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<font style="font-size:10pt;" face="Garamond" size="2">Yeah Thomas, I forgot that.<br>It's prundet give the scolarschips to whom already have the visas. Two months would be impossible normally (at least for Brazil, idk for other countried visa-needed). We could request special priority, but it's risky and always can be denied.<br></font><br><font style="font-size:12pt" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><font style="" face="Comic Sans MS">_____________________<br>M</font>ateus<font style="" face="Comic Sans MS">N</font><font style="" face="Times New Roman">obre<br><i><font style="font-size:10pt" face="Garamond" size="2"><font style="" color="#7F7F7F">MetalBrasil on Wikimedia projects</font><br><font style="" face="Tahoma"><font style="" color="#595959">(+55) 85 88393509</font><font style="" color="#595959"><br></font><font style="" color="#595959"> 30440865</font><br></font></font></i></font></font><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: mateus.nobre@live.co.uk<br>To: wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org<br>Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 23:41:09 +0300<br>Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2012: The Visas Issue<br><br>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" face="Garamond" size="2">Yeah, but not all brazilians editors follow these lists.<br><br>A good idea too give priority to whom already have the visa. This could avoid problems to Wikimania staff. <br id="ecxFontBreak"></font><br><br><font style="font-size:12pt" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><font style="" face="Comic Sans MS">_____________________<br>M</font>ateus<font style="" face="Comic Sans MS">N</font><font style="" face="Times New Roman">obre<br><i><font style="font-size:10pt" face="Garamond" size="2"><font style="" color="#7F7F7F">MetalBrasil on Wikimedia projects</font><br><font style="" face="Tahoma"><font style="" color="#595959">(+55) 85 88393509</font><font style="" color="#595959"><br></font><font style="" color="#595959"> 30440865</font><br></font></font></i></font></font><br><br><div><hr id="ecxstopSpelling">Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 20:36:20 +0000<br>From: berialima@gmail.com<br>To: wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org<br>Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2012: The Visas Issue<br><br><a href="mailto:wikimediabr-l@lists.wikimedia.org">wikimediabr-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> is there for this.<br><br>We also have <a href="mailto:wikipt@lists.wikimedia.org">wikipt@lists.wikimedia.org</a> , <a href="mailto:lista@wikimedia.pt">lista@wikimedia.pt</a> and <a href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia%3aEsplanada" target="_blank">http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Esplanada</a> (if you can't follow any of those list and is brasilian I don't know what else they can be ;) )<br clear="all">
</font>_____<br><font style="font-family:georgia,serif" size="2"><i>Béria Lima</i></font><br><a href="http://wikimedia.pt/" target="_blank"></a>(351) 925 171 484<br><br><i style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. <a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos" target="_blank"><font color="#333333">É isso o que estamos a fazer</font></a>.</i><br>
<br><br><div class="ecxgmail_quote">On 1 November 2011 20:29, Mateus Nobre <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mateus.nobre@live.co.uk">mateus.nobre@live.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<font style="font-size:10pt" face="Garamond" size="2">For me it's easy. But it could catch someone by surprise and this someone may not have the visa. And take a U.S. visa in six months in some countries is really hard....<br>
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<br><i><font style="font-size:10pt" face="Garamond" size="2"><font color="#7F7F7F">MetalBrasil on Wikimedia projects</font><br><font face="Tahoma"><font color="#595959"><a target="_blank">(+55) 85 88393509</a></font><font color="#595959"><br>
</font><font color="#595959"> 30440865</font><br></font></font></i></div></font></font><br><br><div><hr>Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 20:26:02 +0000<br>From: <a href="mailto:berialima@gmail.com">berialima@gmail.com</a><div class="ecxim">
<br>To: <a href="mailto:wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org">wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2012: The Visas Issue<br><br></div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">How that can be possible if the answers to scholarship applications are made in January - March? I would suggest to - If you applied for the scholarship - send a mail to the USA embassy </font>scheduling the request for visa. If takes at least 3 months, will be done only in Feb (if you request now - December is a dead month in Brazil) and by them, you will have a result for your application.<br clear="all">
_____<br><font style="font-family:georgia,serif" size="2"><i>Béria Lima</i></font><br><a href="http://wikimedia.pt/" target="_blank"></a>(351) 925 171 484<br><br><i style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. <a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos" target="_blank"><font color="#333333">É isso o que estamos a fazer</font></a>.</i><br>
<br><br><div>On 1 November 2011 20:20, Mateus Nobre <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mateus.nobre@live.co.uk">mateus.nobre@live.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<font style="font-size:10pt" face="Garamond" size="2"><a href="http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/without/without_1990.html#countries" target="_blank">http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/without/without_1990.html#countries</a><br>
<br>Hello everyone,<br><br>As you know in 2012, United States will held Wikimania at Washington D.C.! Yeah.<br><br>But make a Wikimania in U.S.A. have some problems, you probably know it but I wanna clarify to you.<br><br>
U.S. just dispense visas to thirty-six nations. All of the dozens left over need a visa to enter in.<br><br></font><font face="Garamond">Last year I was selected to attend Wikimania 2011 at Haifa<i> (the best moments ever in my life, btw, would love to support Washington too, ops :D)</i> and WMF contacted me six months before.</font> <br>
In this ''six months before'' have one problem.<br><br>In Brazil (not only, but in the most countries that need the visa) we take 3 months to schedule (and get some free time - it's vacation in Brazil and the people wanna travel) the visit to U.S. Embassy to require the visa. When we requite the visa, we take more 3~~4 months to receive the answer of Embassy. Over 6 months. And half per cent of the visas are denied. We could appeal, and would take more two months. <br>
<br>It would be the biggest problem ever in a Wikimania organization. And happens in a really lot of countries which need a visa to enter in U.S.A.<br><br>I suggest to announce to the people who live in that countries early. Earliest as possible. Maybe 8 or 9 months before... Take a visa to US really isn't easy.<br>
<br>What do you think?<br><br><font style="font-size:12pt" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS">_____________________<br>M</font>ateus<font face="Comic Sans MS">N</font><font face="Times New Roman">obre<br>
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