Ngurah Rai Immigration Office
Bali's main immigration office; deported 331 foreigners in 2025, surpassed in April 2026 alone.
Bali's Ngurah Rai Immigration Office deported 18 foreign nationals between 21 and 27 September 2026, among them a motorcycle instructor it says obtained his remote-worker permit dishonestly.
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The Ngurah Rai Immigration Office is the main immigration enforcement office for Bali, named after Ngurah Rai International Airport, the island's principal international entry point. It works under Indonesia's Directorate General of Immigration and handles permit applications and extensions, compliance checks and deportations for foreigners living on or visiting the island.
Its caseload has grown fast. The office deported 331 foreign nationals in the whole of 2025, and in April 2026 alone it recorded 346 apprehensions. It coordinates the 100-person Bali Immigration Task Force that began patrolling Canggu and Seminyak in 2026.
The office sits at the point where national permit policy meets individual foreigners. Indonesia raised the terms of its E33G remote-worker Visa in 2026 and linked tax records with immigration data, and checks on E33G holders in Bali pass through Ngurah RAI. Those permits come from a central system whose deputy minister, Silmy Karim, was dismissed on 4 June 2026 after his arrest in a permit-extortion case.
Its deportations reach remote-worker permits
In The Week from 21 to 27 September 2026, the office deported 18 foreign nationals from Bali. One of them had been teaching motorcycle riding while holding a remote-worker permit, which the office says he obtained dishonestly.
The case shows where the office now looks. A remote-worker permit allows a foreigner to live in Bali while earning from employers abroad, not to sell services to people on the island. By acting on what a permit holder does day to day, rather than only on overstays, the office turns the permit's conditions into an enforcement test. That pace follows a sharp rise earlier in the year, when April 2026 apprehensions alone outnumbered the office's deportations for all of 2025.
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