I think it's better you advance your visa... _____________________ MateusNobre MetalBrasil on Wikimedia projects (+55) 85 88393509 30440865 From: mardetanha.wiki(a)gmail.com Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 00:32:08 +0330 To: wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania-l Digest, Vol 68, Issue 4 And I live in Iran, which US has no embassy, so I have travel to turkey or UAE for the visa at least two times, to apply for the visa, 6 month is the minimum time that i need to apply Mardetanha On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:19 AM, <wikimania-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: Send Wikimania-l mailing list submissions to wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wikimania-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wikimania-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Wikimania-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Wikimania 2012: The Visas Issue (Mateus Nobre) 2. Re: Wikimania 2012: The Visas Issue (Thomas Dalton) 3. Re: Wikimania 2012: The Visas Issue (B?ria Lima) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 23:44:59 +0300 From: Mateus Nobre <mateus.nobre(a)live.co.uk> Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2012: The Visas Issue To: <wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <SNT121-W1120B0A82FD4642C262EBABFD70(a)phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Yeah Thomas, I forgot that. It's prundet give the scolarschips to whom already have the visas. Two months would be impossible normally (at least for Brazil, idk for other countried visa-needed). We could request special priority, but it's risky and always can be denied. _____________________ MateusNobre MetalBrasil on Wikimedia projects (+55) 85 88393509 30440865 From: mateus.nobre(a)live.co.uk To: wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 23:41:09 +0300 Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2012: The Visas Issue Yeah, but not all brazilians editors follow these lists. A good idea too give priority to whom already have the visa. This could avoid problems to Wikimania staff. _____________________ MateusNobre MetalBrasil on Wikimedia projects (+55) 85 88393509 30440865 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 20:36:20 +0000 From: berialima(a)gmail.com To: wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2012: The Visas Issue wikimediabr-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org is there for this. We also have wikipt(a)lists.wikimedia.org , lista(a)wikimedia.pt and http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Esplanada (if you can't follow any of those list and is brasilian I don't know what else they can be ;) ) _____ B?ria Lima (351) 925 171 484 Imagine um mundo onde ? dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somat?rio de todo o conhecimento humano. ? isso o que estamos a fazer. On 1 November 2011 20:29, Mateus Nobre <mateus.nobre(a)live.co.uk> wrote: 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.... _____________________ MateusNobre MetalBrasil on Wikimedia projects (+55) 85 88393509 30440865 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. _____ B?ria Lima (351) 925 171 484 Imagine um mundo onde ? dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somat?rio de todo o conhecimento humano. ? isso o que estamos a fazer. 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. 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