<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div>I haven't heard anything regarding my visa either and worry it may get rejected or approved late but if it does get rejected I'd also be keen for something like Narine is suggesting.<div><br></div><div>In my case, I had to submit online but travel out of town for Biometrics.</div><div><br><div>Regards<br></div><div><div>Cherie</div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 2:31 AM Narine Khachatryan <<a href="mailto:ms.narine.khachatryan@gmail.com">ms.narine.khachatryan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Dear Maureen, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thank you for your email. I have really valued highly this ATLASIII opportunity, I am thankful for assistance from you, staff and Travel Support. No doubt, ATLASIII is supposed to be different from fellowship. (Yet, I didn't mean a fellowship). </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">As for the other applicants from Armenia, perhaps, I was the only one who filed application directly to Canadian Immigration Agency (according to NC advice), others submitted their applications locally in Armenia via Yerevan-based visa center. In their case the whole visa process and logic was different.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Anyway, this is not a correct issue to compare one applicant with the other. I am genuinely happy other people from Armenia
, Kristina, Katarina, Lianna will be participating and wish you and everyone fruitful and successful meetings in Montreal. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Best and warm regards, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Narine</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">p.s. If anything would change about substituting the ATLASIII scholarship (or any other scheme), please do tell me!<span style="font-family:Wingdings;font-size:11pt">J</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;font-size:11pt"></span> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 5:58 PM Maureen Hilyard <<a href="mailto:maureen.hilyard@gmail.com" target="_blank">maureen.hilyard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Dear Narine<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The ATLAS Fellowship is only for Montreal for which there is a customised programme that is completely different from that of the ICANN Fellowship programme which is run by ICANN. We have no say in their selection process. I wish we had more influence with ICANN Fellowships, but unfortunately not.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>I too am surprised that your application for a Canadian visa was rejected, even after a second attempt. Others from Armenia have been successful. I am sure that Travel Support followed through as much as they could. But it is still disappointing.</div><div><br></div><div>Maureen<br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 15 Oct 2019, 9:25 PM Narine Khachatryan, <<a href="mailto:ms.narine.khachatryan@gmail.com" target="_blank">ms.narine.khachatryan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">Dear all, dear Maureen </div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">My suggestion has been about giving people, who experienced difficulty in getting a visa, like me, an opportunity to be engaged in At-Large work. </div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Instead, I see my name has been removed yesterday from <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/ATLAS3/ATLAS+III+Funded+Travelers" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">ATLASIII funded travelers list</a>, as if I have not been granted the ATLASIII scholarship. <br></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">This is the first time in my life - the issue with visa, I have 27 visas in my passports, including 2 US visas, Great Britain, over 20 Schengen, I have traveled to Sweden a week ago and my Schengen visa has just expired the day before yesterday. So, I have no idea, why this happened this time. </div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">I propose once again, even if we have very few number of people with visa problems, to give them another opportunity, for instance, at the next ICANN meeting(s). </div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Thank you and best regards, </div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Narine </div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small"></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 9:25 AM Roberto Gaetano <<a href="mailto:roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Thanks Maureen, I have done that mistake myself.<br>
However, may I suggest that messages that refer to ATLAS III are marked “ATLAS III” in the subject line, and marked “NASIG” when they refer to NASIG?<br>
That would help avoiding mistakes.<br>
Cheers,<br>
Roberto<br>
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> While there are ATLAS participants attending the NASIG event it is important that they are kept separate.<br>
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> It is totally confusing for everyone if you are responding to an email that is not an official ATLAS III communication from At-Large staff (specifically Gisella).<br>
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