Moray Allan wrote: > This certainly won't put *me* off going to Bosnia (and my own government > seems less negative about the country), but given the number of > Developers in the US it seems worth the DebConf team being aware of the > Warning. I have a personal issue which should come up sooner or later. After checking quickly if Mexican citizens were required to get a visa to enter Bosnia, I took a deeply look into it. I usually check for information and advices on this matter on the website of the Mexican foreign affairs secretary when travelling. According to the site (and then confirmed on the consulate information available from the Bosnian government), I do need for a visa. Since there is no Bosnian embassy in Mexico (there is no Mexican embassy in Bosnia, neither), apparently I have to travel to the nearest Bosnian consulate which is located, in my case, in the US. This took me by surprise and I'm now concerned on Latin people who probably would like to attend DC7, if it happened to be in Bosnia. Apparently, as Mexican citizen, I have to travel to one of the Bosnian consulates on the US (located in Washington, Chicago and NYC, all of them in northern US) to a personal interview, according to the Mexican government information, which is the *only* way to get the visa. This made me look for more information on Latin people, specially since my girlfriend, who would be attending also, is Venezuelan. I found that there's also an embassy in Argentina, but any of those are difficult or expensive ways to get the Bosnian visa for me or people from north South America: Specially also, since flying to the US to get the visa would take up time and stuff to get the American visa for most of the people who don't have it (which personally is not my case, but my gf doesn't have it, i.e.), and flying to Buenos Aires would be extremely expensive. So, I'd really like to know how people from Latam *really* could do these processes. I don't want to think that, since we had DC6 here, now it's our turn to not assist to DC7, or not be supported on some way, or similar. The Mexican government also states that people travelling to Bosnia should be aware of safety issues. http://www.mvp.gov.ba/index_eng.htm http://www.sre.gob.mx/delviajero/europa/ser.htm [spanish] http://www.embajadabh.org.ar/ -- David Moreno Garza <damog@damog.net> | http://www.damog.net/ <damog@debian.org> | GPG: C671257D Your kisses are wasted on me.
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