Bali Visa Guide.

If you hold an ASEAN passport or one of the other visa-free passports, you can enter Bali for 30 days for free, with nothing to arrange first. Indonesia cut the list in 2024. In 2026 it added Türkiye, Brazil, Peru, Kazakhstan, Macau and Belarus, which brought it to about 19 countries.

Visa-free entry can't be extended. You also can't switch it to another visa once you're on the island. If you might stay longer than 30 days, pay for the Visa on Arrival instead, because you can extend that one at a Bali immigration office.

Almost every visitor to Bali uses this visa. It covers 87 nationalities, including most Western passports, and gives you 30 days for tourism.

You can buy it when you land 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 the counter, buy the e-VOA (the same visa, bought online) at evisa.imigrasi.go.id a few days before you fly and show the PDF on arrival.

You can extend once, for another 30 days (60 in total), at a Bali immigration office. Most people use the Ngurah Rai or Denpasar (Renon) office. Since June 2025 you have to go in person for a photo, so start the extension about a week before your 30 days end.

The C1 visit visa is the usual choice if you want to stay in Bali longer than 60 days without working. It gives you 60 days, and you can extend it twice, 60 days at a time, up to 180 days. You extend at a Bali immigration office or through an agent.

Many long-stayers in Canggu and Ubud use the C1 because they don't earn enough for the E33G remote-worker visa, which needs US$60,000 a year. You apply online before you travel.

The E33G is what most people mean by the "Bali digital nomad visa", though it covers all of Indonesia. It lets you live in Bali for a year while working for a company or clients based outside Indonesia. You can't take Balinese clients or work for an Indonesian company on it.

You need income of US$60,000 a year (about US$5,000 a month) and a bank balance of at least US$2,000. You don't need health insurance, and you can include your family.

You apply online, and approval takes about five working days. If you live in Bali, you renew at your local immigration office, and there is no limit on renewals.

Spend more than 183 days in Indonesia in any 12-month period and you become an Indonesian tax resident. Check what that means for your own taxes before you pass that point.

If you're married to an Indonesian and want to live in Bali long term, you need the E31A spouse visa (Visa Keluarga Suami/Istri WNI, the family visa for spouses of Indonesian citizens). It comes as a one-year or two-year permit (a KITAS). You start each renewal online at evisa.imigrasi.go.id, then visit your local immigration office for the photo.

Your spouse applies through their evisa.imigrasi.go.id account. You need your marriage certificate, your passport and a bank statement showing at least US$2,000.

After two straight years on the spouse KITAS, you can move up to a KITAP (a permanent stay permit). It lasts five years and you can renew it indefinitely, so the yearly renewals stop. The official KITAP fee is Rp 11,000,000 (about US$690).

The Second Home visa lets you live in Bali for up to five years without a job or a sponsor, if you have the money. You can renew it to a maximum of ten years, leave and come back as often as you like, and later apply to switch to permanent residency (KITAP).

You qualify on savings or property, not income. You need US$130,000 in an Indonesian state bank in your own name, or Indonesian property worth at least US$1 million, in place within 90 days of arriving. You can't earn Indonesian income on this visa, but remote work for a foreign employer is fine.

To retire in Bali, you need the E33F, the "Second Home Visa for the Elderly" (lansia means elderly). It gives a one-year stay that you renew each year, and it can lead to permanent residency (KITAP) over time.

You don't have to be formally retired. You need a pension or other income of at least US$3,000 a month, a bank statement, health insurance, an address in Bali and a local sponsor. Most people get the sponsor through a Bali agency.

The immigration page sets no age limit, but the visa is meant for older applicants, and agents generally require you to be 55 or over.

If a Bali company is hiring you, this is your visa. It lasts a year and renews. A registered Indonesian company must sponsor you and hold an approved foreign-worker plan (RPTKA) from the Ministry of Manpower.

You can't apply for it yourself. The application takes several government steps, so your employer and their agent handle it.