Wow, this seems to involve a huge change in policy and could have serious
consequences for EU projects which generally involve many different national
partners including institutions in the UK. Aside from funding complications,
many projects involve regular meetings which rotate from one partner site to
another, and the idea of organising a meeting or workshop in the UK has
become kind of scary. In any case, from what Gavin posted I can see that my
visits to the UK will be curtailed.
This seems a bit like what happened with the US after 9/11 when foreign
scholars started having (more) trouble attending meetings in the US and many
just stopped coming. The result was that many organisations that used to
meet regularly in the US started meeting in Canada and other countries.
I guess that there will be a lot of incentive for European organisations to
keep their meetings within the Schengen zone in the future! (The Schengen
zone is the part of Europe where one can travel without border controls -
the UK and Ireland are outside it).
Bill Silvert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gavin Simpson" <[email protected]>
To: "William Silvert" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: quinta-feira, 29 de Outubro de 2009 9:45
Subject: Re: A WARNING FOR PROFESSIONALS GOING TO THE UNITED KINGDOM
In the UK case, this link:
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/documents/policyandlaw/IDIs/idischapter2/Chapter2__visitoridi.pdf?view=Binary
(Make sure your mailer doesn't wrap that)
describes what UK Border Agency considers to be an Academic Visitor
(Section 2.3 of that pdf). There's a lot more to it that this, but this
opening section that I've cut-n-pasted from the PDF outlines what the
rules are for an Academic Visitor:
