[Foundation-l] Partecipation in Wikimania 2011

[Abbas Mahmoud]

Assess the following scenario:

If say, i'm in country X planning to go to Israel. And, i go apply for an Israeli visa; but since i'm working in say, Dubai, the Israeli embassy stamps my visa in a separate paper. I book my ticket to Haifa and go to the airport. For me to board the airline, the airport authorities in my country X need to scrutinise my documents at the immigration desk. Do you think that officer will let me through if the visa isn't stamped on my passport? Doesn't he have the right to deny me passage on grounds that the visa hasn't been stamped on a bonafide document(i.e. The passport)? 

> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:11:35 +0400
> From: putevod at mccme.ru
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Partecipation in Wikimania 2011
> 
> 
> > I am curious if the Israeli embassies are going to be lenient in
> > mid-eastern
> > countries and are aware of the issue, do you have their support? I would
> > also like to ask about the stamp being on a separate page? doesnt the
> Visa
> > have to be on the passport itself, are you talking about
> > two separate things?
> > 
> 
> In the past, sometimes Israeli entry authorities would agree to stamp a
> passport of a citizen of a visa-free country on a separate page
> (technically, on a page that does not belong to the passport) to avoid them
> having Israeli stamps. I am not sure about the citizens of the countries
> which do require visa - I think visa is always on a passport, but I think
> it is easier for the organizers to inquire at the Foreign Ministry.
> 
> It this is indeed the case, the only way I see for a citizen of a country
> A which does not recognize Israel to travel to Israel is the following. To
> travel first to a country B which does recognize Israel, get in B Israeli
> visa (which is anyway impossible to get in A), travel to Israel, lose a
> passport while back in B, apply to the embassy of A in B and get a new
> passport or a return certificate. 
> 
> To me personally it sounds too complicated, but cases could be different.
> 
> Cheers
> Yaroslav
> 
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