[TYPES] Could we temporarily stop having conferences in the US?

[Julia Belyakova]

I don't disagree that the US is not a welcome destination for many people
right now.

I did want to point out the existence of the trapped-in-the-US
international community because in my experience, a lot of people,
understandably, are not aware of this phenomenon.

In general, there are many reasons why an individual cannot travel to a
particular location, be it the US or another country.

To be constructive, I would like to amplify an alternative suggestion
discussed in Zulip, which is to have an explicit policy for presenting the
paper at a different conference that is held in a more suitable location
for the author. Similar to what SIGPLAN-track has been doing at SPLASH.

Of course, it would require more coordination across the conferences and an
additional logistics burden on organizers.

-- 
Kind regards, Julia
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On Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 12:27 AM Sanjiva Prasad <sanjiva at cse.iitd.ac.in>
wrote:

> So ia=s my son (for INS reasons) -- could not attend ECOOP or CAV this
> year where he had best papers.
>
> But computer science is not a US monopoly (not even in ACM now, though
> registered in the US).
> It costs Indians and Chinese and some others USD250 over the visa costs
> just to enter the US.
> Am not saying that getting into Europe or India is easier, but US is not
> a welcome destination for many right now.
>
> On 22/09/25 04:18, Julia Belyakova wrote:
> > [ The Types Forum,
> http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list  ]
> >
> > I understand this position but just want to remind that there are many
> > international students and professionals in the community who are stuck
> > inside the US and cannot cross the border, even to go Canada.
> >
> > I, for one, have been stuck in the US since 2020.
> >
>
> --
> Sanjiva Prasad
> Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
> Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)
>
>
>