Four foreigners will be deported out of Bali this week for violating their visa permits, reported Antara last night. Better listen up to this one if you find yourself misusing your visa on arrival.
Antara identified the foreigners as three British nationals, Steven Thomas Gibbs, 25, Nancy May Evans, 23 and Nicholas William Thomas Jones, 22, along with American Marina Naloni Bozlee, 17.
But the reprimand doesn’t stop with getting deported. These four will be banned from entering Indonesia for the next six months. Ouch.
They were found out by immigration police during a routine raid in the Seminyak area. The four were working at a store on Jl. Oberoi when they were arrested.
“They misused their stay permit. They came to Indonesia through the visa-on-arrival facility that does not offer work permits to visitors,” explained Chief of Supervisory Unit of Bali Immigration, Mohamad Soleh, as quoted by Antara.
According to Soleh, 114 foreigners are being deported from Bali just this month, November 2014. Last year at the same time, 78 foreigners were deported. Seventy percent of the deportees were Australians, but the remaining nationalities were reportedly the United States, Russia, England, France, Singapore, China, New Zealand, Venezuela, Malaysia, Japan, Taiwan, Greece, and Kazakhstan.
Source: Antara
Photo: Flickr/Neerav Bhatt
