that was a thing that came in with Covid
so dont expect to be able to arrive on your VOA and then convert it to an Onshore B211 business visa because you will not be allowed to do that.
the VOA is the only visa type you can have whist you're here
ok the next thing to note is where you can fly into in Indonesia. So the big one for us and the students on our courses is that Denpasar and Jakarta
are both options for you to fly into. So you can fly direct to Bali or if you want to you can fly to Jakarta.
and have a little time there and then come to Bali
but i'm going to put a list
of all the ports of entry you can arrive into Indonesia and get your visa on arrival.
leading from that the next piece of information is that you can leave through a different port of exit compared to your port of entry
so for example i fly to Denpasar and i want to leave through Jakarta that is absolutely fine. You don't need to fly out of the same airport or port of exit
that you came into.
and the last thing to know is that there are at the moment 43 countries that are valid for VOA entry.
One thing that you've got to bear in mind is that means you must be a citizen and hold a passport of those countries
you can't just have spent 14 days there and think that is ok to come in on and get your VOA
you have to have a passport from one of the 43 countries and again i will put a list on the screen
but, yes, all the big ones are there for our course but there are other ones on there as well but there are also a few strange ones that are not on that list so be careful with that.