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WISE 2002
will be held at IESE Business School
in Barcelona, Note that the ICIS
conference will be held in the Hotel Princesa Sofia Inter-Continental
(4 stars), following the conclusion of WISE.
Workshop
Location info ..additional
hotel info
Travel
requirements are rapidly evolving. Potential participants, especially
non-US students, should contact the international office at their universities
for the most up-to-date information.
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Document
updated: July 10, 2002,
travel
notice history
Visa information for WISE 2002 participants traveling from the United
States:
This
document is intended to provide guidance for those residents of the United
States who wish to travel to Barcelona to participate in the 2002 Workshop
on Information Systems and Economics that is taking place December 14-15.
Due to recent changes in US immigration regulations (related to terrorist
events), travel to and from the United States and Europe has become significantly
more complicated.
- If you
hold a United States or European Union passport or are a permanent
resident of the USA, you should have no difficulty in traveling
to and from Barcelona.
- If you
are currently in the USA as a non-immigrant and have a valid
visa stamp in your (F1, H1, J1) passport that allows multiple
entries into the United States and will remain valid until after the
conference, you should be able to return to the U.S. from Barcelona
without difficulty. Please contact your Spanish Consulate (links to
consulates are at the Spanish
Embassy web site at www.spainemb.org/ingles/indexing.htm)
to find out if you need to obtain a visa to enter Spain (visit Barcelona).
The rest of this document applies only to U.S. residents who hold an expired
visa or a one-entry visa.
- If you
hold a visa that has expired or allowed you only one entry to
the United States, you will face significant difficulty in
returning the U.S. after the conference. Consequently, we recommend
that you do not attend WISE 2002. However, if you hold a student visa
and would like to attend anyway, we can provide the following guidance
to try to facilitate your return to the U.S.
- For holders
of expired or one-entry student visas, the U.S. consulate
in Barcelona, www.embusa.es/barcelonaen.html, can agree ahead of time
to review your application for a new visa to return to the U.S. For
those applications that the U.S. consulate in Barcelona agrees to review,
the process is taking twenty working days or more to issue return
visas to the U.S. (and there is a probability that they will
deny re-entry to the U.S.) Note that the twenty-day review period begins
after arrival in Barcelona. If you wish to have an application
for re-entry considered, please make arrangements with Geoffrey Parker
by October 31. Parker will forward all of these requests to
the U.S. consul in Barcelona at the same time. Each student should provide
a letter from their advisor stating that the advisor recommends that
the student attend WISE 2002 and when the student plans to complete
his/her PhD. Further, we will need documentation of current student
status (a current transcript will suffice).
- Prior
to a student’s departure, Parker will notify the student
whether or not the consulate has agreed to review the return visa application.
Before departing the U.S., students should have the following documents
in their possession:
- An
endorsed I-20 or IAP-66 from your international student adviser
- A
current transcript indicating full-time enrollment (student status)
- Letter
from advisor recommending participation in WISE 2002
- Letter
from advisor indicating future enrollment in the PhD program
- Letter
from advisor promising financial support (or bank statements indicating
adequate resources)
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