Bali Visa on Arrival: Cost and the One-Time Extension, 2026

Indonesia’s Visa on Arrival (VOA) has held at IDR 500,000, roughly USD 32-35 depending on the exchange rate, for several years running as of 2026 — but immigration fees do move, so confirm the current figure on the official evisa.imigrasi.go.id portal before you fly rather than relying on any figure printed elsewhere, including this one. Citizens of the US, UK, Australia and around 90 other countries qualify for VOA on arrival in Bali, valid for 30 days from entry and covering tourism purposes only.

How to actually get it

You have two practical routes in 2026. The first is applying online through the official e-VOA portal before departure, which lets you pay by card, upload a passport photo and a return-flight itinerary, and arrive with a QR code that speeds up the immigration line at Ngurah Rai. The second is paying in person at the airport counter on arrival, in cash or by card, which still works but means standing in a slower-moving queue alongside everyone who didn’t pre-apply. For a trip already scheduled, the online route is worth the ten minutes it takes, especially given how the arrivals hall crowds up around the peak flight banks from Australia and Northeast Asia.

The one-time 30-day extension, step by step

Every VOA can be extended exactly once, for another 30 days, and never for a second time — after the extended 60 days, you must leave Indonesia and re-enter to start a fresh VOA period. The extension is filed online through the same evisa.imigrasi.go.id system or through a local immigration agent in Bali, and it must be started before your original 30 days expire, not after. Processing typically takes several business days, during which your passport status shows as pending rather than approved, so build in a buffer rather than filing on day 29. The extension fee is separate from the original VOA fee and, again, is best confirmed on the official portal at the time you apply rather than assumed from an older figure.

Where the online process communicates

The extension process is entirely online-facing: status updates, requests for additional documents and confirmation of approval all arrive through the immigration portal or by email, not in person. That makes a working data connection the thing standing between you and knowing whether your extension actually went through, particularly if you filed through an agent who is relaying portal updates to you by message. Travelers who let their eSIM lapse mid-extension have found themselves unable to check status at the exact moment it mattered, which is a solvable problem — see our what is an eSIM guide if you’re unfamiliar with how activation works, and keep the same plan running through the extension window rather than assuming you’ll deal with connectivity once the paperwork clears.

What happens if you don’t extend in time

Missing the extension window doesn’t quietly reset your clock — VOA holders who let the original 30 days lapse without filing are treated as overstaying from day 31, and the per-day fine structure kicks in immediately. That’s a distinct problem from the extension itself, and if you’re already close to your exit date and unsure where you stand, our overstay fine breakdown walks through exactly what the fine costs and when it escalates past a fine into something more serious.

VOA path	Length	Extendable	Where filed
Standard Visa on Arrival	30 days	Once, +30 days	evisa.imigrasi.go.id or airport
Extended VOA	60 days total	No	Same portal, before day 30
B211A (longer stays)	60 days, extendable twice	Up to 180 days	Immigration agent or portal

Documents worth having ready

The e-VOA application asks for a passport with at least six months’ validity remaining from your entry date, a passport-style photo, and evidence of onward or return travel — an unconfirmed one-way ticket is a common rejection reason, so book or at least reserve a return flight before you apply. Some applicants are also asked to show proof of accommodation for their stay, which can be a hotel booking confirmation rather than a full itinerary. None of this is unusual by international standards, but the portal will reject an incomplete application outright rather than flagging what’s missing in plain language, so travelers who’ve had an application bounced back tend to say the same thing: gather everything before you start the form rather than partway through it.

Paying at the airport instead

If you’d rather skip the online form entirely, the airport counter still accepts VOA payments on arrival, in Indonesian rupiah cash or by card, at the desk before you reach the immigration queue proper. This works fine outside peak arrival windows, but during the busiest hours — mid-afternoon flight banks from Australia and evening arrivals from Singapore and Kuala Lumpur — the combined queue for paying and then clearing immigration can run well past what a pre-cleared e-VOA traveler experiences. Given that the online form takes a few minutes and the fee is identical either way, there’s little practical reason to choose the airport queue unless you’re arriving with no internet access at all beforehand, which is itself an argument for having a plan active from the moment you land rather than relying on the airport’s public WiFi to fill out a form under time pressure.

If 60 days genuinely isn’t enough

Some travelers, particularly remote workers based in Canggu or Ubud, find that even the extended 60-day VOA window is short for what they’re planning, and start looking at the B211A route instead, which stretches to 180 days across its own extensions. That’s a different visa category with its own cost and process — our B211A visa guide covers the numbers for anyone considering it as an alternative to repeated VOA runs.

Whichever path applies to your trip, the fee itself is the one number worth double-checking close to your travel date. Immigration fee schedules in Indonesia are set by government regulation and do get revised, and a figure that was accurate in early 2026 is not guaranteed to hold for the rest of the year. Check current pricing for your data plan alongside the visa fee when you’re budgeting a trip, and the FAQ covers common questions about combining a VOA stay with an eSIM that’s already active before you land.