On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 07:26:10PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > One source of confusion in Mexico was that people said at the Mexican > embassy they were travelling "for a conference". Stupid as it might > sound, that meant they were coming "on business", and it was a PITA to > convince the Foreign Relations people that we were _NOT_ for profit, > and neither were any of you. Jimmy, I advise you to triple-check if > that it is the best way to help the visa process, or whether we should > all apply as "tourists-and-nothing-else". After all, quite a bit of > people go as tourists to NY, so nothing fishy there.
The relevant US government websites also make it seem like a business visa is correct in this case, and based on US university websites that seems also applicable to academics visiting the US for academic conferences, not just for-profit ones. Regardless, I agree about the triple-checking. We've already received an offer of assistance from a properly licensed lawyer who lives in NYC and has dealt with visa applications before. We're definitely going to pay attention to getting these details right. - Jimmy Kaplowitz ji...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org