<font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">Dear Sala</font><div><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">For an event as significant as the IGF, it could work on a different level altogether. MAG / IGF Secreatriat, while finalizing the host country, could include in its criteria, a clause that the host country should designate at least two officers of a sufficient rank within the the ministry that oversees immigration to coordinate IGF visa arrangements on a "single window".</font></div>
<div><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">The designated officers may not have to deal with individual email requests direct from participants, but could be asked to be responsive to collective requests from the IGC, from ICC, from ISOC, from a member of the MAG, from ICANN and of course from the IGF Secretariat, who could collectively forward a list of participants applyiing for visa. The Host country could go by the travel history submitted and the recommendation of these organizations to process them right there at the Minsitry of Immigration, rather than ask them to travel to the embassy office in their respective countries. MAG / UN Secretariat could stipulate / recommend such a gesture by the Host Country.</font></div>
<div><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">( If NIC, Costa Rica hasn't made this special arrangment I would have had to travel 2000 kilometers to Delhi and would have had to set aside at least four days if I travelled by air. In many cases participants spend as much time and travel as far to obtain their visas )</font></div>
<div><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">Sivasubramanian M</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com">salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div>Siva raises an important point. The excellent work done by Grace Githaiga in acting as a liaison for the IGC and Department of Immigration in Nairobi helped tremendously. It would be great if the Secretariat and Hosts worked together to facilitate visa coordination with ease so that people who have to fly out to other countries to collect a visa and cannot afford to send their passports in the mail are catered for.<div>
<br></div><div>It is certainly easier to collect it on arrival, I think and if temporary visas can be granted, even better. I remember when the IGF was hosted by Lithuania, I had to pick up my visa in Tokyo, Japan, fortunately I could pick my Schengen visa, I had from Fiji.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I suppose ICANN Travel have vast experience from organising travel fori 3 ICANN meetings per annum, and have achieved a level of "administrative efficiency" but yes there should be a workable model for the IGF Visa coordination that should be done many months before.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Kind Regards,</div><div>Sala<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Imran Ahmed Shah <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ias_pk@yahoo.com" target="_blank">ias_pk@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I also support this proposal<br>
+1.<br>
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Thanks<br>
Imran------------------------------On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 11:33 PM PKT Sivasubramanian M wrote:>Hello,>>Costa Rica is hosting the 43rd ICANN meeting.>>On February 4 ICANN Constituency Travel sent an email message to all>participants seeking visa on arrival and asked us to send a copy of the>ticket and passport to Sylvia Moya of NIC, Costa Rica. Three weeks later>there is a copy of a resolution by Dirección Genero! de Migracion y> Extranjeria, Servirzicza, Justicia: y Transparencia. This resolution is>addressed to the Juan Santa Maria International Airport and contains a list>of 24 names of participants who have been granted a visa for 30 days.>>I hope that the IGF Host Countries could designate someone like Sylvia Moya>and pay special attention to the visa issues of the participants.>>( Costa Rica has declared the ICANN meeting one of "National Interest".><a href="http://www.insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2012/january/26/costarica12012609.htm" target="_blank">http://www.insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2012/january/26/costarica12012609.htm</a>> )>>Sivasubramanian<br>
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