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    Default Re: ONE MORE 60 day Tourist Visa question...

    ...consulates all over the region - KL, Singapore, Penang, Johor Bharu, Bangkok - issue 60-day non-sponsored B211s to tourists. You can get them without recourse to an agent in all those places. Don't think it's "illegal".
    I stand corrected.

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    Default Re: ONE MORE 60 day Tourist Visa question...

    Woooooaaa there Hos, just a minute.
    Quote Originally Posted by timdog
    Actually, the 60-tourist visa can also be extended, in theory up to six months, just like a social visa.
    I am often a little simple but as of my last treatment there was no such thing as a 60 day tourist visa - there was a 30 day tourist visa that is now extendible to 60 days OR a 60 day "Social" visa that can be extended 4 times to give 6 months - the famous 211 visa.

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    I am often a little simple but as of my last treatment there was no such thing as a 60 day tourist visa - there was a 30 day tourist visa that is now extendible to 60 days OR a 60 day "Social" visa that can be extended 4 times to give 6 months - the famous 211 visa.
    Wrong - there was a 60 day tourist visa which you could apply for in advance of travel. It used not be possible to extend it but in the last 18 months or so it seems that people on the 60 day tourist visa have been getting it extended. I haven't read the thread on the latest changes so not sure if the 60 day tourist visa is still available but certainly it has been in the past.
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    Default Re: ONE MORE 60 day Tourist Visa question...

    visa 211 (60 day visa) is still issued to tourists by Indonesian consulates/embassies. This visa canbe extended 4 times by 1 month, giving the holder a total of 6 month in Indonesia. For the second extension it is necessary to go to immigration for interview, photo and finger printing, and at that point you also need a sponsor, which is not too hard to organise. The fee for each 1 month extension is officially posted in the immigration office as being around Rp400.000. However, the fee you end up paying depends on whether you use a visa agent, and on how "hungry" the immigration official is.

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    Default Re: ONE MORE 60 day Tourist Visa question...

    sorry, that's a sticky key on my side; when I wrote:
    However, there are no regular reports of people extending these visas at imigrasi offices across the country.
    what I meant was there are NOW regular reports...

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    I am often a little simple but as of my last treatment there was no such thing as a 60 day tourist visa - there was a 30 day tourist visa that is now extendible to 60 days OR a 60 day "Social" visa that can be extended 4 times to give 6 months - the famous 211 visa.
    Right from the time the 30-day "tourist" visa on arrival was introduced (replacing the old 60-day free arrival stamp) you have been free to apply for a sixty day visa as a tourist. I've had lots of them. They always shared a code with the 60-day social and business visa (both of which I've also had in the past too) - namely B211. The only difference was that you required no sponsor to get it, and in theory, in the past, you couldn't extend it (as it wasn't "sponsored").

    Now you CAN, with exactly the same rules applied as those for a "social"; lots of people have done it, though I haven't heard yet of anyone extending a "tourist" B211 up to the full six month limit.
    Have a look on various Indonesia-related travel forums for first-hand reports if you don't believe me.
    Widder's account sounds spot on - though I'm sure I've read reports of people extending it for free in Surabaya and Ambon. It still exists: I'm on one now.

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    Default Re: ONE MORE 60 day Tourist Visa question...

    Sorry if it sounded like I disbelieved anyone on visas!

    I have learned that almost anything you say about Indo visas is (or soon will be) true.

    More to the point I would love a document in any other language than Indonesian that firmly stipulates what the exact details about all the available visas are and how, exactly, anyone goes about getting them. :roll:

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    Default Re: ONE MORE 60 day Tourist Visa question...

    Hey everyone - thanks for all the info on Indo visas.

    I just scored a 60-day visa from the consulate here in Ho Chi Minh city. A quick affair. Popped in Tuesday afternoon, visa ready on Thursday. Had I gotten in earlier on Tuesday, perhaps a quicker turnaround. And there are prob visa services in HCMC as well but I didn't check it as I don't mind the legwork. Required: $45 in USD. Copies of my inbound and outbound flight "tickets." (Don't they know anyone can forge this e-ticket shit without a problem?). My outbound is in 4 months - I said I would extend it there. They said this was hard, so I said I would fly to Singapore if it didn't work out. Poof, got the 60 days.

    The change in VOA to a 60-day limit is that anyone trying to sort out a 60-day tourist visa beforehand is going to look a little suspect. Sure, the local immigration offices might get swamped (be interesting to find out the turn-around time on the 30 day extension) but it's probably easier than the 2-3 days these things can take.

    So anyone getting a tourist visa in advance may appear like they're looking to stay even longer. Or worse, they may discontinue it completely and lose the B211 extension loophole.

    Curious anyone's thoughts.

    Another question: When extending this B211 "tourist visa" that I have, what sort of restrictions are there? It sounds like I can do it anywhere, but can I do it in say Lombok the first time, then Bali the second, etc, or I must I stay in one spot for further extensions? How far in advance can you extend it? Within a week of expiration? A month? There must be a guideline here....?

    I'm moving to Bali so I look forward to meeting everyone!

    Peace!

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