Cullen Jennings wrote: > Wow, I find this whole email thread shocking. > > Given the text explanation you get of F and L visa from the embassy > web site, which Mary quoted below, I have a very hard time seeing how > anyone comes to the conclusion that L (tourist) visa is the right > visa for an IETF meeting. ... particularly when the consulate requests even less information than is usually requested to get a visa to enter other countries. For example, in order to get a USA or Canadian or Australian visa I have had to provide a LOI, property title, an extract (log?) of my bank account, etc. Regarding the LOI itself, they usually accept LOIs in electronic form... so I guess this is probably the case for the Chinese visa, too. Thanks, -- Fernando Gont e-mail: fernando@xxxxxxxxxxx || fgont@xxxxxxx PGP Fingerprint: 7809 84F5 322E 45C7 F1C9 3945 96EE A9EF D076 FFF1 _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf