[Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2012: The Visas Issue

[Béria Lima]

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We also have wikipt at lists.wikimedia.org , lista at 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 ;) )
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On 1 November 2011 20:29, Mateus Nobre <mateus.nobre at 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....
>
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> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 20:26:02 +0000
> From: berialima at gmail.com
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> To: wikimania-l at 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.
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>
> *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
> livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que
> estamos a fazer <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos>.*
>
>
> On 1 November 2011 20:20, Mateus Nobre <mateus.nobre at 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.
>
> What do you think?
>
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