Ellie Young
eyoung@wikimedia.org

On Jan 19, 2014, at 8:49 AM, Tobias <church.of.emacs.ml@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 01/13/2014 02:13 AM, Ellie Young wrote:
>> And while we are on this subject, I want to reiterate  that we expect
>> individuals to cover their own visa expenses as well as contacting the
>> British Consulate on their own or through a visa service in their home
>> country. The UK accepts applications for visas 90 days prior to the
>> expected date of entering the UK (applying before doesn't do any good.)
>
> Incidentally, why do Wikimedia scholarships not cover or at least assist
> with the expenses of getting a visa?

We in fact do handle requests for financial assistance for VISA application fees on a case by case basis.  We are still expecitng people to cover, but if circumstances are so dire financially we will assist.

> It seems that the people affected by this are (on average) the ones who
> need the support of a scholarship the most in order to be able to attend
> Wikimania. If the UK is discriminating against our contributors'
> nationalities, we might not be able to do much about it (although we
> definitely should try to). But at the very least we can help with the
> financial discrepancy.
>
> -- Tobias
>
>
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