Thread: NEW How to extend 30 day VOA w/out leaving the country?

Does the return ticket have to be within the 30 days or 60 days?

Can you enter in DPS and extend in Manado?

Does you need a domestic sponsor to extend?

Hi balibule
I'm still living on rubber time here. I do understand your questions...unfortunately, I can't answer them.

As our Admin asks:

Wouldn't life be so much more simpler if they had a website set up to convey this kind of information?

Yes and Maybe.

"They" already have a website.
It's always out-of-date (assuming it works in the first place).
We all love broken, non-functioning links, don't we?
"Corruption" appears to be endemic in this country.
No end in sight...

I read a comment somewhere recently which asserted that some Indonesian officials are talking about what features you get with this year's model of the Toyota Kijang? "Office talk". How much more money will they have to extract to keep up with the Jones's?

:D

Hi

I actually got through with a phone call to the Ngurah Rai immigration office (it took me 4 phone calls untill I had the right person on the line). The lady I talked to was incredibely lazy with answering my questions. On my last question on if they had a website to confirm her answers, she put me on hold and after 2 minutes she just put down the phone. Very rude (as usual). Maybe she should be looking for another job :)

Either way,

Return ticket can be later than 30 days

The price of extending is USD 25

To extend you need to go to Ngurah Rai immigration (not Renon)

You can only extend after already entering Bali, so you cannot apply for a 60 day VOA

You can extend at any international airport, so you can enter in Bali and extend in Manado if you wish.

Again, the above info was gained through a phone call so there could be details missing.

Don't know how it works elsewhere but in Oz you can get a 60 day visa before you even leave for $60aud .
So my thoughts are that if you have any intention of staying after 30 days then just get the 60 day visa before even going.
Especially as to extend the visa in bali is another $25USD plus all the drama of going back to Immigrasi at the airport which can be an exercise in frustration at the best of times. :evil:

Cheers
Ken

true

I actually got through with a phone call to the Ngurah Rai immigration office (it took me 4 phone calls until I had the right person on the line). The lady I talked to was incredibly lazy with answering my questions. On my last question on if they had a website to confirm her answers, she put me on hold and after 2 minutes she just put down the phone.

Sadly, your experience is not that unusual these days.

I'm not sure of the veracity of the information you were given...

...Again, the above info was gained through a phone call so there could be details missing.

I think there can be little doubt that various Indonesian "authorities" have no interest in making clear, unambiguous and accurate information freely available that everybody can both access and understand.

Why don't they simply grant everyone a 30 days' visa, that can be extended anywhere in the country? Sixty days days would be even better. Too hard? Too simplistic?

Sounds reasonable enough to me compared to the current bureaucratic, totally inefficient, money-grubbing nonsense they have in place. What are they afraid of? (The loss of some extra illegal income opportunities springs to mind.)

8)

Markit,

I agree, I have never had my return tickets checked on entry. I have however, had my return ticket checked by airline in Australia when leaving! :roll: