The residence routes to Indonesia: KITAS, Second Home and the clocks
Visa, ITAS and the registration with Dukcapil are three different things, and whoever mixes them up gets stuck. The routes in a row, as the immigration service describes them: the E33F retirement visa from 55 with 3,000 dollars of income a month, the Silver Hair and the Second Home with a deposit, the remote worker, and the clocks that tick through all of them.
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For a pensioner aged 55 or over the E33F visa is the usual route to Indonesia, with a demonstrated income of 3,000 dollars a month. Whoever wants to invest chooses the Second Home with a deposit of 130,000 dollars.
Whoever googles "a visa for Bali" finds a forest of codes and agents. The structure underneath is simpler than it looks, if you keep three concepts apart and know the clocks.
The find is with the immigration service itself: the E33F visa prohibits not only employment, but also selling goods or services.
Visa, ITAS, SKTT: three things, one chain
You apply for the eVisa online through the immigration service's official portal, and you must use it within ninety days of issue to enter Indonesia. The immigration service itself warns that the validity of the visa is something other than the length of your stay. On entry you get the ITAS, the actual residence permit, as an electronic permit and on request as a card.
And then comes the link that almost every site skips: within fourteen days of your ITAS being issued you report to Dukcapil, the civil registry, for the SKTT, the proof of your home address. How that counter works is in SKTT and NPWP in Indonesia.
The routes in a row
| Route | For whom | Core of the requirement | Costs according to the immigration service |
|---|---|---|---|
| E33F, retirement | aged 55 or over | 3,000 dollars a month of income, a bank statement with at least 2,000 dollars over three months, a guarantor | Rp7,000,000 for one year |
| E33E, Silver Hair | older people, up to 5 years | 3,000 dollars a month, and the commitment to deposit 50,000 dollars at a state-owned bank | not stated |
| E33, Second Home | up to 5 years | within 90 days of arrival 130,000 dollars at a state-owned bank, or property of 1 million dollars | Rp13,000,000 for up to 5 years |
| E33G, remote worker | employees of a foreign company | 60,000 dollars a year, employment contract with a company outside Indonesia, 2,000 dollars balance | Rp7,000,000 for one year |
For all four a passport valid for at least six more months applies. With the Silver Hair and the Second Home you receive, according to the immigration service, the electronic ITAS and the re-entry permit automatically on arrival. With that re-entry permit you may come back into the country after a trip. On those two routes you report the account at the state-owned bank, or the fulfilment of your commitment, to the immigration office within ninety days.
What may you not do?
On the E33F visa it is prohibited to sell goods or services and to work for payment from individuals or companies in Indonesia. The same applies to the E33G: you carry out assignments for your foreign employer, not for Indonesian clients.
On the Second Home it is different. According to the immigration service you may do business and invest on it. Working is allowed too, but only if you report the work as an additional activity to the immigration office that issued your ITAS. For work for an Indonesian employer you also need a work permit: the employer has a plan for foreign workers approved by the Ministry of Manpower, the RPTKA. Without those steps, working is forbidden on the Second Home too.
The E33F visa requires a guarantor. Among the documents is a guarantee from the guarantor, the sponsor who vouches for you. The immigration service sends decisions about your stay electronically to you and to your guarantor, and an extension can also run through them. So agree in advance that they keep vouching for you for as long as you live in Indonesia.
How do you extend, and for how long?
An ITAS of at most one year you extend at the immigration office where you live, applying at the earliest thirty days before the end and at the latest on the last day. If you applied and paid before that day, the time the processing takes does not count as an overstay. For the E33F visa the immigration service prescribes that each extension may not be longer than the first period, and that the ITAS may not run longer than six years in total.
After that there is a route to the permanent permit, the KITAP. For older foreign visitors (wisatawan lanjut usia mancanegara) it opens after at least three consecutive years with an ITAS, and you apply for the switch no later than thirty days before your ITAS expires. Whoever is married to an Indonesian can switch after a marriage of at least two years.
The clocks in a row
Ninety days to use the eVisa. Fourteen days for the SKTT. Ninety days for the deposit or the report of the account on the deposit routes. Thirty days before expiry the window for the extension, and six years for the E33F series as a whole. Whoever knows and tracks these clocks has done the heavy part of the Indonesian paperwork.
In Vertrekklaar this is phase 1 of 5 of the journey, step 1.1: the same steps, but for your situation — in your order, tickable, and with the deadlines watched. See the whole journey to Indonesia or go straight to step 1.1 in the open plan.
What this rests on
The facts in this article come from these official pages. Rules change. When in doubt, go by the source, not this article.
- Imigrasi — the E33F retirement visa (from 55, costs, documents, work ban) — evisa.imigrasi.go.id
- Imigrasi — the E33E Silver Hair visa (deposit of 50,000 dollars) — evisa.imigrasi.go.id
- Imigrasi — Second Home E33: deposit of 130,000 dollars or property, within 90 days — evisa.imigrasi.go.id
- Imigrasi — Visa Rumah Kedua E33 (work after reporting an additional activity) — imigrasi.go.id
- Imigrasi — the E33G remote worker visa (60,000 dollars a year) — evisa.imigrasi.go.id
- Imigrasi — the ITAS residence permit, extension and total duration — imigrasi.go.id
- Imigrasi — frequently asked questions on stay permits, with the switch to the KITAP — imigrasi.go.id
- Disdukcapil Batam — the SKTT within 14 days of the ITAS being issued — disdukcapil.batam.go.id
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