Originally Posted by
xenole
I love watching these Australian "Nothing To Declare" tv shows and regularly, immigration ends up cancelling a tourist visa due to the fact that the person holding it isn't classed as an official tourist. They then generally get sent back to their country of origin the same day.
So what actually happens after the visa cancellation?
Do they have special holding rooms at the airport or use police cells?
How do they get a flight for that person and does the deportee have to pay? (would have though some flights, same day would cost $1000s especially if going back to the US/UK etc)
I was refused entry to Australia this year
Im a British born woman age 40 year of age born in the uk and i have a british passport - it was my second trip and they refused me entry
they believed that i was there to work even though i had nothing on me that would have given them that idea. I think it was because i went there about 2 months prior for a holiday but i got ill ( which i could prove if they wanted me to ) and so half the stuff i planned to see i didn't get to see. Searched my bags laptops iPads phone ect but found nothing obviously
I had plenty of money on my credit cards ( over 30klimit and had access to this amount) So i could defiantly support myself and i was happy to show them this on my on line banking
i tried to explain that i had received a payout from a savings account last summer which was over 7k which was funding both trips
I own my own house in the uk ( 3 in fact with my husband) married 14 years and have 19 year old son and I'm self employed in the beauty/hair business which was why i was able to take my holidays when i want to so plenty of ties to the uk so obviously not going to stay there and work
They held me in detention cells for 24 hours before sending me back on my airline ( singapore )
I didn't have to pay anything towards the airline ect They banned me for 3 years I wasn't given my passport until i got of the flight in the UK
I was also held in detention in Singapore for 2 hours until i got on my flight
Something similar happened to the american guy who was next in line as well as we were in the same detention centre
Taken from the horses mouth