Re: [Wikimania-l] Visa rejections

My visa is also got rejected. So I am not coming to Canada this year. I think Canada is a bad place for Wikimania due to their strict rules. And thinking that is not a tourist friendly country. On 22-Jun-2017 8:59 PM, "Ivan Martínez" wrote: > Following the Stuart's

Re: [Wikimania-l] Visa rejections

My visa is also got rejected. So I am not coming to Canada this year. I think Canada is a bad place for Wikimania due to their strict rules. And thinking that is not a tourist friendly country. On 23-Jun-2017 12:52 AM, "Jayanta Nath" wrote: > I think Wikimedia Canada not

[Wikimania-l] Visa rejections

I think Wikimedia Canada not send any intimation to their Embassy of respective countries. Jayanta Nath ___ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l

Re: [Wikimania-l] Visa rejections

Following the Stuart's commentary, for Mexico City the low rate of rejection was not for free. I supposed my country was a friendly destination because their history welcoming people from all over the world until I was involved in the visa process for many wikimedians who faced different kind of

Re: [Wikimania-l] Visa rejections

In addition, providing this *true assistance* won't be for *all* attendees. In many cases, only a select few of the total attendees will have the visa-related issues. Thus, say out of 100 applicants, just less than 20 individuals might need the assistance beyond the letter at their local

Re: [Wikimania-l] Visa rejections

What problems are expected for middle eastern attendees to Cape Town? What countries passports are expected to have problems? Cheers, Peter From: Wikimania-l [mailto:wikimania-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gnangarra Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2017 12:14 PM To: Wikimania general

Re: [Wikimania-l] Visa rejections

Esino Lario too.  There was a plan to transit people through Switzerland like second option using the Maastricht's agreement. As I know this option was not used. Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Original message From: Stuart Prior Date:

Re: [Wikimania-l] Visa rejections

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 1:24 PM, Stuart Prior wrote: > Lodewijk, AFAIK we've never kept track of rejections, but I could find > out. My gut feeling is that there hasn't been a massive variation over the > past 4 years, I think Mexico City was the most open to

Re: [Wikimania-l] Visa rejections

Well, the goal won't be to *influence* or whatnot. That isn't gonna work. The goal is to provide extra details and answer questions that might come up. Some systems aren't entirely closed. From the outside, it looks closed, but a closer look reveals there's the option for recognized organizations

Re: [Wikimania-l] Visa rejections

In 2013, a number of Wikimania attendees had their Hong Kong visas stuck in the pipeline at the local Chinese embassies with no response to any enquiry. A month before Wikimania, a local sponsor of Wikimania 2013 (DotAsia) agreed to be guarantor and negotiated directly with the Immigration

Re: [Wikimania-l] Visa rejections

Lodewijk, AFAIK we've never kept track of rejections, but I could find out. My gut feeling is that there hasn't been a massive variation over the past 4 years, I think Mexico City was the most open to everybody (?) Rexford, possibly (and yeah Wiki = Wikileaks is *always* a problem lol). But some

Re: [Wikimania-l] Visa rejections

It is easy to conclude the location hinders visa application acceptance. As much as it appears to be so, I strongly believe if there's good enough Visa support and assistance from the Wikimania Team/WMF, rejected cases could be low. Obviously, an applicant should have documents intact and good,

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I wonder, do we keep track of the number of visa rejections year over year, so that we know in comparison? There are of course many factors that go into venue selection - one of them is visa (another is security, political stability etc). The countries that I remember going relatively smoothly

Re: [Wikimania-l] Visa rejections

This is a big issue and I think should be looked into more seriously. Similar challenges were faced by participants from the Global South selected to attend the CC Summit in Toronto early this year. This should inform future selection for all conference venues as it allows for poor representation

Re: [Wikimania-l] Visa rejections

These issues are a symptom of the closed processes that have occurred firstly with Montreal and next year with middle eastern attendees to Cape Town . Acknowledging that the change was because of the amount effort put in by unsuccessful bidders was said to be wasted its showing that some things

Re: [Wikimania-l] Visa rejections

That’s one of the reasons why I proposed Bangkok, Thailand, for 2019 - apart from its extremely tolerant social cultures and very low cost, while being a very modern hi-tech city easily accessible by direct flights from most parts of the world. Almost everyone can enter the country

Re: [Wikimania-l] Visa rejections

+1, I'm as well shocked to hear of so many unsuccessful visa applications this year. Regards, Leon > Am 2017-06-22 um 11:23 schrieb Bodhisattwa Mandal > : > > Hi, > > The main topic of discussion among the scholarship recipients from global > south this month is

[Wikimania-l] Visa rejections

Hi, The main topic of discussion among the scholarship recipients from global south this month is the high visa rejection rate by Canadian embassies from these countries. This year, we had 7 scholarship recipients from Bengali community, 4 from India and 3 from Bangladesh. Already 3 out of 4