[NCUC-DISCUSS] Travel slots available for Hyderabad meeting

[James Gannon]

Yes anyone applying for this needs to be very clear on the visa requirements (Not I am not applying for it so no conflict here) you need to have a conference visa which is a very specific visa type that has taken most people weeks if not months in many cases to organise.

Its fantastic that we have these slots available and its very important that we award them to people who are going to be able to utilise them and an important part of this is the visa situation.

-James

From: Ncuc-discuss <ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org<mailto:ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org>> on behalf of Ayden Férdeline <icann at ferdeline.com<mailto:icann at ferdeline.com>>
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Date: Wednesday 19 October 2016 at 11:49
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Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Travel slots available for Hyderabad meeting

Hi Kawesha,

It might be worth taking a look at this guide to obtaining a visa for India which ICANN staff have produced: https://meetings.icann.org/en/hyderabad57/visa-application-guide-india. Note that it says to apply for the conference visa, and not a business or tourist e-visa. I submitted my application for a conference visa quite a few weeks ago, and the High Commission of India in London is still in possession of my passport. It would seem that not all Indian missions operate at the same speed. Good luck!

Ayden


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Okay Grace. The information I had gotten from this site https://www.indiavisacorp.com/apply-visa?action=step1I am even a click away for payment of the visa.

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On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga at hotmail.com<mailto:ggithaiga at hotmail.com>> wrote:

Kawesha

You need to check again for your information sources cause that is not the information that I have. The letter from Joseph is not sufficient. You will need to local invite. And with that and because they have issued a couple of visas for those attending ICANN meetings, it will take three days to get.


Rgds

Grace


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From: Ncuc-discuss <ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org<mailto:ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org>> on behalf of KASWESHA <kaswesha at gmail.com<mailto:kaswesha at gmail.com>>
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Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Travel slots available for Hyderabad meeting

I already have the invitation letter signed by Joseph De Jesus. In Kenya there is no much restriction for people traveling to India there is even the option of visa on arrival at Airport. .


James Njoroge


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On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak at gmail.com<mailto:rafik.dammak at gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi,

yes it seems that conference visa is required, in particular for ICANN support travel. I am checking with ICANN staff and that is their understanding, waiting for ICANN travel constituency confirmation.

Best Regards,

Rafik

2016-10-19 17:02 GMT+09:00 James Gannon <james at cyberinvasion.net<mailto:james at cyberinvasion.net>>:

Please remember that a conference visa is required which definitely cannot be done in 48hrs.



-James


On 19/10/2016, 08:53, "Ncuc-discuss on behalf of Eric S Johnson" <ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org<mailto:ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org> on behalf of crates at oneotaslopes.org<mailto:crates at oneotaslopes.org>> wrote:

>> > Two ICANN travel slots for Hyderabad have become available just now.
>> > Since it is very late, we can only ask those who have visas for India
>> > or are locals to apply for the travel slots.
>>
>> In some countries Indian visas can be had pretty fast.
>> When I applied in Indian embassy in Helsinki I got reply next day saying it'd
>> been approved (even though they wouldn't issue it immediately because its
>> validity will begin from the time it's written - I'd applied too early!).
>> So I'd suggest considering also non-locals with the caveat that if they don't
>> get the visa quickly the slot will be reassigned.
>
>I was in IN twice in the last month, and both times, I applied for a visa online (the "tourist e-visa") and both times it was granted within 48 h, and both times I then visited IN without incident. I'm an Amcit.
>
>Best,
>Eric
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