Visa information

Bali offers three named routes in the 2026 guide: the one-year Remote Worker (E33G) visa on $60k/yr of foreign income, a Second Home visa of 5–10 years on about $130k in an Indonesian bank, and a Retirement KITAS — with a 30-day visa on arrival, extendable to 60, as the scouting option. The guide scores Bali 52/100 for visa and bureaucracy, and its own tagline warns of 'visa churn' as one of the island's trade-offs.

The three routes the guide names

Remote Worker (E33G) visa — one year, on $60k/yr foreign income. This is also the guide's remote-work route: it repeats the E33G line in its remote-work section, noting that foreign income is untaxed (see Tax & Legal).

Second Home visa — 5–10 years on ~$130k in an Indonesian bank.

Retirement KITAS — listed as from age 55–60 in the visa list (its exact age wording is flagged below), alongside the scouting option: a 30-day visa on arrival extendable to 60 for scouting.

The guide's tagline names the practical backdrop honestly: the remote-worker capital of Asia comes with “traffic, visa churn and thin hospital cover as the trade-offs.”

The income and funds tests — the figures the sources actually give

Unlike many guides in this series, Bali's prints actual figures — and only these figures. The E33G tests foreign income at $60k/yr. The Second Home visa tests funds at ~$130k in an Indonesian bank. For the Retirement KITAS, the guide's retirement text (not its visa list) puts the pension at ~$1,500/mo, with a rental agreement and Indonesian domestic help also required (see the Retirement page).

One figure the sources do not settle is the retirement age: the visa list says “from age 55–60,” the retirement text says “for over-55s,” and the schemes list says “from 55.” This page reports all three as printed and asserts none — confirm the current starting age before planning around a specific birthday. At the guide's exchange rate of $1 ≈ Rp16900, rupiah figures convert at roughly that rate for planning.

What the paperwork costs — plan budgets, not government fees

The guide does not list individual government visa fees. What it gives is a bundled “Visa, permits & translations” budget line in each move plan, and those lines are the only sourced cost figures for the application itself:

• $700 — Affordable plan (you file yourself)
• $1,050 — Mid-range and Retirement plans
• $2,500 — Luxury plan (the plan notes the luxury tier adds an immigration lawyer)

The Retirement plan carries one further, separate line: $1,900 for “Retirement visa, lawyer & pension certification”, covering an immigration lawyer, apostilled pension letters, medicals and translations.

Application steps and timelines, by tier

The guide builds the application into each plan's timeline rather than printing a single step list. The common sequence across the plans and checklists is:

• Scout first if you can — the visa list builds scouting into the 30-day visa on arrival, extendable to 60.
• Choose the route and print its requirements; the Affordable checklist starts with “Visa route chosen and requirements printed.”
• Gather and legalise documents — apostilles and translations are named in every tier; the Retirement paperwork stage adds pension or income letters certified and apostilled, a police certificate, a medical, and birth and marriage certificates translated.
• Check your passport — the Affordable checklist requires a passport valid 18+ months.
• Arrange health insurance before you file (see the Hospitals page — Bali's healthcare score makes this more than a formality).
• File — yourself on the Affordable tier, or with a lawyer or agent on the Mid-range, Luxury and Retirement tiers.

Paperwork-stage durations in the guide: ~10 weeks filing yourself (Affordable), ~8 weeks with a lawyer or agent filing (Mid-range), ~6 weeks with a lawyer filing everything (Luxury), and ~14 weeks for the Retirement paperwork stage. After the move, the settle stage includes registering your address and opening a bank account.

Renewals and the path to residency — partly sourced, partly the honest limit

For the Retirement KITAS, the guide's retirement text states two pathway facts: it is renewable, and it leads to permanent residence after five years. For the E33G and the Second Home visa, neither the guide nor the site data gives renewal intervals, extension mechanics, or a path beyond the printed durations (one year; 5–10 years) — so this page states none for those routes. The only extension either source quantifies is the scouting one: 30 days on arrival, extendable to 60.

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