Hello!! Moving to Bali with my 4yr old in November

[Lacyeloo]

Hello!
Thanks for approving me here! I need some advice & am having a hard time finding it online. My husband recently passed away, & I’m having a hard time understanding how to afford life in northern CA alone...paying for childcare, rent post-fires in a housing crisis... with a child. So, I’ve got a little bit of money... we’re going to Bali to heal, recover, write, & just be with each other & figure out our next move.
First question: Will it raise any red flags to have a round trip flight, with return ticket for July? Even if I can show a trip to Singapore within the first 60 days of arrival?
Next: I’m planning on getting a cheap Airbnb for the first 10 days in Ubod & figuring it out once I’m there. (My budget is really low) Good idea or..?
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Thank you in advance for your help!

 

[SamD]

Hello
You will be ok when you arrive. Just go to the voa payment counter on arrival and buy your 30 day visa if you don't already have your visa organised. Then when you are here you can arrange your visa extension. That is what I am doing now. I'm here for four months so will have to do a visa run somewhere to get my next 60 days. It is a bit expensive and a lot of running around but all doable. I had to buy a one way ferry ticket to singapore before my carrier would let me board my flight because my return flight was beyond 60 days. But I had no problems when I went through immigration at ngurah rai.
Good luck
Samuel.

 

[davita]

Hello Lacyeloo and welcome.
An alternative to the VOA, whether the free 30 day or the paid 30 day + 30 day extension is to get a 60 day tourist visa from the nearest Indonesian consul to where you live in CA. This avoids having to go thru' the extension fracas.
You will still need to show an exit ticket before the 60 day expires but, if you can attend the consul personally, they usually accept you have a credit card and can purchase a ticket anytime...I have done this many times from Vancouver, B.C.
As the tourist visa number is the same as a Sosbud, after arrival in Bali, it is possible to get a sponsor and extend that tourist visa from CA, after the first 60 days, for up to a total of 6 months at 30 day intervals, without ever leaving Bali.

This is a single-entry visa so if you should leave it becomes invalid, same as other single-entry visas, and you need to get a new visa to return.

 

[SamD]

Good advice. That is what I would have done but I didn't have tbe time to arrange my 60 day visa from Australia before traveling.

 

[Juggler]

Hello Lacyeloo and welcome.
An alternative to the VOA, whether the free 30 day or the paid 30 day + 30 day extension is to get a 60 day tourist visa from the nearest Indonesian consul to where you live in CA. This avoids having to go thru' the extension fracas.
You will still need to show an exit ticket before the 60 day expires but, if you can attend the consul personally, they usually accept you have a credit card and can purchase a ticket anytime...I have done this many times from Vancouver, B.C.
As the tourist visa number is the same as a Sosbud, after arrival in Bali, it is possible to get a sponsor and extend that tourist visa from CA, after the first 60 days, for up to a total of 6 months at 30 day intervals, without ever leaving Bali.

This is a single-entry visa so if you should leave it becomes invalid, same as other single-entry visas, and you need to get a new visa to return.

Sill question, can any RI local be a sponsor or do yo uhave to go to one of the paid "sponsors"

 

[davita]

Sill question, can any RI local be a sponsor or do yo uhave to go to one of the paid "sponsors"

Any Indonesian can be your sponsor...a friend a neighbor...so long as they can fulfill the details on the sponsor form.

 

[sayangku]

Sorry for your loss - but is moving half way round to the world to where you have no family or government support available sensible with a young child? Please make sure you have proper medical insurance cover for a start.