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Daniel Stenberg, Author of cURL and libcurl, Denied US Visit Again

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

canopic jug writes:

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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Original Submission

• TrapsTraps (Score: 5, Informative) by Whoever on Sunday July 29 2018, @11:54PM (1 child)

  by Whoever (4524) on Sunday July 29 2018, @11:54PM (#714517) Journal

  Among other things it requires me to provide info about all trips abroad (with dates and duration) I've done over the last 15 years.

  This is simply a trap. The USA knows where you have traveled and when, better than you do. What they are doing is looking for an opportunity to deny you entry (now or in the future) because you lied in an application.

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• Re:Traps(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @01:43AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @01:43AM (#714564)

  Came here looking for this [encyclopediadramatica.rs]. Left disappointed.

  -1 star, would not fap again.

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