The Bali visa is the first question travellers ask before leaving, and the answer depends on one thing only: how long you stay. For a holiday, the visa on arrival is bought at the airport for IDR 500,000. To test life on the island, there is a 60-day visa extendable up to six months. To settle, you move to a residence permit, and the simplest one for those who own a villa is the investor KITAS. Here are the 2026 rules, prices, pitfalls, and the right visa for your situation.
Key takeaways
- For a holiday, the visa on arrival (or e-VOA online) costs IDR 500,000, lasts 30 days and can be extended once: 60 days maximum.
- To stay up to six months, the 60-day tourist visa (IDR 1,000,000) can be extended up to 180 days. No tourist visa allows you to work.
- To settle with a villa, the PT PMA and the investor KITAS (2 years renewable, family included) are the simplest route, with no age condition and no bank deposit.
Contents (6 chapters)
Do you need a visa to go to Bali?
Most travellers do. Citizens of the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Australia, among others, need a visa on arrival (or its online version, the e-VOA) for a tourist stay of up to 60 days, and a visa applied for before departure for any longer stay. Only a few countries, mainly in South-East Asia, are exempt.
Before boarding, four things are checked:
- A passport valid for at least 6 months after your entry date, with two blank pages
- An onward or return ticket
- The "All Indonesia" arrival declaration, free, to be completed online within 72 hours before arrival: it replaces the paper arrival card, the customs declaration and the health form since 1 October 2025
- The Bali tourist levy ("Love Bali"), IDR 150,000 per person per visit, roughly 9 €, best paid online before you land
Nothing complicated, but a passport that expires in five months is enough to be refused boarding at your departure airport.
Visa on arrival and e-VOA: price, duration, extension
This is the visa used by almost everyone discovering Bali.
- Price: IDR 500,000, roughly 28 €
- Duration: 30 days from entry
- Extension: one only, for 30 days, for another IDR 500,000, so 60 days maximum
- Entry: single. If you leave Indonesia, you need a new visa to come back
Two ways to get it. The e-VOA is applied for online on the official Indonesian immigration website (evisa.imigrasi.go.id), between 14 days and 48 hours before departure: you clear the airport faster. The classic visa on arrival is bought at the counter at Denpasar airport, by card or in cash, sometimes with an hour-long queue in high season.
The extension is no longer fully online since May 2025: you need to go to the immigration office (or hand it to an agent, which costs a few dozen euros more but saves the trips), and count 5 to 7 working days.
Staying more than 60 days: the 60-day tourist visa
For a stay of two to six months, the right tool is the 60-day tourist visa, applied for online before departure on the immigration website.
- Price: IDR 1,000,000, roughly 55 €
- Duration: 60 days, extendable in 60-day periods up to 180 days in total
- Entry: single
- Processing: 48 hours to 5 working days, allow margin
It is the ideal visa for a "trial stay" before settling: three to six months on the island, enough to compare districts, meet the teams and check that daily life suits you, without any heavy paperwork.
One rule applies to every tourist visa: no paid activity is allowed in Indonesia, not even remotely for an Indonesian client. Working for an employer or clients based outside Indonesia falls under another residence permit, described below.
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Settling in Bali: long-term residence permits
Beyond six months, we no longer talk about a visa but about a residence permit, the KITAS. There are several, and the right one depends on what you come to Bali for.
- The investor KITAS: attached to an Indonesian foreign-owned company, the PT PMA, the one that holds your villa. Valid for 2 years, renewable as long as the company is active, it covers your spouse and children, and lets you run your own company without a separate work permit. After several renewals, it opens the way to permanent residence (KITAP). Count roughly 1.200 € to 1.300 € per person and 850 € to 900 € per child.
- The retirement KITAS: from age 55, with a pension or income of about USD 1,500 a month, health insurance, a one-year lease and a registered domestic helper. Valid one year, renewable up to five years. A sponsor-free variant exists from age 60, with a bank deposit of USD 50,000 and an income of about USD 3,000 a month.
- The second home visa: 5 or 10 years of residence against a deposit of IDR 2 billion, about USD 130,000, in an account in your name at an Indonesian state-owned bank. The money remains yours. No age condition, no sponsor.
- The remote worker KITAS: one year, non-extendable, for those working for an employer or clients based outside Indonesia, with about USD 60,000 a year of income to prove. No activity for an Indonesian client.
For those who build or buy a villa, the maths is quick: the PT PMA is already needed to carry the project, and the investor KITAS follows from it. It is the simplest route, the one most of our clients who settle follow, and it depends neither on your age nor on a locked bank deposit.
Which visa for your situation?
- Holiday of less than a month: visa on arrival or e-VOA, IDR 500,000
- One to two months: e-VOA plus one extension on the island, IDR 1,000,000 in total
- Two to six months to test life on the island: 60-day tourist visa, extended up to 180 days
- You build or buy a villa: PT PMA then investor KITAS, 2 years renewable, family included
- Retirement without a property project: retirement KITAS from 55, or second home visa on a bank deposit
- Remote work for a foreign employer: remote worker KITAS, one year
Thresholds and fees change regularly, sometimes without notice. Before any long-term application, have your file checked by a licensed visa agent, and beware of unofficial websites reselling the e-VOA at two or three times its price.
The mistakes that cost money
- Overstaying by "a few days": IDR 1,000,000 per day, no negotiation at the airport
- Working on a tourist visa, even remotely for an Indonesian client: deportation and entry ban
- A passport valid for less than six months: refused boarding at home, before even seeing Bali
- Paying for the e-VOA on an intermediary website: the only official site is evisa.imigrasi.go.id
- Waiting for the villa handover to start the KITAS: three to four months of paperwork that can be done during construction
Well prepared, the visa is never an obstacle to living in Bali. It is even the simplest part of the project when the villa carries the residence permit.
Frequently asked questions
Yes for most nationalities, including EU, UK, US, Canadian and Australian citizens: a visa on arrival at the airport or an e-VOA online for IDR 500,000 (about 28 €), valid 30 days and extendable once. You also need a passport valid for 6 months, an onward ticket, the "All Indonesia" declaration and the IDR 150,000 tourist levy.
IDR 500,000 (about 28 €) for the 30-day visa on arrival or e-VOA, the same for the 30-day extension. The 60-day tourist visa costs IDR 1,000,000 (about 55 €). Add the Bali tourist levy, IDR 150,000 per visit.
60 days with the visa on arrival extended once, and up to 180 days with the 60-day tourist visa extended in 60-day periods. Beyond that, you need a residence permit (KITAS).
The fine is IDR 1,000,000 per day of overstay, about 55 €, payable when leaving the country. Beyond 60 days of overstay, you risk deportation and a ban from entering Indonesia.
A residence permit (KITAS). For those who own a villa through a PT PMA, the investor KITAS is the simplest route: 2 years renewable, spouse and children included. Otherwise, the retirement KITAS from 55, the second home visa on a bank deposit, or the remote worker KITAS for one year.
No. No paid activity is allowed on a visa on arrival or a tourist visa, even remotely for an Indonesian client. Working for an employer or clients based outside Indonesia requires the remote worker KITAS, and running your own company the investor KITAS.
Conclusion
The Bali visa comes down to three tiers: the visa on arrival for holidays, the 60-day visa to test life on the island, the KITAS to settle. Fees are modest, rules are clear, and the only real mistake is to ignore them.
If your project goes through a villa, the residence permit is sorted at the same time as the construction. Our guide to living in Bali gives the budgets and districts, and our guide to investing in Bali goes through the structure step by step.
