Re: [73attendees] Is USA qualified for 2.3ofdraft-palet-ietf-meeting-venue-selection-criteria?

Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com> Tue, 18 November 2008 16:56 UTC

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On 18 nov 2008, at 10:26, Ted Lemon wrote:

> However unfortunately we have had increasing problems with the U.S.  
> government being skeptical about visa applicants - several good  
> friends of mine have been repeatedly denied entry to the U.S.  
> because the person responsible for admitting them decided that they  
> were at risk of overstaying their visa.   This is new, in the last  
> year, and is the case even though these same people have a track  
> record of /not/ overstaying their visas based on past visits.

Would it be helpful to collect information about these cases and then  
initiate some kind of communication from the IETF towards the US  
authorities?
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