Jimmy Kaplowitz dijo [Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 07:42:28PM -0400]: > 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.
Remember that it is just a percentage, not the total number. Very (VERY) few people need visa to enter Argentina, and out of them according to your numbers, only 6.7% are rejected - Right, because Argentina does not currently attract so much migration, has a weaker economy and all. Canada requires visa for much fewer countries than the USA (at least I know they don't require visas for Mexico). I expect the Canadian rejections to have better fundaments than the USA rejections. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
