[Conference-attendees] Important Visa Notice for the PostgreSQL Anniversary

[Josh Berkus]

Attendees,

In addition to Andrew's statement of yesterday:

IF YOU ARE CHANGING PLANES IN A UNITED STATES AIRPORT
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It may be important for you to know that if you change planes in the United 
States, you may need a US visa to do so.

Starting in August of 2003, the US government cancelled its 50-year-old policy 
of allowing people to change planes in US international airports without 
harassment:
http://travel.state.gov/visa/visa_1248.html

This means that if you would normally need a visa to travel to the United 
States, you will need a visa to travel through the US as well.  If you needed 
a visa to go to Canada, this applies to you.

You should be able to use a copy of your Letter of Invitation to the 
conference (you did keep a copy, yes?) and your Canadian Visa to obtain your 
US Transit Visa.

Note that citizens of the 27 countries covered by the Visa Waiver Program, as 
well as Canada and Mexico are not required to obtain visas:
http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/without/without_1990.html

If you are not changing planes in the US, you may ignore all of this.

Apologies for the somewhat late notice, but I just became aware of this 
policy.

-- 
Josh Berkus