1. Be married to an Indonesian citizen. No need to be married for any period of time. Be willing to leave Indonesia (not applicable if you are already out of Indonesia) to process visa. Have relevant documents. Be willing to travel to Jakarta, or find someone there who will go for you to pay the rather token sum of 100k rupiah.
2. Scan all the following documents as jpegs, size less than 400kb.
(a) Every page of your passport (suggest front and back as well, to avoid anal Indonesian problems. One page/double page per jpg. Suggest minimum 21 months validity (12 months for kitas, six months for minimum passport validity at end of KITAS, plus 3 months for processing, leaving Indonesia, etc.) Passport should have free space:
* full clean page for ITAS visa
* entry/exit stamp for 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] country
* entry stamp for entry into Indonesia
* combined stamp for KITAS & IMK
(b) KK (family card) in name of spouse
(c) KTP (identity card) for spouse
(d) Marriage certificate
(e) If married outside Indonesia, 'surat laporan perkawinan di luar negeri' is required from your catatan sipil. This should be completed essentially immediately after marriage, following return to Indonesia. However you may be able to arrange a later date.
(f) Surat pernyataan dan jaminan - download here and fill in
https://goo.gl/14iaSA Print out, affix 6000IDR materai stamp and sign (in name of Indonesian citizen) which must go partly on top of materai
(g) If married in Indonesia, a certificate of no impediment from your embassy (note: should be obtained before marriage!)
(h) Surat permohonan - download
https://goo.gl/RPEJmg and sign in Indonesian citizenship name with materai as above
(i) bank statement with minimum balance of 2.5 mill rupiah (suggest more!) in name of Indonesian
2. Register online in the name of your Indonesian spouse at
https://goo.gl/9UG9gH (note if you register in your own (foreigner) name you will NOT be able to process the visa, it must be done as the Indonesian citizen). This requires validation of the email, and you can probably only register Monday-Friday. They will ask you for scans of Indonesian citizen's KTP (id card), Kartu Keluarga (family card) and NPWP (tax card). In practice you do not seem to need the NPWP and where it is required you can probably just upload the KTP again, and put some zeroes in the form as relevant.
3. After the account has been activated, make an application online for a visa for 'suami ikut istri WNI', or 'istri ikut suami WNI' as applicable. There is a limit on the number of applications per day, so doing the application between midnight and noon is a good idea to avoid being cut off till the next day (or Monday!) You will need to upload all of the scans listed above in the three sections provided. You can choose your chosen Indonesian consulate or embassy abroad during this process, where you (the foreigner) will fly to collect the visa.
4. After the application has been submitted online with all the documents, you should receive an email the same day (if you submitted your application in the middle of the night/early morning), or the next day (if you submitted afternoon), inviting you to come to South Jakarta immigration to pay the sum of 100,000 rupiah. This can NOT be done online. But you do not have to go in person, you can grant power of attorney to someone.
Download power of attorney here:
https://goo.gl/EpZxnK Power of attorney must be fixed with materai 6ribu at middle bottom, such that both signatures spread onto the materai (left and right side)
Either way, the email will tell you to bring a handful of documents to Jakarta. Ignore this and bring photocopies of ALL of the documents above (a to i), with the exception that you can just bring the passport data page, not the whole book. In addition, the documents which you signed and affixed with materai should all be the originals. The documents need to be in a GREEN folder, otherwise you will be told to go away. To send the documents to Jakarta you can use the Indonesian post office, or Tiki service tiki.id. Bear in mind that whatever service you use will arrive too late for same day trip to immigration, so you must go the next day. In addition, Indonesian civil servants don't do much work on Fridays, so if you submit on Friday then you probably can wait too. If you are in a hurry you can post the documents to your Jakarta contact immediately upon online submission.
5. After payment, your application MIGHT be completed the same afternoon but then it could take several days. Approval should arrive to your sponsor's email, but you can check the application status online at
http://visa.imigrasi.go.id using the application number from the email you received when you submitted the document. If it shows as complete, and you haven't received an email, then send an email to
[email protected] with the relevant reference numbers and they should send you the form within 24 hours - do not wait, email as soon as it shows complete online.
