Another Team Visa Issue for TI7

This time it's Team LFY with their two players Monet and Inflame,the two talented player got rejected in their Interview for applying visa.

Source:LGD_DOTA2's weibo account-http://weibo.com/5451432275/FcoYR931y?type=comment#_rnd1500048770441

English translation:

LFY players Peng Du(ID: Monet) and Yongzheng He(ID: Inflame) are rejected in today's US visa interviews.

Inflame originally holds a valid US visa. However, due to the loss of passport, he has to apply a replacement visa for the new passport, for which an interview is required. Although Inflame explained to the visa officer that he's applying for a replacement one and that he has been to US three times, he was still rejected without mercy.

Previously for Monet's visa issues, the LFY organization prepared comprehensive materials, including:
* Invitation letter from Valve
* Itinerary from Valve and hotel address
* Driver licence
* Certificate of employment
* Business licence of the organization
* Certificate of deposit balance and transactions of past six months
* English references from esports associations of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces
* Guardian's power of attorney and copy of temporary guardian's passport
* Original copy of passport and ID
* Photos of Epicenter 2017 in Moscow
* Temporary residence permit of Shanghai
and etc.

Also, to increase the chance of success, the organization registered motor vehicles under the player's name and hired professionals for training and practice interviews.

During the interview today, questions from the visa officer includes:
1. Intended purpose? Answer: Attending The International 2017 by the invitation of Valve;
2. Are you a student? Answer: No;
3. Occupation? Answer: DotA2 professional player.

After brief conversation, the visa officer started browsing information on the computer. Among the materials provided, only those from Valve were checked. Passports of players were not checked as well. In the end, the two players were rejected.

Regarding current situation, the organization is actively arranging appointments for a second interview, tentatively in next week. For the second interview, senior executive of the LFY organization(US citizen) will accompany the players in the hope of increasing chance of success. We will do our best to help our players overcome current difficulties.

with this problem occuring every year for any team that qualifies an international events It can affect and It has so much impact to the esports industry and community.The question is when can really be esport athletes won't bother think about this kind of problems and just focus on practicing? Dota2 Community and Esports is getting bigger but the problem is when will the world be open minded about the whole community and the athletes that compete for every LAN's they go and need to go.This problem is always occuring every year regardless of any team.I really hope that esports community and big esports company will join hands to make esports a bigger thing where athletes can compete without this kind of problems.