We would advise attendees from countries that required a Hong Kong visiting visa should plan and apply now.
If you encounter any problems with visa after you applied, please do send us an email to wikimania@wikimedia.hk with your full name, nationality, Hong Kong visa application number, passport number in order for us to follow up. We will forward it to Hong Kong Immigration Department through Hong Kong Tourism Board.
Simon
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Jeremy Baron jeremy@tuxmachine.com wrote:
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 3:49 AM, Simon Shek simon.shek@wikimedia.hk wrote:
Those who required a visit visa to Hong Kong should notice that the processing time for a Hong Kong visit visa is about four weeks [2].
There's some people (well, at least 1) that are *still* waiting for a decision on their visa applications for Wikimania 2012.
If there's any reason to suspect that people from a particular country would have a harder time getting their application through than people from other countries then they should just play it safe and apply sooner than later. If that means applying before the scholarship decisions are in then so be it. IMHO
-Jeremy