Visa processing at Bali's Denpasar airport has always been notoriously slow. Too many planes arrive in a 4 hour period between 1pm and 5pm, there are not enough immigration officers (maybe 4-5 on a good day) and they often insist on a lengthy question and answer session.
This sort of service for tourists arriving from distant locations does not help serve the Bali tourism ndustry at all. In fact it is one of the negatives associated with coming to Bali.
A recent account of arrival processing times at 9pm revealed an approximate 30 minute wait before being stamped. Once immigrantiion is cleared Customs clearance is fast. The next hurdle is hiring a taxi, a process that itself took about 20 minnutes recently.
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