[Scale-planning] Volunteer with ADHD denied visa waiver to attend SCaLE and help with the olpc2.0 booth!

[Sean McCabe]

So, if this is true and you have proof. The NY Times, among every news
outlet in the world would love to write a story on this.

Sean

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks...
>
>
> We may have lost one of our booth volunteers who was to fly in from
> England next week. It seems that his visa waiver was denied because he
> marked on his application that he has ADHD!
>
>
> Can you imagine! How many programmers, hackers, etc have ADHD???!!!  We
> are trying to get Sen. Diane Feinstein to help with this, but he may not be
> able to come. I wonder if others from outside the US will run into similar
> hitches???
>
>
> Caryl
>
>
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