On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Holger Levsen <
holger@layer-acht.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Dienstag, 8. März 2011, Amar Cosic wrote:
>> No one can "just enter" any country. If law requires papers/visas/letters
>> for residents of some countries than that will 100% be case.
>
> Yup!
>
>> I think we
>> rely too much on some phone call, "intervention" of someone etc.. which
>> could go in wrong direction for some people..
>> We could have list of ppl that require visa and we could (month at least
>> before Debconf) arrange signature on that list of minister(s), president(s)
>> that they are allowed to enter country.
>
> A month might be too late already. We should aim for 2 at least!
>
> For DebConf6 (I think, doesnt really matter which..) we had the case where
> someone from somewhere in Asia, might have been India, had a Visa for Mexico,
> had flight tickets from $home to Mexico and back and then was denied a
> transit visa for the UK aka Heithrow airport. That person didnt make it :(
>
> Point of the story: it's not only about Visas to Bosnia & Herzegovina, but
> also "other stuff" (I'm sure there's more than transit visas here too), why
> it's helpful to send visas / visa invitation letters as early as possible.
>
>
> cheers,
> Holger
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