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Re: [ericas] Stuck getting visas for IETF meetings

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Thu, 02 May 2013 14:15 UTC

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On 05/02/2013 11:02 AM, Nicolas Ruiz wrote:
> 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.

Wasn't the discussion about "US vs Canada"?


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