On 26/03/12 20:24, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 07:08:22PM +0100, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: >> On 26/03/12 14:31, Shawn Willden wrote: >>> You were denied entry? Was any reason given? >> >> It had to do with me misunderstanding a requirement of the visa waiver >> programme. I'd rather not go into more detail here; it's not relevant to >> tahoe-dev (except that it might limit my ability to go to future Tahoe-LAFS >> summits in the US unless I can get a visa). > > I don't see how what you do is different from being a tourist. You're not > reimbursed, you're not studying, this is all about a tourist attending an > event for fun. Hackfests are fests, right?
If I'd only been intending to attend the hackfest, there wouldn't have been a problem. I'm not going to discuss this further here, though, because it's a legal issue and discussing it in a public forum could conceivably, and unnecessarily, complicate future visa applications. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥
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