Can There Be More To This Story Than We Are Being Told?

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/boy-passport-home-office-belgium-holiday-blocked-mother-a8522211.html

[anotheoldgit]

Now there's a surprise.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mohamed-bangoura-british-boy-refused-entry-uk-emergency-passport-latest-a8526101.html

[Rockrose]

good

[Mamyalynne]

A lot more detail in the follow up, thank you.

Bet he's looking forward to getting back to school.

[Peter Pedant]

when we went to France in 1958
the four children ( oo la la c'etait moi aussi) went froo da Brit channels with British Passports
and our parents went thro 'others'
on the way back in

sending a kid to Belgium having had notice the passport had been revoked strikes me as er foolhardy in todays world....

[Peter Pedant]

// Easily done when you don't check the post//
I did that with motor insurance ...... only once ( 1978)

[webbo3]

\\“People being refused re-entry here is exactly one of the effects of their policies. It will keep on happening until they abandon the hostile environment altogether.”

Chai Patel, legal policy director at the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI), called for a full and independent inquiry into "this shambles of a Home Office”, accusing the department of "stranding a young child in a foreign country, when the only home he knows is in the UK".//


The home office were doing their job whatever way you look at it.