Please, I’m just stating a view. You said they had Thai passports and that proved they were Thai citizens. I pointed out that their Thai passports had expired. So they may have been Thai citizens when they were in date, but it doesn’t prove they are Thai citizens now. As you guessed, I renounced my UK citizenship, so although I have many expired UK passports, I am not British. Do you know for sure that the parents of these kids did not renounce their Thai citizenship? I’m not saying they did, I’m saying that it’s possible. Immigration have stated that they do not believe that she is the mother. Do you know more than immigration does? Can you prove she is the mother? Because she couldn’t, not to the satisfaction of immigration anyway. Ahh but she had the birth certificates. But can you prove that the girls listed on the birth certificate and shown in the expired passports, are indeed the two girls standing in front of the IO? The photos in the expired passports presumably don’t match them. And what names are on the current passports on which they are travelling? Thai names or a Chinese name? Where are their Thai ID cards? I think I am right in saying that immigration can deny entry to whomever they like if they feel they should not be permitted entry. Being Chinese doesn’t guarantee entry. I don’t know what thought process led to the kids not being allowed in. I can speculate that immigration decided that they were not Thai citizens, the “mother” was not the mother and that they didn’t feel it was right to permit two teenagers in on their own. Having sufficient funds would be one reason for that because if the mother isn’t the mother, her funds probably don’t count. And since they were staying with family/friends, they had no hotel booking. So, if they are Thai citizens and it was their mother waiting for them, immigrations decision is bizarre. If that’s not their mother and they aren’t Thai citizens, it’s not so bizarre. They obviously couldn’t prove those two things to the satisfaction of immigration and looking at the documentation they had, I’m not entirely surprised.
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