As of 11 November 2025, the Directorate General of Immigration of Indonesia has implemented a temporary immigration hold affecting visa applicants from four nationalities: Sri Lanka, Sudan, Bangladesh, and Palestine. This hold applies across all visa categories processed through the centralized Indonesian electronic visa system (eVisa), including applications submitted through licensed visa agencies such as Flado as well as those submitted directly through Indonesian embassies abroad.

Under this hold, all newly submitted and paid visa applications from these nationalities automatically remain in verification status without progressing to the document review or approval stages. These applications are not rejected; however, immigration authorities have paused processing until further notice. No estimated timeline for the resumption of normal processing has been provided by immigration officials.

In addition to Sudan, immigration officers have informed Flado that Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Palestine are also under practical immigration hold. Although not all of these restrictions have been announced publicly, they are fully active within the visa processing system and apply to all applications submitted from the relevant dates onward.

Updated Status for Sri Lankan Citizens

Flado’s internal records show that the last successfully approved visa for a Sri Lankan citizen was issued on 30 October 2025. All submissions from Sri Lankan citizens starting from 10 November 2025 are currently stuck in verification status and have not been processed further.

This means:

• Applications are not rejected
• They remain in the verification queue
• Processing will resume only once immigration lifts the hold
• No agency, including Flado, can accelerate or override this status

This situation is fully consistent with similar system-wide holds implemented by immigration authorities in previous years.

Historical Holds for Sri Lanka (2022 Case)

Sri Lanka previously experienced a similar visa suspension in 2022. During that time, Indonesian immigration temporarily halted the processing of all visa applications from Sri Lankan citizens:

• On Hold Announcement (10 August 2022):
  https://flado.id/2022/08/10/the-visa-application-process-for-sri-lankan-citizens-is-temporarily-on-hold/
• Hold Lifted (3 November 2022):
  https://flado.id/2022/11/03/the-visa-application-process-for-sri-lankan-citizens-was-resumed/

This earlier hold lasted approximately four months (July–November 2022). It demonstrates that such restrictions, while disruptive, are often temporary and lifted once immigration authorities assess that conditions have stabilised.

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