My Softpower DTV (Cooking) was just approved in Jakarta:

Timeline

* Aug 15 (Thursday) night: Arrived in Bali

* Aug 16 (Friday) 1:00 am: Submitted application

* Aug 19 (Tuesday) 12:15 pm: Request for additional documents

* Aug 19 (Tuesday) 2:15 pm: Submitted documents

* Aug 19 (Tuesday) 5:40 pm: Approved

Documents

* School’s packet with cover letter, copy of owner’s ID, copy of passport, receipt, photos of the school, and class schedule; mentioned enrollment for six months, no details on number of classes

* Photo of the biopage of passport

* Photo taken on iPhone (background removed using remove.bg)

* Presence documents: flight booking, hotel bookings, photo of Indonesian visa stamp (I couldn’t use the e-gates because I declared a cough on the entry card)

* Financial documents: cover letter, 3 bank statements (only 2 showing 500k), brokerage statement showing more than 500k

Additional document request

They asked for a passport photo without glasses and every page of my passport. I went to a local photographer who took new pictures and scanned my passport for me for about 80k IDR (~160 THB).

When cancelling an ED extension, how long before the extension or school letter end date can you cancel?

I’ve got the school letter saying the official course end date is 5 days after the extension ends but was planning on leaving two weeks before the extension ends.

Ed-Visa question : I'm on third yearly extension of stay studying a Bachelors degree. My extension of stay is valid until dec17 and the official end of my last term will be dec7. BUT I'll be done with all courses and really everything for my degree by the end of august. University never had a foreign student before doing an entire degree with them (only some exchange students from china and Cambodia) and zey don't seem to know anything about having to call in with immigration and cancel my extension of stay. They said I can stay until the end of my current stamp. What do you think, if I don't have any more proof of actually studying from August onwards, but technically still am a student until dec7, what should I actually be doing about it. Any thoughts? Thanks y'all, you're always great!