INFORMATION AND COMMUNITY FOR EXPATS IN INDONESIA
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Info required on current retirement visa cost please
Spouse sponsored Kitas is your better option as snpark said . I've been through the process . Come to Indonesia on a tourist visa , get married while here , return to your home country and apply for a Vitas /limtied stay Spouse Sponsored Permit/Visa through a recommended agent . Once you get...- Nicho
- Post #21
- Forum: General Information and Settling In
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Five Year KITAP (family reunification - spouse sponsored) Eligibility
Alhi Status is Indonesian for Change of Status which you will have to apply for when you change from the yearly limited stay KITAS to the 5 year permanent stay KITAP . Bit more paperwork involved in the change , Letter of Recognition of Marriage from your home country consulate/embassy in the...- Nicho
- Post #8
- Forum: Visas, Permits and Immigration
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Are ITAS / ITAP visas still renewable inside Indonesia without leaving the country?
Lived here 7 years , 5 on the spouse sponsored ITAS . Now on ITAP . Have never had to leave the country for any renewals or the conversion from ITAS to ITAP . All done by myself at the Jember Imigration office here in Jawa Timur . Never heard of anyone having to leave the country for an ITAS...- Nicho
- Post #3
- Forum: Visas, Permits and Immigration
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Driving at 17?
Most kids are riding motorbikes before they can ride a pushbike , my sons been riding since he was 7, now 16 but he's been taught the road rules and warned that if he's seen riding like an idiot like the rest of them the motorbike goes and he's grounded for 6 months.- Nicho
- Post #16
- Forum: General Chat
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Driving at 17?
I live in S/East Java , Banyuwangi region . It's Raferties rules everywhere here , both motorbikes and cars . Been here 7 years and met one local with a SIM which had expired 5 years earlier . Kids get a motorbike like kids in other countries get a pushbike , no intructions /supervision from...- Nicho
- Post #15
- Forum: General Chat
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Do I have to have travel/health insurance?
Lived here nearly 7 years and never been asked for Health Insurance card when renewing Kitas or Converting to Kitap . Been to local health clinic several times , never been asked for proof of health insurance , they were happy with Kitap Card , SKTTS and Domicle letters from the Kepala Desa ...- Nicho
- Post #26
- Forum: General Chat
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Living Ubud Bali
Hit the nail on the head there . LAZY !! . They'll throw rubbish anywhere and everywhere ,don't give a !!!! about the environment that 95% of them rely on to live . I live in a fishing village in S/East Java , filthiest cess pit you could imagine . I've owned orchards here only to find the...- Nicho
- Post #14
- Forum: Where to Live?
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Five Year KITAP (family reunification - spouse sponsored) Eligibility
Just did the change of status , Alhi Status to the 5 year Kitap . Did it myself , easy process and saved a heap of $$$ / Rp compared to an agent . 6,750,000rp compared to anything from 15,000,000 to 30,000,000rp I've heard of people paying through an agent . Imigration require a Letter of...- Nicho
- Post #6
- Forum: Visas, Permits and Immigration
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MERP Extension Online
Your in the country illegally through a bodgey set up by a bodgey agent and will face deportation if found out , also won't be able to return to the country for 10 years possibly never . I'd be going through a registered agent . First you'd have to get married and possibly have to leave the...- Nicho
- Post #15
- Forum: Visas, Permits and Immigration
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Indonesian Citizen Benefits
Sure theres a few ex fisherman , goat keepers practicing as Doctors down here in S/East Java . A quick wave of the forked stick , a hand full of pills out of a draw full and your done . Got a few mechanics that wouldn't get jobs as shit house cleaners in other countries as well . Any...- Nicho
- Post #12
- Forum: The Ex-WNI Forum
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Kitas to Kitap Conversion in remote parts of Java .
Hi Willow , got my Kitap in October last year after getting the run around by a female officer at the Jember Immigration office . All the crap she told me about having to take my application to Surabaya then Jakarta was just that "CRAP" . She was no where to be seen when I went and did the...- Nicho
- Post #5
- Forum: Introductions and Newbie Corner
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Import car to Bali
Classed as a luxury item ! Anything with a motor over 4litres is twice as much again ! Make sure you go over anything with a fine toothed comb and a magnet , I looked at buying a Kombi , immaculate , until the magnet wouldn't stick in all the known rust spots . Full of bog , there masters with !!- Nicho
- Post #12
- Forum: Export, Import, Moving-in, moving-out
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Import car to Bali
- Nicho
- Post #10
- Forum: Export, Import, Moving-in, moving-out
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Hello hello
Yep one has to convert to the others religion . 9 times out of ten of the females are Muslim and the family will disown her and shun her from the village if she goes against tradition and converts to a christian religion . All your Indonesian paperwork is marked as Islam if you convert , you...- Nicho
- Post #8
- Forum: Introductions and Newbie Corner
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Applying for indonesian birth certificate and passport for a child
Yep , every province ,region ,office ,officer . I had the same guy for all Kitas renewals , everything went smooth , 3-7 days . Emailed and rang me if he needed anything , rang me when it was ready to pick up . Then I go for the Alhi Status and there's the bitch who had her own interpretation of...- Nicho
- Post #19
- Forum: Visas, Permits and Immigration
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Applying for indonesian birth certificate and passport for a child
Wow , Imigrasi Jember didn't come for the home interview for just on 6 weeks , guy said they wait until they get a few then spend a few days travelling around to the applicants that live a long distance from the office , then another 2-3weeks before they told me the interview was all good and to...- Nicho
- Post #17
- Forum: Visas, Permits and Immigration
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Applying for indonesian birth certificate and passport for a child
Yes , 4 months nearly to the day to Change the Status / ALHI STATUS from Kitas to Kitap . Was 3 months before all the Covid Crap . Not sure about Kitas now , I went through an agent in Surabaya (which I've found out is the most expensive in Indonesia ) when I got my Vitas then converted to Kitas...- Nicho
- Post #15
- Forum: Visas, Permits and Immigration
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Applying for indonesian birth certificate and passport for a child
Only ever had an SKTT letter and a Letter of Domisili from the local Kepala Desa in the 6 years I've lived here , which have been accepted by all government offices I've dealt with . Local Dudukcapil wouldn't issue me a SKTT or KTP card or new KK ,family card without the KITAP .- Nicho
- Post #14
- Forum: Visas, Permits and Immigration
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Applying for indonesian birth certificate and passport for a child
Hi , Re your question on the 17th Nov about having to go to Jakarta to hand in Kitap Application . Your original post had replies blocked . The Jember office sent all my paperwork via inter-office mail to the Director Generals Dept in Surabaya for processing. Nothing went to Jakarta as far as I...- Nicho
- Post #12
- Forum: Visas, Permits and Immigration
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Mosque loudspeakers
Gotten worse here in S/East Java over the last few years . I travelled back and forth for 8 years , there were only 2 mosques in the village and they only did the prayer calls , 5am and 5pm which only lasted 5 minutes . The occasional jibber if something was happening which was fine . Moved up...- Nicho
- Post #46
- Forum: Indonesian Language and Culture
