Airport ordeal for grandmother
A grandmother from Britain spent seven hours in an interrogation room at a US airport – because she had overstayed her visa by 20 minutes on a previous trip, according to a British newspaper.
Adrienne Hughes, 52, from Leicestershire, was heading out to Venice, Florida, to visit a holiday home she had bought there, according to the Daily Mail.
But when her plane landed at Detroit, where she was due to catch a connecting flight to Tampa in Florida, she was held by immigration officials, who searched her luggage and then detained her.
Mrs Hughes had been to the States earlier this year for a three-month stay during which she bought the holiday property.
She told the Daily Mail: “It was horrendous. I understand security has to be tight after September 11, but I never imagined this. They took me into a room where there were at least 12 men. Nobody would tell me why I was there.”
She was eventually put on a flight back to Britain via Amsterdam.
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