On Aug 16, 2018, at 07:49, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2018-08-16 13:22, Stig Venaas wrote: > ..... >> I did not quite trust the businessevents web site, so I tried to to >> look at the cited references, including the Ministry of Foreign >> affairs, and I could not find any place there where it says that a >> visa is not needed when attending a conference. The info I've seen >> from various Thai consulates' web sites all seem to indicate that a >> visa is required for attending a conference. Is there a more >> authoritative source than the businessevents site stating this? > > I hope it's clear why IASA does not, cannot and should not offer > any advice. Of course. > If a person born in country A but having a passport > from country B and resident in country C wants to attend a > conference in country D, travelling via country E, that person > (or their travel agent) needs to find out whether a visa is needed > in their particular case. All that I was asking that, maybe, we could be efficient about that. > As far as I can see, except for very clear > cases, that means contacting the relevant consulate (the one that > handles travellers from country C, but it might be located in yet > another country). The majority of the cases are those very clear cases. If we could collect relevant information in a ready-to-process form, we could be way more efficient than with everyone having to start from scratch. I apologize for asking for efficiency here; that may be a German thing. Grüße, Carsten
