I am going to attend EclipseCon 2008! Well, probably…
My talk has been accepted by EclipseCon 2008. Although the travel has to be approved yet, it is very likely that I will be able to go Santa Clara again this year.
Actually, I attended EclipseCon in 2005 and talked in 2006. That of year 2007 was missed due to the busy status of my project. It was the EclipseCon that brought me the chance to meet all the people working around related things and finally lead to the acquisition of my committer status. So, I am really excited about attending EclipseCon again.
However, I am bored with all the troubles with US visa. The whole process of visa application is rather time consuming and iirational. The first time when I was applying a US visa four years ago, I got a multi entry one valid for one year. It allows me to present at several conferences in the US that year, and I was feeling so good with the US. When I had to renew my visa after that year, they kept me waiting for 3 months. Until one week before the conference, I could no longer wait and send emails, faxes to the consulate and finally get one - but only a single entry valid for three months. Why? Both due to the busy status of my project and the fact that I tried to avoid traveling into the US, I greatly reduced the number of times that I had to attend conferences in the US in the last two years. By the end of last year, there was one important meeting which I had to attend and I stated the whole process again. And this time, after keeping a good record of entering and leaving the US for more than 6 times, I am still kept waiting until I could not wait any more. Again, I get a visa for single entry, although I have submitted documents that I have several conferences to attend in the coming year. Well, if that is all the troubles I met, I would be much happier. The case is that, I was put into a special list of people that are required to go through a second interview, after arriving the Los Angeles airport. And, I have to report to the same office again when I leave the US one week later. The reason - “Tech Match” - what is that? Although I do believe that I am a good developer, but I never thought that I know some special techniques that will threaten the US or any countries. Because I am working on the Eclipse parallel tools platform and I am doing projects on Grid computing? But do those guys really know what they are? All these seem to me is that the US is not welcoming people from other countries as it was before. I really hope this will not happen again this time.
Posted January 21st, 2008 by Tianchao Li in category: Uncategorized
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