Originally Posted by
auher
Weird that alot of you have had problems with the London thing. Is it because you didn't have an onward ticket / return ticket, or for some other reason.......
My mother and I had trouble with London 25 years ago but it was quite understandable other than the passport official's fixation on an impossible scenario. (He thought we were trying to get in to get free treatment for my mother's blindness. Sorry, but the docs can't do anything for someone with glass eyes.)
Arriving with a total of $5 (problems with transferring money) and a bit scruffy tropical attire (we had our cooler-weather stuff packed away separately to reduce the amount of stuff we actually needed to deal with. A thief got that bag.) and being a blind woman + minor child (albeit 17) isn't exactly how to get into a country. It took us 2 hours to get him to get BA to run our CC and see that it was good.