7. After the visa is approved, you can fly to your appointed foreign Indonesian consulate/embassy - note that it will be closed on all Indonesian and foreign holidays, and will be very busy the day after, and probably on Mondays. Visa submission will typically be in the morning, and collection the next day, so plan accordingly.
Requirements in Penang:
1 * 3x4 passport photo any background
1 * print out of approval email from immigration in jakarta
1 * filled out application form, only available in the office, bring your own black pen
1 * photocopy of passport data page (other pages NOT required) - free photocopying available in back, but to save time bring your own photocopy
395 MYR cash visa fee
Submission from 9:30am till lunch time ish (sorry not sure the exact time)
Collection NEXT working day (not same day) after 2pm (so don't apply on a Friday! or the day before a holiday)
Not required, but may be asked for in other locations, so you might as well bring them:
* all the documents above such as marriage certificates etc.
* letter to consulate from spouse sponsoring visa
8. After visa is entered into passport, fly back to Indonesia and make immediate report at
https://goo.gl/Jxk7Xc
You get an email telling you to visit the relevant local immigration office.
In order to go there you must bring all your documents again. In addition, you will ALSO need to bring a Surat Domisili from Kepala Desa.
You will also have to fill in several forms:
* KITAS application form, there was a section to be signed by 'kuasa' (power of attorney) - my wife signed this, it wasn't clear if that was correct, but no complaints
* Foreigner new data form, again with signature by spouse.
* One photo (6x4, red background although they said it doesn’t matter)
* Surat jaminan from the local office (similar to the one above), signed by your spouse with materai 6,000 RP
After you have filled these forms in, they tell you to come back in two days at a specific time to have fingerprints and photos. This could be done immediately, but probably they make you wait, as they want you to use an agent for the ‘express’ service.
You must also pay 2.055m IDR
* KITAS 1 year (electronic only) 1m IDR.
* IMK 1 year (re-entry permit) 1mIDR.
* Information Technology fee (not sure if this is national) 55k IDR
So you come back after two days and they take your photo & fingerprints (in the email from Jakarta they said 'interview', but I had none), and then they tell you to come back again in two more days to collect the passport and KITAS card. In my case, I sent someone to pick up my passport. They called me and were not happy about this and said 'don't do it again, passport is serious business'. But they still gave it out.
Note: Indonesian bureaucrats are NOT there to make your life easy. Bear in mind
* arrive before 11am
* no shorts/no flipflops etc
* you should have ALL of the required documents to avoid a bad time. If you don't have them now then expect to need them in the future so best just to suck it up and organise ALL the required paperwork, so you can just smile sweetly and hand over everything the bureacurat demands to make your life difficult.
Total cost guide (minimum!):
* 0.1m IDR Jakarta online fee
* ~0.3m for someone to process the payment for you in Jakarta
* 2.055m for KITAS/IMK/IT fee
* 1.25m (approx) visa fee in Penang
* 0.1m various costs of photocopying, scanning, posting, etc.
* 1.7m return ticket to Penang with transport to and from airports
* 0.3m accommodation Penang
* .15m transport to Penang consulate
* 0.3m IDR three trips to local imigrasi
So total is around 6-6.5m IDR for everything, if you are already in Indonesia. And minimum time:
Mon - submit application, post documents to contact in Jakarta
Tue - documents arrive in Jakarta
Wed - payment is made in Jakarta by your contact
Fri - decision arrives from Jakarta
Sun- fly to Penang
Mon - apply in Penang
Tue - get visa in Penang, fly back to Indonesia
Wed - get Surat Keterangan Domisili from kepala desa
Thur - go to imigrasi with docs
Mon - go back for photos
Wed - collect passport & KITAS
So the time frame - minimum - is 2.5 weeks. And you need 3 days in Penang, and 3 days in your local imigrasi, more or less. Note that the expiry date of your KITAS seems to be the date of your entry on the ITAS visa, NOT the date when you actually receive it (which could be up to a maximum of 4 weeks later if you delay things - but no more, as you have only a 30-day entry permit initially)
If you are NOT already in Indonesia then you may not need to fly to an embassy, so can save money that way.
Starting Oct 26 there will also be the option to convert social visa to KITAS online, as well as online KITAS extension.
