I'm flying from Hong Kong to Tel Aviv on an El Al flight, holding a British passport with a Malaysian stamp from this January (along with a few other stamps from USA, Taiwan and Japan from previous years).
I never thought Malaysia would be an issue other than some questioning by the El Al and Israeli border control, until the Chelsea incident this week made Israel-Malaysia relations somewhat tenser than usual, as I've heard. I doubt that in my case the "formal" letter would make any difference: the automated email has our name and personal itinerary printed on it, so if that doesn't get me through, I doubt any other paperwork from WMIL will... On 30 July 2011 02:29, Harel Cain <[email protected]> wrote: > Unless you come from a potentially problematic country (for example one > which doesn't have diplomatic relations with Israel, or just one which is > rather exotic for incoming tourism), the printout of the automated mail you > got from us should be fine, and even that shouldn't be necessary. It's just > something you can show during the security questioning, which normally > occurs only on El Al flights. > > We prepared personalized "formal" letters of invitation upon request for > quite a few people. However I'm rather disinclined to prepare more and more > of them. If you are from the USA or the EU or other Western countries I > really think they're not necessary. > > These things are really a matter of chance - I heard the one attendee from > Czech Republic had a few problems (everything is fine, nothing serious), > while the South Americans went through everything without any problem at > all. > > Please seriously consider if you really need them before asking for such > personalized letters (requests please send to one of the OTRS queues). > > > Harel Cain > Wikimania 2011 local team > > > > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 20:08, Deryck Chan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ...and how many copies of each! >> On Jul 30, 2011 1:07 AM, "Laura James" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi, thanks for the great advice - yes, please do let us know which >> document >> > would be the most helpful to print. And any other tips! :-) >> > Thank you, >> > Laura >> > >> > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Kim Bruning <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> >> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 07:49:31PM +0900, KIZU Naoko wrote: >> >> > Hi from Tel Aviv suburb. >> >> > >> >> > I strongly recommend to follow Manuel. Also the letter from the >> >> > organizing team may help. >> >> > >> >> > At security check in AMS I met difficulty , since then I left all the >> >> > copy of registration team and also had no copy. >> >> >> >> > document on my registration to the confenrence or a document from >> WMF. >> >> >> >> Hmm, good point, what document would be handiest to print out? (I'll >> check >> >> my mail) >> >> >> >> -- >> >> [Non-pgp mail clients may show pgp-signature as attachment] >> >> gpg (www.gnupg.org) Fingerprint for key FEF9DD72 >> >> 5ED6 E215 73EE AD84 E03A 01C5 94AC 7B0E FEF9 DD72 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> >> > > > -- > Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > >
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