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Participant
Requirements
Participants to the ITPA Meeting must make sure that
they perform the following actions (in chronological order).
- For those participants that need U.S. entry Visas,
submit U.S. Visa application immediately to
the U.S. Embassy or Consulate in your country. Note that due to
recent changes in the visa application procedures, the process
time for Visa application has increased significantly (further
details on visa application requirements can be obtained from the
following website: http://www.UnitedStatesVisas.gov).
Please contact your Topical Group (TG) leader (T. Hender) and local
organizing person (Ted Strait ) for invitation letters.
Citizens of certain countries (visa waiver
countries) do NOT need U.S. visas for entry.
These countries are: Andorra Iceland Norway Australia
Ireland Portugal Austria Italy San Marino Belgium Japan Singapore
Brunei Liechtenstein Slovenia Denmark Luxembourg Spain Finland
Monaco Sweden France the Netherlands Switzerland Germany New
Zealand United Kingdom (also, Canadian citizens do no need
visas).
For verification on visa waiver countries see the following site: http://travel.state.gov/vwp.html.
Citizens of these countries must make sure that they have machine readable
passports (see the same site for more details).
- Complete and submit the non-U.S.
Citizen form by April 19, 2007. Note
that submissions after this date can be accepted, but there is
no
guarantee that
approval for entry to GA will be completed before the meeting.
- Make reservations at hotel of
your choice.
- Complete and submit the registration
form by April 19, 2007.
- Complete and submit the cyber access
form by April 19, 2007. The completed form
should be printed out, signed and faxed to Kristi Keith at General
Atomics.
- Contact your TG leader to submit title of presentation, if any.
- Arrive at the GA visitor reception center by 8:00 A.M. of the
first morning of your ITPA meeting to pickup badge.
Note: It is extremely important that
all forms be filled out by the deadline dates.
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