> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 21:23:52 +0100
> From: roan.kattouw@gmail.com
> To: wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2012: The Visas Issue
>
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Mateus Nobre <mateus.nobre@live.co.uk> wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> To clarify: you're talking about selecting scholarship recipients, right?
>
> Roan
>
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