IMPORTANT, international participants and visa issues
de parte de
"Martina Pignatti M."
on 2013-08-06 15:41
Dear all,
our call for the ISF has been spread through the ICSSI and NCCI
newsletters too, and more internationals are registering. We are now at
23 international participants registered for ISF in Baghdad (plus 3
Iraqis who registered here by mistake) and 18 VERY INTERESTING PROPOSALS
for the Extended ISF. *You find all registrations in the attachment,*
please check who's there from your country. I'm not sending you personal
information of participants but email address is there, please do not
share this file with others.
Some of them will have problems in accessing Iraqi Embassies, since one
is not present in their country (e.g. Croatia, in Europe), or they
cannot reach it (e.g. people of Christian Peacemaker Team in KRG cannot
go back to their country to get the visa and would need to travel
directly from Sulaymanyia to Baghdad). For all these reasons, and to
avoid complicated and differentiated procedures, *it would be much
better for all participants to receive a visa letter from Iraqi
authorities, and get the visa at Baghdad airport.* We need to know from
the ISF Committee in Baghdad if this is possible for all internationals,
or if we should send you specific information on visa problems of each
participant.
We need to decide very soon if we should send an official invitation
letter to international registered participants (signed by an officially
registered Iraqi NGO) and tell them to apply for visa at the closest
Iraqi embassy, or not.
Thanks to our Iraqi friends for figuring this out, I know it's terribly
complicated to get a clear reply from Iraqi authorities!!!
Best
Martina