I hope so, Beria. Really I'm more worried with the disappointment that the 
recipcient who couldn't get the visa would stay.

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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 20:48:57 +0000
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2012: The Visas Issue

Any visa can be denied, Mateus. And there are a waiting list for Wikimania 
scholarship. You don't need to worry, no scholarship will be wasted._____
Béria Lima

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On 1 November 2011 20:44, Mateus Nobre <[email protected]> wrote:






Yeah Thomas, I forgot that.
It's prundet give the scolarschips to whom already have the visas. Two months 
would be impossible normally (at least for Brazil, idk for other countried 
visa-needed). We could request special priority, but it's risky and always can 
be denied.


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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 23:41:09 +0300
Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2012: The Visas Issue








Yeah, but not all brazilians editors follow these lists.

A good idea too give priority to whom already have the visa. This could avoid 
problems to Wikimania staff. 



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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 20:36:20 +0000
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]

Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2012: The Visas Issue

[email protected] is there for this.


We also have [email protected] , [email protected] and 
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Esplanada (if you can't follow any 
of those list and is brasilian I don't know what else they can be ;) )

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Béria Lima
(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.





On 1 November 2011 20:29, Mateus Nobre <[email protected]> wrote:







For me it's easy. But it could catch someone by surprise and this someone may 
not have the visa. And take a U.S. visa in six months in some countries is 
really hard....




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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 20:26:02 +0000
From: [email protected]


To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2012: The Visas Issue

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.


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Béria Lima
(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.






On 1 November 2011 20:20, Mateus Nobre <[email protected]> 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?

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