Hi, folks, I planed to attend Wikimania this year, and the Poland consulat tell me generally they would take 3 weeks for the visa applications. Also I need invitation letters to Poland first before applying visa. So my questions are: - When will Wikimania open for registration? - Can I get the invitation letters on time? Thanks for help. Regards, Mingli

2010/5/24 Jeromy-Yu Chan (Jerry~Yuyu) <jerry.tschan.yu(a)gmail.com>om>: I am not quite sure if the letter from WMF might work as the WMF is not a Polish organisation. Anyway, WMPL although is not directly organising Wikimania may send such a letter. For that purpose we need: *Full name of the applicant (as written in passport) *Passport no, home address (as written in passport) *Duration of stay in Poland (dates of arrival and coming back). Bear in mind that the list of countries which signed an agreement with Poland about visa-free traveling is quite long. The current one can be found here: http://www.msz.gov.pl/Countries,which,citizens,are,not,required,to,have,a,v… http://tinyurl.com/98ufmc If traveling from countries from outside EU which are on visa-free list, bear in mind, that without Shengen visa you can enter Poland, but crossing border of other Shengen country (although there is no passport control in trains and when traveling by car) might be illegal, so if you plan to do this you need a Shengen visa anyway. -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.ptchem.lodz.pl/en/TomaszGanicz.html _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l

Hello, Regarding visas: we are now working with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to make this process easier. The process we are going to use is to inform the MFA and the respective consulate about participants that are going to apply for a visa.

Thanks, Ting. Hi, Marcin. Is it possible to send invitation letters to people in Mainland China earlier? If it is possible, I can give you more detailed information. Thanks very much. Regards, Mingli (Mountain) On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Ting Chen <wing.philopp(a)gmx.de> wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l