On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Mateus Nobre <[email protected]> wrote: > Last year I was selected to attend Wikimania 2011 at Haifa (the best moments > ever in my life, btw, would love to support Washington too, ops :D) and WMF > contacted me six months before. > In this ''six months before'' have one problem. > > In Brazil (not only, but in the most countries that need the visa) we take 3 > months to schedule (and get some free time - it's vacation in Brazil and the > people wanna travel) the visit to U.S. Embassy to require the visa. When we > requite the visa, we take more 3~~4 months to receive the answer of Embassy. > Over 6 months. And half per cent of the visas are denied. We could appeal, > and would take more two months. > > It would be the biggest problem ever in a Wikimania organization. And > happens in a really lot of countries which need a visa to enter in U.S.A. > > I suggest to announce to the people who live in that countries early. > Earliest as possible. Maybe 8 or 9 months before... Take a visa to US really > isn't easy. > > What do you think? > To clarify: you're talking about selecting scholarship recipients, right?
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