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<\/p>\nA British-Norwegian teenager has spent more than three weeks stranded in Denmark after changes to passport rules prevented her from returning to the UK.<\/p>\n
The 16-year-old girl, who holds dual citizenship and was born in Bristol, found herself unable to board a Norwegian Airlines flight from Copenhagen to London on March 8.<\/p>\n
The teen, who has chosen to remain anonymous, was travelling with her Norwegian-born mother to return home from visiting her father when she was stopped at check-in.<\/p>\n
She has accused the British government of “locking” her out of her own country and treating her with hostility.<\/p>\n
The teenager will finally return to Britain on Wednesday after receiving emergency travel documents, although she has missed several weeks of school during the ordeal.<\/p>\n
Regulations introduced in February now require British dual nationals, including minors, to use a British or Irish passport when entering the UK.<\/p>\n
Before these changes took effect, dual citizens were permitted to travel with their foreign passports.<\/p>\n
When the teenager attempted to travel, she was awaiting a British passport, which she had applied for before her trip to Denmark.<\/p>\n
A British teenager was left stranded in Denmark after changes to passport rules prevented her from returning to the UK<\/p>\n
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As airline staff struggled to process her check-in, Norwegian Airlines contacted the British embassy in Copenhagen seeking assistance.<\/p>\n
However, embassy officials informed the carrier that they could not provide any assistance.<\/p>\n
The teenager had applied for her British passport before departing for her father’s visit, but the document had not arrived in time for her return journey.<\/p>\n
On the day she finally obtained her emergency travel document, she expressed profound disappointment with the Government’s handling of her situation, urging politicians to rectify what she described as their “mistake”.<\/p>\n
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The teenager said her experience had shattered what she now considers a ‘naive’ belief Britain valued fairness and common sense<\/p>\n
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“I turned 16 in January. Six weeks later, my country locked me out. <\/p>\n
\u201cI have been here ever since, missing school, missing my friends, missing my life, because the UK has decided that I, a British citizen born in Bristol, am not sufficiently British to be allowed to return,” she said.<\/p>\n
The teenager acknowledged individual officials she encountered had generally been kind, with some appearing embarrassed by the situation.<\/p>\n
“But the system itself has no kindness in it,” the teen told The Times. <\/p>\n
“It does not see a child missing school. It does not see a girl who is missing key content for her soon-to-take-place GCSEs.”<\/p>\n
The teenager said her experience had shattered what she now considers a “naive” belief Britain valued fairness and common sense.<\/p>\n
“I do not believe that any more,” she said, adding the system views people merely as “a category, an application, a reference number, a fee”.<\/p>\n
During her three weeks away from school, the teenager has been revising at her father’s flat while trying to keep pace with her studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A British-Norwegian teenager has spent more than three weeks stranded in Denmark after changes to passport rules prevented…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27,26,71,38,10308,1161],"class_list":{"0":"post-52735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denmark","8":"tag-danmark","9":"tag-denmark","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-sgg","13":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116325569364803210","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}