Hi Jay,
At 02:15 AM 02-10-2024, Jay Daley wrote:
Staff receive many complaints and concerns about visa issues,
primarily for the North American venues. For IETF 120 Vancouver we
had ~40 participants who were unable to get visas in time to
participate onsite. The visas were not denied but the applications
were just not processed. This was discussed on this thread.
The concern in the earlier days was U.S. venues. There was a move to
Canadian venues to alleviate ietf@ complaints. As a general rule,
asking a country to change its domestic policies is not an
option. Not going to U.S. or Canadian venues is an option; it would
require a change in policy to do that. Another option is to figure
out what may be causing the processing delay. I will refrain from
asking the LLC to look into any of these options as I am not an affected party.
Your information, wherever it came from (we do not routinely make
these details public), has not been presented accurately. We are
obliged under US law to check the name of everyone who registers for
a meeting with a number of US government databases and if one of
those names is a match we are then obliged to check the identity of
that person to determined if they are the sanctioned individual. We
regularly get name matches but never an identity match. We
occasionally get people who do not respond to the identity
verification requests and so do not process their registration. We
are currently conducting identity checks on four name matches for
IETF 121 Dublin.
I initially misread the above. After a few hours, I figured out that
there may be some miscommunication (most likely from my side).
I read the email from Adrian. I would like to thank him for
reminding me of the privacy policy. A person going through the
"terms and conditions", the privacy policy and "Note Well" would not
be informed that his/her name would have to go through some database matching.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
