Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf10 - call for Location proposals
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 08:18:04PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> I just don't expect many foreign people being approved for the
> visa. This worries me a lot.
http://travel.state.gov/pdf/CombinedRefusalRate.pdf has some actual
numbers for fiscal year 2006. Brazil's refusal rate is 13.2%, meaning
that 86.8% of Brazilian applications get visas. As a comparison,
according to
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/publications/temp-resident-visa.asp
Canada (a country where everyone seems fine with holding DebConf)
approves just over 80% of visas needed to visit Canada temporarily every
year since 1983. Many countries in which DDs live are similarly low or
even lower. Argentina's refusal rate is even lower (6.7%). Also read
the explanatory notes in that document; the numbers for the 27 Visa
Waiver Program countries don't take into account people who come without
applying for a visa, so they overestimate the percentage of people who
the US wants to keep out.
- Jimmy Kaplowitz
jimmy@debian.org
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