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Perhaps to prevent them contacting a lawyer? Just a guess.
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Is it because they are sat in a security area and no phones or cameras are allowed???
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pretty well everyone who goes through security has a mobile in their pockets. They're not allowed to use them but there's no bar on having them. So I don't knwo the answer.
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Maybe, if they were refused entry on drugs charges for example, they may have some damning evidence in their mobile?
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Not drugs just paperwork not in order
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paper work not in order covers a very large area
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Think a visa had expired!
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I am not a lawyer and DYOR. After watching many TV programs about UK Border Control, I suspect that they will use what they can get from the phone (or anybody who rings or texts or emails) to try to ascertain the true purpose of the visit. They have powers to explore any relevant evidence they find. In an Australian version of the TV program they rang every Australian stored number in the phone and asked questions.
Imho. No normal traveller is stupid enough embark on a journey with an expired visa. You would need to be a non-EEC citizen to need a visa.
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It could have been done by someone acting without authority. Some of the staff at airports could do with a course in manners towards the public.
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She travels here regularly so must have missed that the date on visa was expiring. Shame some one didnt mention it to her in last visit! Her companion was allowed in and she was refused.
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I think it's more likely she's not allowed to use her phone where she is so its been taken off her til her outbound flight. She is probably sat in some special secure area and not waiting lounge.
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Oh dear
Will she be refused entry for x years now? or will she just be able to get a visa and return?
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I think she can get it sorted and then re-enter. Just a costly mistake to make eh!!! Her husband is here (Aussie) and this has caused a load of problems for her now plus my hubbie has to work tomorrow on his day off and meet the wardrobe fitting guy that she was supposed to meet!! Not made any easier by not being able to call her of course!
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Admittedly I have travelled out by ferry to France with both mine and wifes passport recently expired, and had some difficulty re-entering the country three days later. We stayed calm and eventually broke their intransigence. Why on earth should I need a passport to travel to and EEC country?
If this was a genuine mistake by a regular and trusted traveller with a booked return flight, I am disappointed that the UK Border Agency did not wave this one through.
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She is moving here perm. And has bought a house and enrolled children at school plus found a job so not sure why she couldn't get waved thru. The press have been rife this week about immigration so maybe they are being super tough if the media are watching them! Can't change it now! She is waiting for a flight out!
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an Australian test cricketer recently arrived here to play for Somerset, and was told at Heathrow his papers weren't in order and sent back to Sydney to try again.
Some people have wondered why they couldn't just give him more papers to fill out at Heathrow, on the grounds that very few Australian cricketers these days are al-Qaeda members. But immigration people don't think that way.
(In fact the last immigration boss tried to manage this sort of thing more sensibly but after tabloid uproar, he was sacked.)
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shame some one didnt mention it to her on her last visit
If I travel somewhere where I need a visa I reckon it's my responsibility to make sure that visa is in order.
Why is it always someone else's fault???
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Oh baldric get off your high horse! I never said it was anyone's fault at immigration!!!! I just said its a shame someone didn't mention it on her last visit a month ago as then she would have known! I have travelled with an expired passport as I didn't check the dates! It's easily done. No-one is responsible other than the passenger. But a courteous 'your visa is running out' would possibly have prevented this. Nothing more than a bit of customer care!
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"She is moving here perm. And has bought a house and enrolled children at school plus found a job"
Providing that the UK Border Agency know this, I have absolutely no idea why they took the mobile phone. It would normally be to detect people who might overstay a visa to do this very action.
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Australian immigration would not have pointed it out - they would have taken great pleasure it kicking someone out of their country.
If she is that well travelled she should have checked before embarking on another trip!
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