Re: Planned changes to registration payments & deadlines

[Dhruv Dhody <[e-mail]>]

Hi Andrew,

This sounds reasonable! Thanks for taking it under consideration already!

Regards,
Dhruv

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 8:00 PM, Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the comments.
>
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 06:23:54PM +0530, Dhruv Dhody wrote:
> > I hope the Invitation Letters for the Visa can be offered before
> Registration/
> > Payment in this case, so that one can make the payment when the visa
> comes
> > through.
>
> The plan is that those who have previously attended (in person) an
> IETF meeting (going back some time -- I _believe_ the records are
> since IETF 72, but it's 'round about there anyway) will be eligible
> for a Letter of Invitation (LOI) without registering for the meeting.
> A new attendee, however, will need to register (and therefore pay)
> when requesting the LOI.  This is to combat the potential to give LOIs
> to people who do not intend to come to the meeting but who want to
> commit visa/immigration fraud.
>
> > An additional (anecdotal) input - in some organization the
> > registration fees is payed by the attendee and it gets reimbursed
> > after the completion of travel, so that would be a bit of burden
> > across credit card payment cycles for 7 weeks.
>
> We are aware that some people could be affected this way, yes.
> Individuals will need to determine whether it is better for them in
> that case to pay the earlier fee and carry the balance for a credit
> card cycle, or whether it is better for them to pay the higher fee
> later and get reimbursement from their organization for that.
>
> Best regards,
>
> A
>
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> Andrew Sullivan
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