Hi folks
I'm so happy and just would like to share my happiness and experience with you.
I have migrated in April 2023 from Switzerland to Indonesia on a Visa 317, ikut isteri. My wife is ex WNI so she came with a repatriation visa. Due to the fact that my mother is heavily sick back home, we have started the kitas to kitap conversion after about 6 month after our arrival.
The whole process, from Visa to ITAS to ITAP went very smooth. There was NO need for extra money to the officers. The interview has taken place twice, once for my wife which lasted about 1 hour and was semi-formal and the second interview for my self was quite a bit of fun.
As I was present at the first interview for my wife and due to the fact, that exact the same immigration officers conducted the second interview for me, they were running out of questions. So we had about 10 minutes a kind of formal interview and the rest of the 2 hours we had been talking about everything else.
There were 3 officers, me, my wife and the sponsor, so everyone talked to one of the three officers about different topics. I thought, they don't leave again.
When they realised in the very first interview, that I'm fluent in bahasa Indonesia, they were quite impressed and became very friendly.
Today, I just got my passport back with the 5 years KITAP card. I'm still excited, that all went so smooth, after I heard all the horror stories.
I would like to say thanks to all the officers at immigration Bandung, well done !!
I'm so happy and just would like to share my happiness and experience with you.
I have migrated in April 2023 from Switzerland to Indonesia on a Visa 317, ikut isteri. My wife is ex WNI so she came with a repatriation visa. Due to the fact that my mother is heavily sick back home, we have started the kitas to kitap conversion after about 6 month after our arrival.
The whole process, from Visa to ITAS to ITAP went very smooth. There was NO need for extra money to the officers. The interview has taken place twice, once for my wife which lasted about 1 hour and was semi-formal and the second interview for my self was quite a bit of fun.
As I was present at the first interview for my wife and due to the fact, that exact the same immigration officers conducted the second interview for me, they were running out of questions. So we had about 10 minutes a kind of formal interview and the rest of the 2 hours we had been talking about everything else.
There were 3 officers, me, my wife and the sponsor, so everyone talked to one of the three officers about different topics. I thought, they don't leave again.
When they realised in the very first interview, that I'm fluent in bahasa Indonesia, they were quite impressed and became very friendly.
Today, I just got my passport back with the 5 years KITAP card. I'm still excited, that all went so smooth, after I heard all the horror stories.
I would like to say thanks to all the officers at immigration Bandung, well done !!
for mine my wife is the sponsor(mine is also through Bandung)
after almost 4 months there was no update so I had to go to Jakarta to ask. The guard there went upstairs to ask for us and 15 minutes later it was approved. He said they forgot to click the button in their system.
