Re: [Mtgvenue] visa situation... worsens?

Huh. Maybe I should have acknowledged that up front.

/a

On 3/24/17 14:05, Arturo Servin wrote:
>
> "The number of people impacted by chronic, ongoing US
> visa process is 1 in ~40."
>
> Your sample is to small to give any relevant result.
>
> .as
>
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 at 12:43 Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com 
> <mailto:adam@nostrum.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 3/24/17 10:36, Deen, Glenn (NBCUniversal) wrote:
>     > 1. Other orgs such as maawg, ieee, W3C and I'm sure there are
>     many others I don't know that also hold meetings in the US and
>     have similar demographics to their attendees. The IEEE runs a lot
>     of meetings per year and must have also been discussing this topic.
>
>
>     The W3C WebPayments WG is presently holding a two-day face-to-face
>     interim meeting in Chicago, with approximately 40 people in
>     attendance.
>     According to the responsible W3C staff member, we had one person
>     who was
>     interested in attending but could not due to visa issues; however, in
>     that specific case, the problem in obtaining a visa was due solely to
>     timing rather than any recent US policy changes (i.e., the person
>     would
>     have had exactly the same problem one year ago).
>
>     Sample size of 40 is admittedly small; but based on this data set, the
>     number of participants affected by the recent policy US visa changes
>     resolves to 0%. The number of people impacted by chronic, ongoing US
>     visa process is 1 in ~40.
>
>     /a
>
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