OFF: British Embassy in Russia and Festival

[Colin J Allen]

Mike,

No point; given the timescale a petition would not be any use.

Alisa: did they give you a reference number?  If so, could you send it to me
ASAP?

Colin

----- Original Message -----
From: "M Holmes" <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: OFF: British Embassy in Russia and Festival


> 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
>