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posted by janrinok on Sunday July 29 2018, @06:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the wheres-your-ds-160 dept.

Daniel Stenberg, author of the ubiquitous URL fetcher cURL and the libcurl multiprotocol file transfer library, and recipient of the 2017 Polheim Prize, has been blocked again from attending a US-based conference. Daniel has written a post in his blog about his two-year odyssey through the byzantine US bureaucracy to try to get permission to attend a work-related conference in California. He has been in the US nine times previously but despite pages of paperwork, hundreds of dollars in fees, and personal visits to the embassy, no dice. As a result the conference will have to move outside the US and probably Canada too if it wants to stay open to the world's top talent.

Earlier on SN:
US Visa Applications May Soon Require Five Years of Social Media Info (2018)
Reducing Year 2038 Problems in curl (2018)
cURL turns Seventeen Today (2015)


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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday July 31 2018, @05:20AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 31 2018, @05:20AM (#715084) Journal

    With the amount of sods trying to enter US for whatever reason there's no wonder that government workers would become bored..

    If it's not important enough for them to care, it's certainly not important enough for me to support.