On 10/23/2012 12:39 PM, Dave Fisher wrote:
On Oct 22, 2012, at 7:50 PM, Peter Junge wrote:
On 10/23/2012 10:40 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote:
Sorry for top post but:
Are there not other Apache EU projects suffering the same effects?
Indeed, I also considered to sending this information to the ApacheCon list but
the only Chinese names I can discover on the schedule
(http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/) are affiliated with AOO. As well, I'm also
following the ApacheCon list and didn't notice the issue there, except Chinese
AOO committers asking for invitation letters.
Do the AOO committers require invitation letters from The Apache Software
Foundation, or the com-com committee?
As far as I know yes, there have been several requests for such letters
on the ApacheCon mailing list.
Do these letters need to be addressed to any particular insititution? Germany,
China, ... ?
This needs to be checked with the German embassy or the visa agent that
I have been linking yesterday.
However, I would guess that the persons are aware of the procedures. The
problem usually is that the German embassy issues visas very slowly.
Time is the limiting factor.
Peter
Regards,
Dave
Peter
Louis
On 22 October 2012 22:34, Peter Junge <peter.ju...@gmx.org> wrote:
Hi,
I have heard several Chinese speakers who want to present at the ApacheCon
EU 2012 are having problems with getting their visa in time.
Indeed, the recent situation was very bad because the German embassy doesn't
have the resources to handle the strong demand for German visas in China,
e.g. they have only two telephone lines to make appointments for submitting
visa applications.
Just last week the German embassy started to outsource the visa application
process to a private agency which will certainly make everything easier,
e.g. they are checking each application for completeness and correctness
while previously visa applications were declined deliberately without giving
any information about what went wrong.
The website of the visa agency can be found here:
https://cn.tlscontact.com/cnBJS2de/splash.php
The service is available in English, Chinese and German.
Additional information from the German embassy (in Chinese) can be found
here:
http://www.china.diplo.de/Vertretung/china/zh/01-service/visa/tls/0-s.html
Hope it's not to late.
Peter
