I'm sorry...but this one is a red flag.

Canadian passports are only issued to Canadian citizens, and Canadian
citizens do not require a visa to come to Canada, regardless of where in
the world they are when they start their trip.  They must enter Canada
using their Canadian passport for any related travel information (i.e.,
using the Canadian passport for airline information), at the time of
boarding and at the time of arrival in Canada.  If ViswaPrabha is a dual
citizen, then both passports should be carried at all times.

If he applied for a visa, he received horrible advice.  If he is a Canadian
citizen, he can probably still travel, and should contact the Ministry of
Immigration and Citizenship directly.

Risker/Anne



On 30 July 2017 at 22:51, Ranjith S <[email protected]> wrote:

> On a conversation with ViswaPrabha he confirmed that he got visa rejection
> from Canadian embessy so can't participate in this wikimania.
>
> He is holding a Canadian passport but got bad.
>
> Very sad to hear this.
>
> On 28-Jul-2017 3:50 AM, "Ellie Young" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> We have  a waitlist from the original pool of people who made it into
>> Phase 2 consideration by the Scholarship committee.   Those people were
>> notified that they might be offered a scholarship as late as mid-July.  We
>> have filled the people who couldn't attend for whatever reason after they
>> accepted  the scholarship offer with names from there.
>>
>> Ellie
>> WMF Event Manager
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 3:48 AM, Rehman Abubakr <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Excuse me for the blunt question. But are there any shortlisted
>>> candidates this time?
>>>
>>>
>>> A fellow Wikimedian asked me this, and I though I might as well ask the
>>> same on this thread.
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm sure there would be a lot of genuinely interested Wikimedians who
>>> would like to attend the conference, in lieu of the sheer number of
>>> rejected applicants. (with respect to the successful applicants who would
>>> not be able to make it, of course)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks and regards,
>>>
>>> User:Rehman <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman>
>>>
>>>
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