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Re: Planned changes to registration payments & deadlines

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Tue, 24 April 2018 15:29 UTC

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Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:
    > 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.

Which is apparently not a theoretical thing -- it has occured.
And when it occurs, it puts all our LOIs into question.



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