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[intan]

Hi. My daughter is Australian, was born there and has an Australian passport. We recently arrived in Indonesia to teach for 2 years. I have a kitas and my daughter arrived on a 30 day tourist visa. My daughter's mum is Indonesian and so we have been able to get dual citizenship. my question is this: At Christmas, when we wanna go to Australia, will there be a problem leaving the country in that my daughter's tourist visa will have expired. The guy who organised the citizenship card said she doesn't need an Indonesian passport you just need to show the citizenship card when you leave the country and there'll be no problems with the expired tourist visa. Does anyone know the rules re this? Do we need to get an Indo passport or will it be ok as the visa guy has told us. I dont wanna be stung for $20 U.S a day for overstaying the tourist visa for 11 months. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[laughing_magpie06]

I would get an Indonesia passport if I were you to avoid any possible hassles or undue worry. As you know in this country government workers seem to make it up as they go so to have all i's dotted and t's crossed is helpful.

[sherlock]

http://www.jakchat.com/

Post it on this forum, these guys are really good for visa issues

[tanyakenapa]

Aside from the citizenship issue, she can always get a "visa ikut orang tua" ("following the parents visa") which is also valid for a year.

I had this while I attended highschool in Jakarta, during my parents time working here.

[intan]

thanks for all the advice guys much appreciated hopefully will get out of it without havign to pay a whole lot of overstaying visa fees...

[jondeg]

Hi,

If your daughter has been receiving dual citizenship. Why then she need a VOA ? Unless, she had dual Citizenship after she got into Indonesia.
Please note :

1. If she has dual citizenship before arrive in Indonesia, She can use Australian Passport departure from Australia and use Indonesia Passport when enter Indonesia. And if she wanna out of Indonesia, use Indonesia passport ( Vice versa). If she do not have Indonesia passport, she need affidavit letter and copy of SK menteri to be stapped on her foreign passport.

2. Existing VISA, I think you need to cancel her VISA once she has her dual citizenship passport/ Afidavit / SK menteri.

here some info I paste from www.kpc.org ( your wife can join this group as its a community for mixed married couple , and send question to them on the millis ). Its free.

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Salam KPC Melati,

Saya cuman mau sharing pengalaman saja mengenai passport anak dwi WN di airport Cengkareng.

Pada waktu pemeriksaan Passport setelah chek-in, saya memakai passport asing anak saya dan tidak memakai passport hijau.
Karena saya penasaran saja ingin tahu apakah perlu tidaknya membuat passport hijau untuk anak saya.

Dan ternyata, selama kita membawa kartu Afidavit dan copy surat SK Mentri, anak saya dapat cap imigrasi pada passport asingnya.
Sehingga tidak perlu memakai passport hijau ( Indonesian Passport).

Sekian saja sharing pengalaman saya.


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[intan]

thanks for the advice jondeg. My daughter actually came over here as an australian citizen so she had to get a tourist visa. we have since obtained indonesian citizenship. what i wanted to know was do i now need to get a indo passport for my daughter or use the australian passport as well as evidence of indo citizenship. thanks

[jondeg]

what i wanted to know was do i now need to get a indo passport for my daughter or use the australian passport as well as evidence of indo citizenship. thanks[/quote]

I had cut and paste the information I've got from KPC forum millist at above.
She wrote that she did not use Indo Passport, she use her children foreign passport , afidavit and copy of SK menteri ( SK= Surat Keputusan ). She wrote that she does not apply any Indo passport for her children.

[sherlock]

Op got his/her answer days ago from Jakchat forum. It is really the best place to ask these sort of visa/immigration issues as the creater and Mod runs a business helping expats with visa and immigration issues.