As per WMF directions, Wikimedia Canada was not involved in anything in
relations to visas. The WMF is taking care of that themselves. They did not
ask us to write anything to embassies.
I am sorry that Canada has strict rules on visa requirements for a lot of
countries.
Jean-Philippe Béland
Vice President, Wikimedia Canada
User:Amqui
On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 11:03 PM, Ranjith S <ranjith.sajeev(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
My visa is also got rejected. So I am not coming to
Canada this year. I
think Canada is a bad place for Wikimania due to their strict rules. And
thinking that is not a tourist friendly country.
On 23-Jun-2017 12:52 AM, "Jayanta Nath" <jayantanth(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think Wikimedia Canada not send any intimation
to their Embassy of
respective countries.
Jayanta Nath
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