Seems to me there are more people moving to Bali / Indonesia as expats. I don’t know about other people who live here, but I seem to be always running into people, who have ‘just moved to Bali a year ago’. With that in mind, I thought it might be useful to list some websites to help the other half of humanity, who still haven’t moved here.
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Campur means ‘mixed’ in Indonesian. Jevon is a campur kid, and like many others, was caught in a legal mess as far as his nationality. Logic would suggest, that if a kid was born in a country, to a mother who is a national from that country, the kid too, would similarly become national. Well logic doesn’t have much to do with what often goes on over here, and campur kids were considered foreingers, adopting the nationality of their father.
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One of the first things I had to take care of, after arriving back in Bali is my visa. I came in on a VOA (visa on arrival), and want to renew my Multiple Entry Business Visa. Before leaving for Europe, the staff at Arjuna Immigration Services, told me Multiple entries were not given out anymore.
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Dual citizenship in Indonesia has always been a controversial matter but it seems that all of this is soon to be resolved with a provision in the citizenship bill allowing for dual citizenship of their offspring until the latter reaches adulthood.
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Picture the scenario - you are enjoying your holiday and getting that nice suntan and downing lots of the amber fluid and it seems as though the cares of the world are far from your life. You even forget how many days you have been in the country.
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Many people dream of moving to Bali and finding a job. Legally and realistically its not hard. You can get hold of any type of visa you like simply by hiring an immigration consultant and the government does not come sniffing around individuals for tax purposes. The main problem for new arrivals is what do you do. I get emails from people on a regular basis who ask me, ‘do you know how I can make money?’, ‘what is your suggestion for me?’ My suggestion is that you figure out how to make money at home, then when you come to Bali you will know what direction to go in. The expat newspaper, The Bali Advertiser, carries ads offering jobs and requesting jobs. I see the same requests month after month.
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This morning I went down to Kuta to order a plane ticket to Singapore, to renew my Business Visa. I’ve had some ups and downs with airlines recently and wanted to get to the bottom of things. My ticket on Garuda (serviced by Malaysia Airlines) to London, was supposedly changeable, as far as the date. “You just call to change at least 24 hours before flight and no problem,” the travel agent told me. Six weeks later I tried that and almost lost the ticket! I was told my ticket was not transferable at all. Only by luck, and using some pressure tactics that I learned over the years, from my colleagues, I got the manager to write me a new ticket.
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It has always been a bone of contention as regards foreign nationals married to or intending to marry Indonesian women.
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I really miss the days when you landed in Indonesia and instantaneously were issued a two month visa free of charge. But someone in the government thought it would be a great idea to make money out of tourists and so now we have the VOA or Visa on Arrival.
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Ika, Jevon and I spent the first half of today, getting documents ready for the British Embassy in Jakarta. We hope to go to the UK in July, and have some hoops to jump through. Documents needed, were a complete photo copy of my passport, Ika’s passport, photocopy of my house lease agreement, photocopy of our marriage certificate, photos, the multiple page questionnaire, copies of my bank account statements, a letter from me, telling my life story and the fee, 1,075,000rp (which includes the ‘handling fee’). The British Embassy uses local ‘agents’ to handle all the visa requests.
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