Sorry for the errors, I'm writing fast. I'm already prevented, the problem is the people who doesn't have the visa yet.
_____________________ MateusNobre MetalBrasil on Wikimedia projects (+55) 85 88393509 30440865 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 22:55:41 +0100 From: sterke...@gmail.com To: wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2012: The Visas Issue Ehm... scholarship and suprise? You should be able to check if its possble to get a visa before you apply? The same goes for taking vacation.... 2011/11/1 Mateus Nobre <mateus.no...@live.co.uk> 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.... _____________________ MateusNobre MetalBrasil on Wikimedia projects (+55) 85 88393509 30440865 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 20:26:02 +0000 From: berial...@gmail.com To: wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org 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. _____ 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 <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 _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l -- Kind regards, Huib Laurens WickedWay.nl Webhosting the wicked way. _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
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