It is beneficial in some host countries that NeurIPS collect the additional information below. NeurIPS will communicate this information to immigration shortly before the conference. This information is stored encrypted and deleted from the NeurIPS database just after it is communicated to immigration. This information is collected in order to expedite visa applications.
To enable the collection of visa application ids, visit the admin for Conferences and set collect_visa_application_information to True. Instructions and a form will appear at /InvitationLetter. Data are collected into the VisaInformation models and most of the data is stored encrypted.
After the additional information is communicated to immigration, delete it from the database.
To export an Excel spreadsheet of the collected information, visit the VisaInformation table in the Django Admin interface select the records you want to export (probably by filtering for conference year), then choose the Export admin action.