Bali Visa Guide.

If you hold an ASEAN passport or one of the other visa-free nationalities, you can enter Bali for 30 days at no cost, with nothing to arrange first. The list was cut to about 19 countries in 2024 and topped up in 2026, when Türkiye, Brazil, Peru, Kazakhstan, Macau and Belarus were added.

The catch for a Bali trip is that it's fixed. You can't extend visa-free entry or switch it to another visa once you're on the island. If there's any chance you'll stay past 30 days, pay for the Visa on Arrival instead, which you can extend at a Bali immigration office.

This is what almost every visitor to Bali uses. You can buy it on landing at Ngurah Rai (DPS): follow the "Visa on Arrival" signs to the payment counter before immigration, pay Rp 500,000 by card or cash, then join the immigration line. To skip that line, buy the e-VOA at evisa.imigrasi.go.id a few days before you fly and show the PDF on arrival.

It covers 87 nationalities, including most Western passports, and is good for 30 days of tourism. You can extend once for another 30 (60 total) at a Bali immigration office; the Ngurah Rai and Denpasar (Renon) offices are the usual choices. Since June 2025 the extension needs an in-person visit for a photo, so start it about a week before your 30 days end, or hand it to a Bali visa agent if you'd rather not make the trips yourself.

When 60 days isn't enough for your Bali stay but you're not working, the C1 visit visa is the usual step up. It gives 60 days and extends twice, 60 days at a time, to a maximum of 180, all handled at a Bali immigration office or through an agent.

A lot of the longer-term crowd in Canggu and Ubud use the C1 because they don't hit the E33G's US$60,000 income bar; it's the simpler route for a few months on the island. You apply online before you travel, and the tourism version needs no sponsor.

For a lot of people this is effectively the "Bali digital nomad visa", even though it applies right across Indonesia. Canggu and Ubud are among Asia's best-known remote-work hubs, and the E33G lets you live on the island for a year while working for a company or clients based outside Indonesia. You can't take on Balinese clients or work for an Indonesian company on it.

You show income of US$60,000 a year (about US$5,000 a month) and a bank balance of at least US$2,000. No insurance is required, and family can be included.

You apply online, approval takes about five working days, and if you're living in Bali you'll renew through your local immigration office, with no maximum number of renewals. Spending more than 183 days here can make you an Indonesian tax resident, depending on your circumstances and the current tax rules.

If you're married to an Indonesian and want to live in Bali long term, the E31A spouse visa (the Visa Keluarga Suami/Istri WNI) is the one that lets you stay. You pick a one or two-year permit, renewed through your local immigration office.

Your Indonesian spouse is the sponsor and applies through their evisa.imigrasi.go.id account, with your marriage certificate, passport and a bank statement showing at least US$2,000.

Once you've held the spouse KITAS for two straight years, you can move up to a KITAP (permanent stay permit), valid five years and renewable indefinitely, which ends the annual renewals. The official KITAP fee is Rp 11,000,000 (about US$690).

For people with the means who want Bali as a long-term base without a job or sponsor, the Second Home visa runs up to five years, renewable to ten years total, with multiple entries and a path to permanent residency (KITAP) after about three years.

You qualify on assets rather than income: US$130,000 in an Indonesian state bank in your own name, or Indonesian property worth at least US$1 million. You can't earn Indonesian income on it, though remote work for a foreign employer is fine.

Retiring to Bali runs on the E33F, the "Second Home Visa for the Elderly". It gives a one-year stay that renews each year and can lead to permanent residency (KITAP) over time.

You don't have to be formally retired. What you show is the income: a pension or other income of at least US$3,000 a month, plus a bank statement, health insurance and a Bali address. The immigration page states no explicit age, but the visa targets older applicants and agents generally apply a minimum of 55. It needs a local sponsor, so most people arrange it through a Bali agency.

If a Bali company is hiring you, this is the visa. It runs a year and renews, but it's employer-driven: a registered Indonesian company must sponsor you and hold RPTKA approval from the Ministry of Manpower.

Because it's sponsor-gated and involves several government steps, the employer and their agent handle it rather than you applying solo. Budget US$2,500 to US$4,000 all-in for a one-year permit.