Most people researching residential rehab in Bali get to the same question fairly quickly. How long am I actually allowed to stay? It matters more than it first looks, because the visa you arrive on sets a hard limit on your time in the country, and that limit is shorter than a lot of people assume.
The short version is that a visa on arrival covers 30 days and can be extended once, to 60. Anything longer needs a different visa. The part most people do not realise is that we handle the visa for you either way, and it is included in your program fees.
Figures here come from the Indonesian Directorate General of Immigration and the Australian Government’s Smartraveller advice, and were correct as at 1 November 2026. Immigration rules can change at short notice, so treat this as background rather than the last word on your own situation.
How long can you stay in Bali on a visa on arrival?
The visa on arrival, listed by Indonesian Immigration as the B1 visa, allows a stay of 30 days from the date you arrive. It can be extended one time for another 30 days, which gives you 60 days in the country at most. The current fee is IDR 500,000, roughly AUD 50.
You apply for the electronic version, the e-VOA, online before you travel. The extension is then lodged from inside Indonesia rather than from home.
One detail catches people out. The extension has to be applied for within that first 30 day window, not after it lapses.
What if you are staying longer than 60 days?
Sixty days is the ceiling on a visa on arrival, so a longer stay needs a different visa from the outset. Indonesian Immigration publishes a tourism visitor visa, the C1, which allows 60 days from arrival and can be extended several times up to 180 days in total. That one has to be applied for before you travel.
There is a second path for people who are already here. If you arrive on a visa on arrival and later decide to stay on past the 60 days, there are options to extend further without leaving the country. Which one applies depends on your circumstances and on the immigration requirements at the time, so it is worked out case by case rather than decided in advance.
What matters for planning is that the old approach of flying out of Indonesia and straight back in, sometimes called a visa run, is not something our clients need to do.
We arrange the visa for you
Clients often assume the visa is one more thing they have to sort out on top of everything else. It is not. Seasons Bali organises it, working with a visa agent here in Bali, and the application is included in your program fees.
How it runs depends on your timing.
If you are planning ahead and committing to a longer stay, we arrange the appropriate longer-stay visa before you travel to Indonesia. We generally need a couple of weeks to get that organised, which is the main reason to start the conversation earlier rather than later. You can read more about our programs and what each one involves.
Where you need to get here quickly, or you are starting with a shorter stay, we arrange the e-VOA before you fly. That gives you 30 days on arrival, extended onshore to 60. If you then decide to stay on, we handle the next step from here. Our Primary Residential Program is the usual starting point.
That second route is the one we see most often with people whose recovery develops past what they first committed to. Deciding to stay longer does not mean unpicking your travel arrangements.
What else you need before you fly
A few things sit alongside the visa and are easy to miss.
Your passport should have at least six months validity from the dates you plan to enter and leave Indonesia. Travellers have been turned back at the airport over this.
All international passengers have to complete the All Indonesia Arrival Card online, within 72 hours of travelling.
Foreign visitors entering Bali also pay a tourist levy of IDR 150,000 per person.
Our Preparation page covers the rest of it, including what to bring and how to handle work and finances before you go.
Medication you can and cannot bring
Prescription medication should travel in its original containers, with the labels intact. Tell your Client Liaison what you are taking before you arrive, because our clinical team will want to speak with your prescribing doctor at home and handle the changeover properly. Do not adjust your own dosage in the lead up to arrival.
There is one category that needs stating plainly. Cannabis based products are illegal in Indonesia. That includes CBD oil, creams, hemp, THC and edibles, and it includes products prescribed to you by an Australian doctor. Smartraveller is blunt about it: a medical prescription does not make it legal. Penalties for drug offences in Indonesia are severe. Smartraveller sets out the full range, which runs from fines and deportation through to imprisonment and, for serious offences, the death penalty.
If you hold a medicinal cannabis prescription, raise it with your prescriber and with our Client Liaison well before you travel rather than working it out at the airport.
What happens if you overstay
Overstaying a stay permit, or breaching Indonesian immigration rules in other ways, can bring fines, detention, deportation and bans on re-entering the country. Immigration and visa decisions in Indonesia are final, and the Australian Government cannot intervene on your behalf.
None of that is meant to alarm anyone. It is the reason we handle the paperwork rather than leaving it with people who are arriving for treatment and have enough on their minds.
Common questions about visas and length of stay
Can I extend a visa on arrival more than once?
No. Indonesian Immigration allows one extension of a visa on arrival, for a further 30 days, giving a maximum stay of 60 days in total. Staying beyond that means moving to a different visa. We sort that out from here, so it does not fall to you to work out which one applies.
Do I need to arrange the visa myself?
No. Seasons Bali arranges it with our visa agent in Bali, and the application is included in your program fees. Tell us roughly how long you are planning to stay and when you want to come, and we will organise the right visa. Get in touch before you book flights, because the order you do things in matters.
How much notice do you need to organise a longer-stay visa?
Around a fortnight for a visa arranged before you travel. If you need to get to Bali sooner than that, we use the e-VOA instead, which is quicker to put in place and gives you 30 days on arrival with an extension to 60. Either way it is handled for you.
What if I decide to stay longer once I am here?
It happens often. There are options to extend without leaving Indonesia, so no flying out and back just to reset a visa. What is available depends on your circumstances and the immigration rules at the time, and we work it through with you and our visa agent while you are still in the program.
There are more answers on our frequently asked questions page.
Talk it through before you book anything
Questions about visas usually arrive attached to bigger ones. How long the program should be, what it costs, and whether travelling this far is the right call at all. Our team is used to taking those calls, from people asking for themselves and from families asking on someone else’s behalf. If you have not already, it is worth reading why we run the program in northern Bali.
Ring us or send an enquiry through the contact page. There is no cost for the call, and our privacy and confidentiality policy sets out how your enquiry is handled.
