Bonjour,
Il est maintenant possible d'obtenir un visa Kitas d'un an en Indonésie en tant qu'époux marié à une Indonésienne...
Qui a réussi à obtenir ce visa dans cette situation... quelle est la marche à suivre???
Merci!
Bon cette fois la prochaine qui m'demande je lui dis ya 🙂
En gros ça consiste à démarrer un social budaya classique puis à le transformer dans les 4 mois. Avec ce Kitas, on n'a toujours pas le droit officiellement de travailler. Donc si on résume c'est comme un sosbud mais ça se renouvelle à l'année, c'est pas mal !
Y'a déjà un témoignage, ça a l'air un peu trop simple !! Ils viennent d'ouvrir un peu plus la porte de la corruption... vu qu'apparemment c'est soumis à une condition de revenu minimum des 2 époux.
Hi All,
I want to share my experience.
I have applied VITAS (visa tingga terbatas) for my husband. This vitas allows him to stay in Indonesia for 365 days after the arrival date, and can be renewed yearly.
I was told by some immigration officers that this is a new Undang-Undang (Law) and not yet has a peraturan pemerintah (I don't know what is the english translation for this). moi non plus !
If any of you want to apply for this, please go directly to Kanim or Immigration office. In my case, I went to Dirjen Imigrasi at Kuningan, Jakarta. Please.. please.. ignore any officers or agents that offered to help you. An officer offered to help me to get the approval letter for 6millions rupiah (around usd600)! I just ignored him and went straight to the counter. These are the requirements (some of them are not written on the big board of visa application requirements):
1. Application letter by sponsor (wife)
2. Form VISQ (you can purchase this at the immigration office) costs Rp.13, 000, - plus "meterai" Rp. 6, 000, - (if you buy it there, they sell it for Rp.7, 000, -)
3. Fotocopy of husband's passport
4. Husband's CV
5. Fotocopy of wife's KTP
6. Fotocopy of wife's bank balance statement
7. Fotocopy of marriage certivicate (Please bring along the original just in case they ask to see it).
8. Fotocopy of wife's Kartu Keluarga (Family Card). It can be her father's, as long as her name is in the card.
9. Sponsorship statement from the wife signed with "meterai".
In 7 working days the approval letter will be sent to the embassy/consulate where the husband resides / is going to apply for the visa. The wife has to collect this letter and pay for telex Rp.25, 000, - (may vary between countries).
One more thing that is required for this, if you choose to do it without any help from agents or "others"... patience.... patience.. patience... It took me 3 hours, from the first time I got my waiting number until I was called to the counter. So bring some magazines, ipod, and maybe a mask? (since the waiting room is full of smoking agents)..
Merci les gars!
je connaissais LIVING IN INDO.COM et recherchais davantage des témoignages comme celui que publie Lolo...
Donc, si ça foire niveau DARMASISWA je pourrais toujours me rabattre sur un Kitas... A ceci près que je dois d'abord arriver avec un visa touriste, m'installer à Java, faire faire des papiers à cette adresse à mon épouse pour qu'elle puisse être mon sponsor pour la ville de notre choix et pas le Kalimantan occidental (🏴☠️)...
Ah merci coco, ton lien est super... je ne l'avais pas ouvert ce matin, j'étais au boulot, pas le temps!
...
Tout est expliqué... c'est formidable...
J'adore le conseil: refusez de payer toute taxe supplémentaire! Les gros bapak2 à moustache (moulés dans leurs uniformes trop justes et aux aisselles imbibées de sueur) vont faire la tête!! 😛
Oui oui, mais dans un cas on s'occupe de tout pour moi et on finance mon visa, dans l'autre je me débrouille et je paye... Quant au droit de travailler, bon... hein...
Yogja ou Bandung... mais pour l'instant j'essaye surtout d'avoir des infos et de rencontrer des interlocuteurs compétents et efficaces... pas évident...
Non non c est carrement le KITAS. Regarde la marche a suivre sur le lien poste par FUNKY FROG! Par contre il faut faire un sos bud d abord et tu n as toujours pas le droit de bosser. Pour les epouses d indonesiens ca fait un moment que vous pouvez gratter un Kitas. Pour nous, les males, c est plus recent!
FRED
PS/ Felicitations!!
Il faut aller dans la première discussion:KITAS sponsored by the Indonesian wife of a foreign husband.
Atlantis, l'initiateur de la discussion, est un français expatrié à Sulawesi. Visiblement il connait tout ça parfaitement.
N'hésite pas à lui envoyer un message...
Toutes mes félicitations en tout cas 😉
Ne pile pas ton grain avec une banane mûre... (proverbe africain)
Bon maintenant à l'inverse, des témoignages de français dont les conjoints ont fait une demande de visa long séjour pour la France?
Y'a t'il des difficulités à l'obtenir? Délais?
Faut t'il acheter son billet d'avion à l'avance (ils demandent la preuve de réservation de billet d'avion) quitte à le perdre si le visa met trop de temps à arriver? (billet open, cher cher cher !!!)
J'ai eu un mec à l'ambassade de France à Jakarta, pas très locace, qui m'a dit que mon mari devra passer un test de français INDISPENSABLE pour obtenir son visa long stay.
Bref j'ai des tas de questions et l'ambassad n'a pas voulu me répondre!
Pour nous, en 2003, tout avait ete tres tres simple, tres rapide...
Maintenant, effectivement il y a un test de francais, juste histoire de bien faire ch... les gens parce qu il faudrait qu on m explique comment quelqu un qui est dans un bled a Sumatra peut faire pour acquerir le niveau suffisant... est ce que cela revient a dire qu il ne faut epouser que des etrangers francophones qui habitent a cote des centres culturels francais???
Je te souhaite bon courage...
exactement!
je trouve ça absurde, bon maintenant à savoir quel niveau ils demandent...Si c'est des bases ça ira pour lui, il parle un peu, mais pas suffisamment pour tenir une conversation en français un peu soutenu!
Je suis d'accord qu'une fois arrivés en France, ils aient des cours gratuits ou je ne sais quoi pour "l'intégration", mais AVANT?
Comme tu dis, à part les privilégiés qui ont eu la chance d'étudier au CCF au alliances françaises, les autres ne pourront pas obtenir de visa car leur niveau de français est insuffisant?
j'espère que ça ira néanmoins, et qu'on ne rencontrera pas trop de problèmes..
Loic : ahahaha jangan kawatir, on ne restera pas longtemps en France, notre but est comme toi : vivre en indonésie!
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