On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 08:18:04PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > I just don't expect many foreign people being approved for the > visa. This worries me a lot.
http://travel.state.gov/pdf/CombinedRefusalRate.pdf has some actual numbers for fiscal year 2006. Brazil's refusal rate is 13.2%, meaning that 86.8% of Brazilian applications get visas. As a comparison, according to http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/publications/temp-resident-visa.asp Canada (a country where everyone seems fine with holding DebConf) approves just over 80% of visas needed to visit Canada temporarily every year since 1983. Many countries in which DDs live are similarly low or even lower. Argentina's refusal rate is even lower (6.7%). Also read the explanatory notes in that document; the numbers for the 27 Visa Waiver Program countries don't take into account people who come without applying for a visa, so they overestimate the percentage of people who the US wants to keep out. - Jimmy Kaplowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
