Re: [Wikimania-l] Visa rejections

DaB.: Wikimania has already been held in a military dictatorship (Egypt, 2008), without particular problems. But I suggest that this thread is not helped by personal opinions of countries. I applaud Mykola for introducing actual data into the discussion. A. On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 6:48 PM cs

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Do you have any idea what you are talking about? I’ve lived here for nearly 20 years along with a million other Western expats. Or would you prefer SA with its extremely high crime rate and a history of bigotry that still lingers to this day. Now that’s a place I won’t be gong to. Kudpung >

Re: [Wikimania-l] Visa rejections

I would rather say it should not be the only measure. Of course Israel is a very special case (and so are countries whose governments ban Israeli citizens from entering their countries). Other than that we have multiple measures of visa-friendliness: * number of countries whose citizens do not

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Number of countries that can enter a country without visa is not a good measurement for a country being visa-friendly. Let's use your example. Per what you said it seems Israel is a more visa friendly country than Italy which is not correct. It's correct Israel allows more people to visit without

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Hi, For the sake of the discussion on "it's way better in my country", please look what your country's visa policy really is. For instance, check  https://www.passportindex.org/byWelcomingRank.php or relative (English) Wikipedia articles. The former gives the following figures: (Five latest

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Hello, Am 02.07.2017 um 13:37 schrieb cs: > a country like Thailand where I live you mean a country which is currently a military dictatorship (for the second time in 10 years)? A country that was THIS close to a open civil war? And if not a civil war, maybe a real war with Cambodia? Visa

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I think this another good argument for holding Wikimania in a country like Thailand where I live, that has one of the most open travel doors in the world. The nationals of most countries can arrive here without any special documentation except of course a valid passport, and

Re: [Wikimania-l] Visa rejections

Sadly not just Canada. I know the UK keeps the passport of applicants while they process the visa, and Georgians applying for a UK visa will have that processed in Ankara. Though the 8 weeks is slow for a visitor visa, not much chance to attend a funeral with that. On a more practical note,

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2017-06-22 13:57 GMT+03:00 Lodewijk : > > 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

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That makes it sound even worse (creepy even, given the 8 weeks and counting time frame) On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 9:13 AM, Mardetanha wrote: > ​Canadian visas are kinda different from rest of the world, Iran, > Azerbaijan and Georgia and turkey are considered in Visa

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​Canadian visas are kinda different from rest of the world, Iran, Azerbaijan and Georgia and turkey are considered in Visa center in Ankara. Most Arabic countries are being considered in Amman Jordan. some Caucasian are being considered in Moscow and in Europe most are in VAC office in Paris ​. so

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Wow so sorry to read this, Armine! If the pillars of our community are having their visas "rejected-by-filing-in-Moscow" then this is surely newsworthy? Maybe someone can run a piece on this problem? This case in particular is pretty shocking to me. On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 8:11 AM, Armine Aghayan

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Hello all, I am from Armenia and I applid for a temporary Canadian visa on May 8, 2017 from the Canada visa application centre (CVAC) in Armenia. My documents were transferred from CVAC in Armenia to Embassy of Canada to Moscow on May 15, 2017. On http://www.cic.gc.ca page it says that documents