Ellie Young [email protected]
On Jan 19, 2014, at 8:49 AM, Tobias <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/13/2014 02:13 AM, Ellie Young wrote: >> And while we are on this subject, I want to reiterate that we expect >> individuals to cover their own visa expenses as well as contacting the >> British Consulate on their own or through a visa service in their home >> country. The UK accepts applications for visas 90 days prior to the >> expected date of entering the UK (applying before doesn't do any good.) > > Incidentally, why do Wikimedia scholarships not cover or at least assist > with the expenses of getting a visa? We in fact do handle requests for financial assistance for VISA application fees on a case by case basis. We are still expecitng people to cover, but if circumstances are so dire financially we will assist. > It seems that the people affected by this are (on average) the ones who > need the support of a scholarship the most in order to be able to attend > Wikimania. If the UK is discriminating against our contributors' > nationalities, we might not be able to do much about it (although we > definitely should try to). But at the very least we can help with the > financial discrepancy. > > -- Tobias > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
