One way that works for us in Trinidad and Tobago is to fedex hte passport to the Embassy or consulate in the nearest country and they will do the visa and send back the passport via fedEx. We do this via Venezuela or the US often for visas for countries that have no representation in T&T. On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:57 AM, Yaovi Atohoun <yaovito@yahoo.fr> wrote:
Dear all,
With my personal experience, I would not recommend boarding on a flight to Columbia expecting to get a visa on arrival. If there is a country where people can board on a direct flight to Cartagena that is fine but I don't think that it applies for most of the african delegates. Two years ago, an European company delayed my boarding of 24 hours from Benin Republic to Morroco even I had all documents showing that I will get my visa on arrival. Boarding on a flight from Europe or the US is not evident without a visa for the final destination.
It is like we have two options:
1) ICANN will facilitate a trip to the closest country (Egypt, Kenya, South Africa) in Africa to get the visa for Columbia prior the departure from the country of residence 2) I assume that mots of the itinerary will transit by Europe or the United States. ICANN can send the names and and support letter of delegates to the Columbia Consulates in that European/US states of transit. The delegate will get the visa there and continue to Columbia. For the ICANN meeting in Mexico, I transited by New-York to get my Mexico visa there. Again, it is because I already had a US visa and I had many emails exchange, fax and phone conversations with the Mexico embassasy in New York and get the agreement before the trip. The candidate will have to spend probably one or two day in this european country and this option may be less expensive.
In conclusion I just add my voice to my colleagues to say that the visa information process should start as soon as possible.
Thanks Yaovi
________________________________ De : NURSES ACROSS THE BORDERS <nursesacrosstheborders@yahoo.com> À : "langdonorr@gmail.com" <langdonorr@gmail.com>; Tijani BEN JEMAA <tijani.benjemaa@fmai.org>; ICANN Constituency Travel <constituency-travel@icann.org>; Heidi Ullrich <Heidi.Ullrich@icann.org> Cc : "afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org" <afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org>; ICANN At-Large Staff <staff@atlarge.icann.org> Envoyé le : Mar 7 septembre 2010, 0h 29min 31s Objet : Re: [AFRI-Discuss] 04 - RE: Visa to Colombia
Thanks Heidi, In addition to Mr. Tijani's concerns expressed by members during the teleconference with regards to TRANSIT.
One countries where DIRECT FLIGHTS are possible from host countries do not need transit visas. Secondly, there are a lot of foreign airlines that take passnegers to other countries other their own (airline's countries) and do not require TRANSIT visas to take passengers via their own country to these countries. For example, if I were to fly to China with Emmirates, I do not need a transit visa to United Arab Emmirates to be taken to China-supposing China were to give me an entry visa at their Port of Entry, as slong as there is an official document from the Columbia Forign Affairs Ministry.
The time to start this preparation is NOW.
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From: Heidi Ullrich <Heidi.Ullrich@icann.org> Subject: 04 - RE: [AFRI-Discuss] Visa to Colombia To: "NURSES ACROSS THE BORDERS" <nursesacrosstheborders@yahoo.com>, "langdonorr@gmail.com" <langdonorr@gmail.com>, "Tijani BEN JEMAA" <tijani.benjemaa@fmai.org>, "ICANN Constituency Travel" <constituency-travel@icann.org> Cc: "afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org" <afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org>, "ICANN At-Large Staff" <staff@atlarge.icann.org> Date: Sunday, 5 September, 2010, 18:27
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