<div dir="ltr"><div><div>I'm sorry...but this one is a red flag. <br><br></div>Canadian passports are only issued to Canadian citizens, and Canadian citizens do not require a visa to come to Canada, regardless of where in the world they are when they start their trip. They must enter Canada using their Canadian passport for any related travel information (i.e., using the Canadian passport for airline information), at the time of boarding and at the time of arrival in Canada. If ViswaPrabha is a dual citizen, then both passports should be carried at all times. <br><br></div><div>If he applied for a visa, he received horrible advice. If he is a Canadian citizen, he can probably still travel, and should contact the Ministry of Immigration and Citizenship directly. <br><br></div><div>Risker/Anne<br></div><div><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 July 2017 at 22:51, Ranjith S <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ranjith.sajeev@gmail.com" target="_blank">ranjith.sajeev@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">On a conversation with ViswaPrabha he confirmed that he got visa rejection from Canadian embessy so can't participate in this wikimania. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">He is holding a Canadian passport but got bad. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Very sad to hear this.</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28-Jul-2017 3:50 AM, "Ellie Young" <<a href="mailto:eyoung@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">eyoung@wikimedia.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">We have a waitlist from the original pool of people who made it into Phase 2 consideration by the Scholarship committee. Those people were notified that they might be offered a scholarship as late as mid-July. We have filled the people who couldn't attend for whatever reason after they accepted the scholarship offer with names from there.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Ellie</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">WMF Event Manager</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 3:48 AM, Rehman Abubakr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rehman.wikimedia@live.com" target="_blank">rehman.wikimedia@live.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt">Excuse me for the blunt question. But are there any shortlisted candidates this time?</span><br>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt">A fellow Wikimedian asked me this, and I though I might as well ask the same on this thread.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt">I'm sure there would be a lot of genuinely interested Wikimedians who would like to attend the conference, in lieu of the sheer number of rejected applicants. (with respect to the successful applicants who would not be able
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(117,123,128)">Thanks and regards,</span></p>
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