visa mix-up saw his girlfriend deported.Scott Kinghorn, 32, and partner Thallise Marciano, 29, had splashed out on the week-long trip to Mexico, but upon arrival Brazilian national Thallise was stopped by border control staff as they walked through immigration.Thallise was then informed she had been required to apply for a separate visa to gain entry to their holiday location, and was sent home. READ MORE: Brit woman wakes up with awful 'plastic' forehead burn after falling asleep sunbathing Scott claims that they weren’t notified of this requirement from their booking agent, TUI, meaning that he was stranded in their holiday destination alone.
The Edinburgh native blamed the holiday company for the mix-up, claiming Thallise should never have been able to board that flight with a Brazilian passport and the incorrect documents.The couple booked a last-minute package trip to Cancun with TUI at the start of June and flew out from Glasgow two weeks later.They said they filled out the required visa forms on the plane in line with Mexico’s government guidelines ready for when they landed."We arrived in Cancun buzzing for our holiday, but when I arrived at baggage claim I realised I'd lost her,” Scott admitted."I went back to look for her, but the immigration officers refused to let me walk back through passport control.”Airport staff ‘eventually agreed’ to look for his partner for him, but they returned with the bad news that she was being deported to Glasgow."When they came back, they said she was being sent home for having the wrong visa," he added."They wouldn't even let me see her before she left and I had all our credit cards and our house keys."Scott said he was then forced to continue on with his journey into Mexico on.
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