Dwight Yorke refused entry into US
Former Manchester United footballer Dwight Yorke has been barred from flying to the US because he once played a match in Iran.
Yorke was travelling to the Caribbean when he was prevented from boarding a connecting flight via Miami on Friday because he has an Iranian stamp in his passport.
He visited Iran in 2015 to play a charity football match.
Yorke was travelling from Qatar, where he works as a football commentator.
He told the Sun: "I have lost count of the number of times I have been to America, I love the country, yet I was being made to feel like a criminal.
"They told me there was a visa problem and a red flag had come up against my name because of an Iranian stamp in my passport.
"The two officials told me if I got on the flight I would simply be deported back to Qatar once I arrived in the States.
"I tried to explain I didn’t even live in Qatar and was just trying to get to my home in the Caribbean."
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Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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