Dev kits go to anyone internationally. Pre-orders are domestic only (for the moment).
And we've got nothing against our northern neighbors, nor is it some grand favoritism conspiracy. Pure rollout logistics. Lots of people are getting confused on this point, we'll announce more shortly.
Hmm I've just pre-ordered two from Japan (and applied to the dev program too).
I believe the form included international locations, can you confirm it?
Pretty shitty. It comes across to me like they're trying to give a head-start to developers in the US; Not the best way to welcome the international developer community.