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Adi Shamir visa snub: the S in RSA blocked from his own RSA conf

theregister.co.uk

50 pointssampo12 comments

Just do what a lot of other conferences are doing, hold it in Canada and save the hassle.

Yes, come to Canada!

Shamir, of RSA and the 'Shamir Secret Sharing' fame!

Not the first time he's been unable to get a Visa in time for a big conference: https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2013/10/shamir/

I'm an american, I'm very sad how we've made it harder and harder for people to come visit us. We lose so much potential intellectual and other gains by doing this. International conferences should just go to Canada in preference to rotating to the us. It would be fairly easy for americans to go there and I assume others can avoid silly visa problems (Canada is better, right?)

Its not just conferences you know... I heard from several colleagues that it keeps getting harder to find someone willing to make business trips to the US (something 10 years ago no one would have thought twice about). Some small business owners I know are reconsidering targeting the American market in the future (again something 10 years ago no one would have even given one thought about)...

i don’t really understand how this whole us visa process works: my girlfirend was denied a visa, re-applied after two days and got it. this is also when i found out certain forms have extra pages full of required details that only apply to females, not males.

the whole process seems extremely random

Wasn't our government shut down when he applied? Pretty sure that would in fact leave him in limbo... As it did for many other things :-/

I don't think government shutdown affects VISA processing. What I've heard is that VISA processing is funded by the application cost itself.

VISA is the brand of a credit card company. A visa is a permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited (from Latin "charta visa", a piece of paper which has been seen).

Is this comment really helpful to the conversation?

Apparently not; some people are glad to correct their mistaken beliefs about orthography, and others are not. In this forum many people are in the former category, but apparently not you. That's fine, but I couldn't know until you replied.

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