'Many scholars born in ostracized countries face...drawn-out, oftentimes years-spanning processes when we need to travel. The obstacles take a toll on our professional development...and our mental health,' OmidVEbrahimi writes in this ScienceWorkingLife.
I hung up the phone and tried to come to terms with the news. I had been hoping to present my work at an upcoming international conference, in the country that hosts nearly all major global scientific meetings. I had spent the past year working feverishly to obtain a visa. The process had been so drawn out that I had already missed two other conferences there. But I had been holding onto hope I would be able to attend this third one—until the phone call with the embassy.
I was born in Iran, and my experience couldn’t have been more different. I spent hours responding to strange questions in the same portal and paid an eightfold larger fee, after which I was informed I needed to book an in-person interview. The first available appointment in the Netherlands, where I was working as a visiting researcher, was 9 months away—6 months after the first conference was to take place.
About half a year later, I was at the embassy for the interview. After I waited in line for hours, the interview was over in minutes. My visa was temporarily denied, and I was sent home to provide “additional necessary information.”
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