Hi,
This page has some information:
http://sindhus.bitbucket.org/docs/gnome-visa/booking-cancellation.html
People should try to get their tickets blocked, not booked, if that is ok with the
embassy. Also, it might be possible to cancel tickets for a small fee if the visa is
rejected, e.g. on Lufthansa.
You might also like to take a look at GNOME's invitation letter samples at
https://wiki.gnome.org/Travel/Invitations - I assembled these after reviewing several
examples.
Thanks,
Marina
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ruth Suehle" <rsuehle(a)gmail.com>
To: "Planning discussion for Flock (Fedora Contributor Conference)"
<flock-planning(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 11:20:54 AM
Subject: Visa problems
Hi, all. It's too late to solve this for this year, but I'm hoping to crowdsource
some answers for next year.
We have booked flights for people based on the itineraries they requested, in some cases
on the assumption that they knew better than we did how best to get to Prague from their
own countries and deal with getting visas.
Because some countries require you to (or at least strongly suggest that you do) have a
flight before you request a visa, we are now quite over budget for travel due to denied
and delayed visas requiring us to rebook flights on different itineraries. It's not
only India, although because we have many contributors who want to attend Flock from
India, it's the primary problem country in this situation.
As those of us doing the flight bookings are American and rarely need visas where we
travel, this is unfamiliar territory. Can those of you who deal with visa problems make
any suggestions about how to avoid this next year? Or is it simply unavoidable, and we
need to budget in the equivalent of several extra people's flights for these
rebookings?
Thanks!
Ruth
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