How that can be possible if the answers to scholarship applications are made in January - March? I would suggest to - If you applied for the scholarship - send a mail to the USA embassy scheduling the request for visa. If takes at least 3 months, will be done only in Feb (if you request now - December is a dead month in Brazil) and by them, you will have a result for your application. _____ *Béria Lima* <http://wikimedia.pt/>(351) 925 171 484
*Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos>.* On 1 November 2011 20:20, Mateus Nobre <mateus.no...@live.co.uk> wrote: > http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/without/without_1990.html#countries > > Hello everyone, > > As you know in 2012, United States will held Wikimania at Washington D.C.! > Yeah. > > But make a Wikimania in U.S.A. have some problems, you probably know it > but I wanna clarify to you. > > U.S. just dispense visas to thirty-six nations. All of the dozens left > over need a visa to enter in. > > 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? > > _____________________ > MateusNobre > *Wikimedia Brasil - MetalBrasil on Wikimedia projects > (+55) 85 88393509 > 30440865 > * > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > >
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