Lemonyellow
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This is my experience of ITAS to ITAP (spousal) conversion - my 4th Kitas will be expiring in march 2022 and given all the COVID situation I wanted to apply for the conversion bit of earlier, and I thought probably it would take more than six months! I've also read Nicho s post about converting itas to itap which took long and seemed complicated! But probably I'm lucky enough to get it done in less than 2 months. So here are the documents that I needed to submit and procedures I needed to follow :
01 Nov, 2021 - I went to the local KanIm with my wife in the morning, we straight went to the front desk and the lady told us to wait while she took my passport and handed to another officer. After a while that officer called us in his room and started to explain the procedure of converting itas to itap. As I know all of these already I was just nodding my head and I asked him, would it be much longer than usual because of the COVID situation ? He replied - we would try to make it as quick as possible! Then he told us to wait and he went to consult with his boss! He came back after 5 mins and quoted ' we will make it quick and it will be 30 jt' I really felt sorry that I wasn't paying attention so I asked my wife 30 what ? She said 30 jt' we have to pay him 30 jt. I said for what ? Now he replied If you want to do it by yourself you can. I said yes we are going to do it by ourselves like we did it in 2018 ( my sosbud to Kitas conversion ) he said okay then, and I asked him why 30 jt' ? He replied ' tiket bolak balik Jakarta ' ( I'm from Riau btw)
So apart from the little conversation everything went fine we were given 3 forms to fill out and the documents we needed to submit were :
copy of non empty pages of passport
copy of SKTT
copy of sponsor KTP and KK
copy of current ITAS
copy of buku nikah (marriage certificate)
copy of my no impediment of marriage certificate , I had no idea why they asked for it but I still have some photocopies left so it was easy.
After that we were given the payment slip and told to pay within one week and wait for the home interview . The amount was 6.75 jt, 5 jt for ITAP and 1.75 for 2 two years of MERP. The following day we paid it.
11 Nov, 2021 home interview : they were kind enough to let us know that they will be coming to our home to check the address so we stayed at the home. At around 10 in the morning 3 immigration officers came to our home. It was quick, just only asked a few questions and had our photos taken. One of the photos was Infront of our home number and one with our son even though he was disturbed! He is 20 months old now. Before they left they said they also wanted to take photo with pak RT, so my brother in law went to pak RTs home but the RT wasn't home so they left without taking the photo with the RT.
That afternoon I got a call from kanIm, the officer said if we could check pak RT already home yet or not, because they must take a photo with him. Now that's new thing because when I had my first Kitas they didn't ask for it. But anyway things always change so I went to pak RT s home and luckily he was home and told him to come by home after half an hour, so I called the immigration officer and he came alone this time took couple of photos, one with the RT and one with me and left.
16 nov,2021 Photo and fingerprints : We were told to go to the kanIm for photo and fingerprints, they WhatsApp my wife's no. By the time it was done it's already lunch hour so they told us come the next day to take file to KanWil. So the next day went back to kanIm, they gave us the file and told to photocopy all of them before taking it to KanWil. After that we went to KanWil, which is couple of min scooter ride from kanIm, where the front desk lady said 'it will take 3 days to 1 week to complete then the kanIm will inform us' now that's also new for me because in 2018 we sent our file by courier to Jakarta (Ditjen imigrasi), I asked her about it and she replied she had no idea who's going to send to Jakarta! Well then we left the file at kanwil. We waited one week and WhatsApp kanIm to check the status, the lady replied ' it's pending for approval from the ditjen' and she also sent us a screenshot.
Fast forward to 18 Dec, 2021 - I checked my email and found my itas to itap conversion application was already completed in 17th Dec, it was Saturday so I waited till today. In the morning I texted kanIm whether I could come and get my passport and the lady replied just an hour ago, it's complete and tomorrow I can get my passport. So that's it, my itas to itap conversion, took less than 2 months without any extra fees, the next thing will be applying for KTP and hope it will be easier too.
01 Nov, 2021 - I went to the local KanIm with my wife in the morning, we straight went to the front desk and the lady told us to wait while she took my passport and handed to another officer. After a while that officer called us in his room and started to explain the procedure of converting itas to itap. As I know all of these already I was just nodding my head and I asked him, would it be much longer than usual because of the COVID situation ? He replied - we would try to make it as quick as possible! Then he told us to wait and he went to consult with his boss! He came back after 5 mins and quoted ' we will make it quick and it will be 30 jt' I really felt sorry that I wasn't paying attention so I asked my wife 30 what ? She said 30 jt' we have to pay him 30 jt. I said for what ? Now he replied If you want to do it by yourself you can. I said yes we are going to do it by ourselves like we did it in 2018 ( my sosbud to Kitas conversion ) he said okay then, and I asked him why 30 jt' ? He replied ' tiket bolak balik Jakarta ' ( I'm from Riau btw)
So apart from the little conversation everything went fine we were given 3 forms to fill out and the documents we needed to submit were :
copy of non empty pages of passport
copy of SKTT
copy of sponsor KTP and KK
copy of current ITAS
copy of buku nikah (marriage certificate)
copy of my no impediment of marriage certificate , I had no idea why they asked for it but I still have some photocopies left so it was easy.
After that we were given the payment slip and told to pay within one week and wait for the home interview . The amount was 6.75 jt, 5 jt for ITAP and 1.75 for 2 two years of MERP. The following day we paid it.
11 Nov, 2021 home interview : they were kind enough to let us know that they will be coming to our home to check the address so we stayed at the home. At around 10 in the morning 3 immigration officers came to our home. It was quick, just only asked a few questions and had our photos taken. One of the photos was Infront of our home number and one with our son even though he was disturbed! He is 20 months old now. Before they left they said they also wanted to take photo with pak RT, so my brother in law went to pak RTs home but the RT wasn't home so they left without taking the photo with the RT.
That afternoon I got a call from kanIm, the officer said if we could check pak RT already home yet or not, because they must take a photo with him. Now that's new thing because when I had my first Kitas they didn't ask for it. But anyway things always change so I went to pak RT s home and luckily he was home and told him to come by home after half an hour, so I called the immigration officer and he came alone this time took couple of photos, one with the RT and one with me and left.
16 nov,2021 Photo and fingerprints : We were told to go to the kanIm for photo and fingerprints, they WhatsApp my wife's no. By the time it was done it's already lunch hour so they told us come the next day to take file to KanWil. So the next day went back to kanIm, they gave us the file and told to photocopy all of them before taking it to KanWil. After that we went to KanWil, which is couple of min scooter ride from kanIm, where the front desk lady said 'it will take 3 days to 1 week to complete then the kanIm will inform us' now that's also new for me because in 2018 we sent our file by courier to Jakarta (Ditjen imigrasi), I asked her about it and she replied she had no idea who's going to send to Jakarta! Well then we left the file at kanwil. We waited one week and WhatsApp kanIm to check the status, the lady replied ' it's pending for approval from the ditjen' and she also sent us a screenshot.
Fast forward to 18 Dec, 2021 - I checked my email and found my itas to itap conversion application was already completed in 17th Dec, it was Saturday so I waited till today. In the morning I texted kanIm whether I could come and get my passport and the lady replied just an hour ago, it's complete and tomorrow I can get my passport. So that's it, my itas to itap conversion, took less than 2 months without any extra fees, the next thing will be applying for KTP and hope it will be easier too.
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