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Re: [ericas] Stuck getting visas for IETF meetings

Nicolas Ruiz <nicolas@internettraffic.com> Thu, 02 May 2013 14:02 UTC

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On 05/02/2013 07:02 AM, Fernando Gont wrote:
> On 04/30/2013 06:28 AM, Carsten Bormann wrote:
>>
>> There is not much we can do about the visa complexity at the IETF level.
>> But we can do two things:
>>
>> -- collect information about relative levels of complexities exhibited
>>     by different venues.  Right now I would guess (but don't know) that
>>     it is easier for many to go to Canada than to the US.
>
> That's mostly a myth, I would say. In the same way that quite a few
> times the folks at the Canadian border have been much less polite (if
> you know what I mean) than at the US border.

I don't think is a myth. In my experience it's more difficult to be 
granted a visa to visit the US than western Europe.

nicolas

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