Passport regulations may be getting stiffer, but this story make be taking things a bit too far… A British man went to Amsterdam to see his friends for the weekend. He showed his passport to border control and he was allowed entry.
At the end of the weekend, he returned home and upon producing his passport he was denied entry. The reason – he was too fat!
Border control authorities said that Derrick Agyeman was not the same person that appeared in his passport photo. The passport photo, which is nine years old, showed Agyeman when he weighed considerably less.
Authorities who checked his passport said that the passport photograph did not belong to Agyeman because of differences in the thickness of his ears and lips.
As a result of the decision of the border patrol officials, Mr. Agyeman was detained and forced to remain in Amsterdam for three months before he was finally allowed to use his passport to get back in the country.
Agyeman was outraged by this passport photo fiasco and he filed a lawsuit in Britain’s High Court over his treatment by the country’s Foreign Office. He lost the case, but now Agyeman may be considering an appeal.
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