[An-lang] COOL

[John Bowden]

I'm posting this on behalf of Miriam Meyerhoff who's away from her usual
email account at the moment.
John

Further to recent discussion on this:
even if you are proposing to enter the US from a "visa waiver" country, you
MUST
have
a machine-readable passport.
New Zealand, and I expect Australia, have had machine-readable passports for
ages,
but some of the other countries on the visa waiver list (esp. European) do
not.
If you try
and come without a machine readable p'port, they will not even let you
check-in.
If you
are at all in doubt, your should ring your own passport office/embassy and
find
out if
(and when) they introduced machine readable p'ports.
There is a rumour going round some circles that you need a p'port with your
thumb
print on it. This is not true.
Also following up on John Lynch's (perhaps more important/substantive) point
re.
access to COOL for Pacific (native speaker) linguists. I think John is
making a
good
point here. I wonder if, given these recent changes in US immigration policy,
whether
the USA is an appropriate place to hold the next COOL. Much as I would like an
excuse to go back to Hilo, it doesn't seem like it really is serving the COOL
constituency.
chrz, miriam


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