Posted by: NepaleseSummerFest May 21, 2012
Login in to Rate this Post:
0 
? 
?
Dear friends in Sajha,
First of all, for those who have bought their tickets, we have already emailed you regarding the full refund and a free entry to the Grand Concert featuring Raju Lama (Mongolian Hearts), Diwas Gurung (Ayurveda) and Eugeneration Project. As for Nepathya's Case, we totally understand your reasoning and concern. We do apologize for it. Nepathya has been all over the world performing and has been to the US as well. We contracted with Nepathya in mid March after which we immediately started the visa process for a P-3 visa. Since we already have a contract with Nepathya, we had every rights to advertise Nepathya coming to US for Nepalese SummerFest. The P-3 visa from State Department got approved towards end of March. Nepathya had their Australia tour in April and they were in Australia until mid April. They applied for a visa date after they got back on third week of April. After their visa interview in first week of May, the Consulate held on to their documents for almost a week and then denied them. Meanwhile we did everything we could to make it happen. But unfortunately we just couldn't succeed. We didn't build up the hype to cheat as the hype was all true until the visa was denied. Everything else besides the visa, which we have always realized to be an essential part, had been in place and that too was in the process with all essential documents from us. All of it. We went by the book. We would have never ever thought that a band like Nepathya's Visa would get denied based on their records and history.
The US consulate rejected their visa under 214 b, and that's all we can tell you as that's all they have told us. No further explanation was given to us. What confuses me is how come unknown artists are given visa and Nepathya was denied?
We are honest people and our intentions have always been to bring the best. We are sorry for so many heartbreaks, but we tried all we could to bring the best show for the Nepali community here in the US. We complied with all of Nepathya's demands and went above and beyond to bring them here to the US. Amrit dai himself posted this http://myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=35242
The recent track record of human trafficking from Nepal under different visas could have contributed but like I said we were told that it was 214b.
I hope that with the programs and the execution we will be able to gain your support for next year as well. We hope to see you all at SummerFest.
Nepalese SummerFest Team,
First of all, for those who have bought their tickets, we have already emailed you regarding the full refund and a free entry to the Grand Concert featuring Raju Lama (Mongolian Hearts), Diwas Gurung (Ayurveda) and Eugeneration Project. As for Nepathya's Case, we totally understand your reasoning and concern. We do apologize for it. Nepathya has been all over the world performing and has been to the US as well. We contracted with Nepathya in mid March after which we immediately started the visa process for a P-3 visa. Since we already have a contract with Nepathya, we had every rights to advertise Nepathya coming to US for Nepalese SummerFest. The P-3 visa from State Department got approved towards end of March. Nepathya had their Australia tour in April and they were in Australia until mid April. They applied for a visa date after they got back on third week of April. After their visa interview in first week of May, the Consulate held on to their documents for almost a week and then denied them. Meanwhile we did everything we could to make it happen. But unfortunately we just couldn't succeed. We didn't build up the hype to cheat as the hype was all true until the visa was denied. Everything else besides the visa, which we have always realized to be an essential part, had been in place and that too was in the process with all essential documents from us. All of it. We went by the book. We would have never ever thought that a band like Nepathya's Visa would get denied based on their records and history.
The US consulate rejected their visa under 214 b, and that's all we can tell you as that's all they have told us. No further explanation was given to us. What confuses me is how come unknown artists are given visa and Nepathya was denied?
We are honest people and our intentions have always been to bring the best. We are sorry for so many heartbreaks, but we tried all we could to bring the best show for the Nepali community here in the US. We complied with all of Nepathya's demands and went above and beyond to bring them here to the US. Amrit dai himself posted this http://myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=35242
The recent track record of human trafficking from Nepal under different visas could have contributed but like I said we were told that it was 214b.
I hope that with the programs and the execution we will be able to gain your support for next year as well. We hope to see you all at SummerFest.
Nepalese SummerFest Team,