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

Arturo Servin <arturo.servin@gmail.com> Fri, 24 March 2017 19:06 UTC

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From: Arturo Servin <arturo.servin@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 19:05:47 +0000
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Subject: Re: [Mtgvenue] visa situation... worsens?
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"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> 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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