Bonjour,
Si j'ai bien compris, maintenant les français ont aussi besoin d'un visa pour se rendre en Indonésie.
Il peut être délivré à l'arrivée pour un mois, sans renouvellement, alors comment fait-on si on souhaite rester plus d'un mois?
Doit-on faire une demande de visa au consulat d'Indonésie avant de partir?
Et est-il possible de le demander à BKK?
Merci et bonne jounée à tous
Si tu souhaites rester plus d'un mois en Indonésie il faut faire une demande de visa touriste à l'ambassade d'indonésie en France avant de partir ou en passant par une agence qui s'en charge et ainsi avec ce visa tu peux rester 60 jours.
Tu peux faire ta demande avec l'agence action visas qui s'occupera de tout, il suffit de télécharger les documents nécessaire sur leur site. Pour le reste tout est bien expliquer pour savoir comment s'y prendre leur faire parvenir le tout.
Le décret présidentiel indonésien du 31 mars 2003, entré en vigueur le 1er février 2004, a étendu l’obligation d’obtention d’un visa à un grand nombre de ressortissants étrangers dont les Français. A défaut donc de bénéficier d’un accord de réciprocité comme c’est le cas notamment pour Singapour, la Thaïlande ou le Vietnam, l’entrée sur le territoire indonésien, qu’elle soit à des fins touristiques, d’affaires ou pour une longue durée est subordonnée à la délivrance d’un visa.
S’il s’agit d’un séjour touristique, le visa délivré à l’arrivée ne pourra pas excéder 30 jours (à compter du jour d’arrivée). Il n’est pas reconductible sur place. Son coût est de 20 euros. Si le séjour doit excéder 30 jours, le visa doit obligatoirement être obtenu avant l’arrivée en Indonésie. S’il s’agit d’un séjour d’affaires, le visa « business » est accordé pour 6 mois, c’est-à-dire : - D’abord pour 60 jours. - Ensuite par période de 30 jours renouvelable 4 fois. Moyennant les justificatifs suivants : - Une lettre d’invitation d’un « sponsor » indonésien, c’est-à-dire d’un chef d’entreprise local. - Une lettre de mission d’affaires émanant d’une entreprise ou d’un commerçant du pays d’origine. - Des formulaires dûment remplis.
Son coût : 40 euros depuis la France. Il faut donc, avant l’expiration des 60 jours, présenter le passeport aux services de l’immigration dont dépend votre adresse de résidence afin d’obtenir une extension. En pratique, il convient de remplir un dossier (à retirer à la caisse contre 11 000 Rp) dans lequel seront indiqués l’identité du demandeur, son adresse, sa situation familiale. Y ajouter une lettre du sponsor indonésien accompagnée des justificatifs d’identité et de raison sociale. Le passeport muni du nouveau « visa business » pour 30 jours est restitué quelques jours après. Coût officiel de l’extension : 250 000 Rp. Les 3ème et 4ème extensions sont un peu plus longues et lourdes en formalités puisqu’il faut joindre au dossier une autorisation émanant du département local du ministère de la Justice et des Droits de l’Homme. Coût officiel : 300 000 Rp. Il existe deux modalités de visas « business » : Le SIMPLE : il implique pendant toute sa durée de rester sur le territoire indonésien sous peine d’en perdre le bénéfice. Le « MULTIPLES ENTREES » : il permet à son titulaire de voyager hors du territoire. Un tel visa suppose de requérir au préalable une autorisation des services de l’immigration de Jakarta. La législation a changé récemment et impose désormais à son titulaire de quitter effectivement le territoire avant l’expiration des 60 jours, puis tous les mois. Son coût est de 100 euros. Si le titulaire du visa « business » est accompagné de sa famille, le conjoint ou concubin non commerçant et les enfants obtiennent un visa dit de « suivi de famille » qui s’apparente au visa « sosial budaya », délivré dans les mêmes conditions et modalités.
Le VKSB, communément appelé « sosial budaya » est quant à lui délivré pour des séjours à des fins sociales et culturelles. Il ne permet pas d’exercer une activité professionnelle. Il est valable lui aussi pour 6 mois dans les mêmes conditions et modalités, cependant le sponsor dans ce cas est un établissement scolaire, une université ou toute autre personne implantée en Indonésie.
S’il s’agit d’une installation professionnelle de longue durée, deux types de visas sont proposés : le KITAS puis le KITAP. Le premier permet d’acquérir une carte de séjour (kartu ijin) provisoire (terbatas). Il faut être employé par une personne physique ou morale indonésienne et obtenir l’autorisation préalable de l’immigration de Jakarta. Il est valable UN an et reconductible 4 fois moyennant le paiement annuel d’un impôt fixé actuellement à 1200 dollars et des frais de dossiers. Le second dit KITAP peut être sollicité une fois que le KITAS est expiré. Il permet l’obtention d’une carte de séjour permanent, c’est-à-dire pour 5 ans reconductibles. Le titulaire de ces visas devra acquitter une taxe de 1 000 000 Rp (fiskal) s’il sort du territoire. Un KITAS peut également être attribué aux époux de ressortissants indonésiens dans les mêmes conditions que celles citées plus haut. Toutefois, ils ne pourront pas exercer d’activité professionnelle, mais ils n’auront pas non plus à payer les 1200 dollars de taxe annuelle.
Il existe enfin un visa « pensiun » ou visa de retraite. Il faut être âgé de plus de 55 ans et justifier de ressources suffisantes. Les demandes de visas se font auprès des ambassades ou consulats indonésiens. L’arrivée en Indonésie doit se faire dans les 90 jours qui suivent la délivrance du visa.
A défaut, ce dernier est caduc. Aucun visa n’est reconductible sur place. Toutes les formalités d’obtention de visas peuvent être accomplies par vous-même, votre sponsor ou un agent, dans ce dernier cas moyennant bien entendu des honoraires (plus ou moins 500 000 Rp par exemple pour un visa business). A noter enfin que tout dépassement de date de visa est sujet à une amende actuellement de 20 dollars par jour de retard
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1) The first day she spent in the Schengen Area was January 21st. That day will drop out of the calculation 180 days later, on July 20th.
From July 20th, she’ll get back 1 day of possible stay; on July 22nd, 2 days; and so on. All the days from her previous stay (January 21st–April 16th) need to be outside the 180-day rolling window.
The last day of her stay was April 16th. Looking 180 days ahead, that brings us to October 13th. From that date, she’ll be able to return for a full 90 days.
2) The number of allowed days is calculated for each day of the new stay. In other words: the 180-day window is recalculated every day, not fixed at the entry date.
If she re-enters France on July 18th, she’ll only have a “credit” of 4 days. But with each day of her new stay, one day from the previous stay (January–April) will drop out of the calculation. The rolling window allows her to “replace” days from the previous stay with those of the new stay, without ever exceeding 90 days in any 180-day period.
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