Well, besides the tangents this conversation went into, did anyone reach for the UK government to get their official position? Some people are waiting on that to decide whether or not to apply for scholarships...
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Ellie Young <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ellie Young > [email protected] > > > > On Jan 19, 2014, at 8:49 AM, Tobias <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On 01/13/2014 02:13 AM, Ellie Young wrote: > >> And while we are on this subject, I want to reiterate that we expect > >> individuals to cover their own visa expenses as well as contacting the > >> British Consulate on their own or through a visa service in their home > >> country. The UK accepts applications for visas 90 days prior to the > >> expected date of entering the UK (applying before doesn't do any good.) > > > > Incidentally, why do Wikimedia scholarships not cover or at least assist > > with the expenses of getting a visa? > > We in fact do handle requests for financial assistance for VISA > application fees on a case by case basis. We are still expecitng people to > cover, but if circumstances are so dire financially we will assist. > > > > It seems that the people affected by this are (on average) the ones who > > need the support of a scholarship the most in order to be able to attend > > Wikimania. If the UK is discriminating against our contributors' > > nationalities, we might not be able to do much about it (although we > > definitely should try to). But at the very least we can help with the > > financial discrepancy. > > > > -- Tobias > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > -- Best Regards, Muhammad Yahia
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