Ehm... scholarship and suprise?
You should be able to check if its possble to get a visa before you apply?
The same goes for taking vacation....
2011/11/1 Mateus Nobre <mateus.nobre(a)live.co.uk>
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....
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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 20:26:02 +0000
From: berialima(a)gmail.com
To: wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2012: The Visas Issue
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 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.
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On 1 November 2011 20:20, Mateus Nobre <mateus.nobre(a)live.co.uk> wrote:
http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/without/without_1990.html#countries
Hello everyone,
As you know in 2012, United States will held Wikimania at Washington D.C.!
Yeah.
But make a Wikimania in U.S.A. have some problems, you probably know it
but I wanna clarify to you.
U.S. just dispense visas to thirty-six nations. All of the dozens left
over need a visa to enter in.
Last year I was selected to attend Wikimania 2011 at Haifa* (the best
moments ever in my life, btw, would love to support Washington too, ops :D)
* and WMF contacted me six months before.
In this ''six months before'' have one problem.
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.
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.
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.
What do you think?
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