[An-lang] COOL

[Niniau Kawaihae]

Thank you to all who have commented and provided input regarding the
current situation with regard to VISA accessibility.  Pila and I have been
discussing the merits of us hosting next year's conference and as yet, no
definitive decision has been made.  I expect Pila to send something out
within the next week or so as to whether we will host, after all, COOL 6.
Again, thank you for all of the information and comments!
Aloha,
Niniau Kawaihae

John Bowden <John.Bowden at anu.edu.au> writes:
>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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