Visa on Arrival to Indonesia (VOA) is available to citizens of 97 countries.
The visa is stamped in your passport at the airport upon arrival and is valid for 30 days + one extension of 30 days.
After that you must leave Indonesia (you can not get a new visa in the country without a flight).
The visa costs 500 000 IDR (~$35).
Visa extension:
When to start the process
You need to start the process 14 working days before your current visa expires. At least 10 working days before the deadline, we must have your passport in our possession.
Your passport with entry stamp is required for all extensions.
❗️ If your passport or entry stamp is damaged (torn, wet, etc.), the immigration office may not accept your passport for renewal.
We are not responsible for a successful renewal in this case.
To extend your visa on arrival, you will need to fill out an application form, a link to which we will send you. Be sure to attach a photo of your passport and a photo of your passport entry stamp to the form.
- 800 000 IDR – if you contacted us at least 6 working days before the expiration of your visa.
- 1 300 000 IDR – if you contacted us less than 6 working days frame.
- 1 500 000 IDR – for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, African countries. The extension process for these countries is longer.
- 1 800 000 IDR – if your passport is valid for 6 months or less.
- Contact us for a consultation.
- Fill out the form.
- Give us your passport and payment.
- We submit your documents to the Immigration Office.
- We invite you for biometrics at the Immigration Office, as soon as we receive an invitation for you (attention, the invitation often comes closer to the visa expiration date or even after, this is normal!). We will send an invitation to the messenger where we communicated with you.
- You are going through biometrics.
- Your passport will be returned to us approximately 5 business days after your visit to the Immigration Office.
- You receive an email that the passport has returned from extension procedure, and in your personal account the status changes to “RETURNED”, after that you need to text us to pick up the passport yourself or order a courier.
Our courier will arrive for your passport at your location, at the time agreed in advance. Courier departure is free, except for departures to very remote areas of the island.
Please note that if you were not on the spot at the agreed time, then a second departure of the courier costs 100 000 IDR.
On average, when you renew, you give your passport 2 weeks.
An expedited process is available. When expediting, we will be guided by your timeline. While the normal process can take about two to three weeks, the expedited process will take 3 to 7 business days. It will all depend on what stage of the renewal process you apply for acceleration.
Fingerprinting and facial biometrics are compulsory.
Usually the invitation to undergo biometrics comes the day before your visa expires. Sometimes it may come later, but this is normal. We will send the invitation in advance to one of the two Immigration Offices:
Address of the Immigration Office Ngurah Rai
Address of the Immigration Office Denpasar
You can choose a convenient Immigration Office when you hand over your passport to us, just email us. It will not be possible to change Immigration Office if we submit the documents.
The invitation for biometrics will have detailed instructions about the biometrics.
If you want to cancel the extension, we will not refund the payment.
Answers to frequently asked questions
There are officially no restrictions. But if you regularly depart and fly back with a visa on arrival, the border officer may ask why you are not issued long-term visas such as b211 or d212, for example.
Unfortunately, the Immigration platform is not working properly. And if you submitted the documents yourself, then you will have to resolve all the issues yourself; the agency will not be able to help you.
No, it is absolutely necessary to fly out to avoid overstaying. But for those for whom a visa on arrival was not enough, the currently popular solution may be suitable. You can apply for b211 or d212 in advance, then fly out for 1 day and return to the country with a long-term visa.