OFF: British Embassy in Russia and Festival

[M Holmes]

Alisa writes:

> Hello all,
>
> just got back from UK Embassy. Unfortunately it seems like I won't go to the
> Festival because of decisions of Embassy.
> All documents were made properly and I even had a personal invitation from
> Kris Tait to Hawkwind Festival. Well, they looked through them and didn't
> found any mistake. The old woman looking like Margaret Tatcher, who was
> interviewing me even didn't know what to ask. Maybe she just doesn't know
> what is Hawkwind. She just didn't believe me. So they didn't refuse me in
> getting visa, no. They just appointed the second interview to bring
> additional info on... August 9th! Can you imagine it? She saw that Festival
> being held from 19 to 21 and they appointed this date anyway. What is this -
> mockery of Embassy?
> I've heard that British Embassy has direction not to let young pretty women
> in UK.
> What do you think about all these?

Complete and utter bollocks.

Anything we can do vis a vis petitioning email to the Foreign Office?

FoFP