> Od: Florian Nadge <fnadge gmail com>
> We had this discussion in this list and with Karen. She knows about theI had a quick chat with German Poo who is in the Foundation Travel
> status of these letters. From hard learned experience. I can say that these
> letters give the wrong impression that we can help with the process when we
> can not. People are quite upset if they are turned down. I would rather
> have a short text giving the link Robert mentioned previously.
Committee and is generally knowledgeable about these things.
He says the we can't, of course, send formal letters, which, as I
understood, are the ones that basically guarantee that you get a visa
unless you have a criminal record or something. The inviting person in
that case basically takes all the legal responsibility for the invitee
in that case.
That's not what we do.
What we can do is send a letter that will help people prove that they
are coming for a conference and we know them basically. It help to
prove, but they can still be turned down of course.
So, seems to me that all your gripes, Florian, are that the current
wording on the website suggests we can send out the former rather than
the latter kind of invites? That's pretty easy to change.
But I do want to do this anyway. German says that they've always
managed to do it and it does help in some cases though possibly not
all.
Rui