Illegal Allen: Lily denied at US border
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Lily Allen has had to fly back to LDN after being refused entry at the US border.
The fighty pop strumpet was sent back after a five-hour interrogation over her criminal record and, more specifically, her arrest in March over the alleged assault of a photographer.
Five hours? You'd think a simple 'yes or no' answer would suffice. Immigration officials at Los Angeles airport cancelled Allen's working visa for the trip, during which she was due to shoot a video with Kanye West and appear at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Aside from Kanye and the VMAs, it would now appear that the caution Allen received from the Met back in spring has put her forthcoming US tour in jeopardy.
"I am trying everything I can to sort this out. I don't like letting my fans down," attested the singer.
"It is my intention to play my American dates in September."
Course, her intentions may not be shared with the US government.
"This depends on the authorities granting me a new work visa. I am sure that we can sort this out."
It's been a while since we had some Lily Allen news. I, for one, am glad to get back down to some real journalism.
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i want her to come round my house
and we can watch tv or something.
I don't get how this sort of thing happens
Don't you apply for a visa before even leaving the country?
If it can happen to pop stars..
Im absolutely fucked.
...
This is an interesting situation. The US's highly rigid immigration system can eject people for the slightest blot on their records.
On the one hand, this has the potential to limit the ability of British bands from cracking the US market by restricting their ability to tour, which would be damaging to record company interests on both sides of the Atlantic.
On the other hand, every time I hear about this happening, it's always to a band that is totally shit.
It's a pickle.
So what are they saying...
If you have a parking ticket offence and you won't be allowed into the US?? I'm not a fan of Lily's but I do feel for her. That must be pretty frustrating.
When I say
"feel for her" i'm not talking blind gropes.
Bit of a mess
...but it's Lily Allen so at least the NME has its next 8 weeks of writing sorted.
no
from europe anyway, you just fill in a green form on the plane. that's it.
well, that's what i did anyway.
Q. Are you a terrorist?
yes [ ]
no [ ]
actually, tjhat was for a holiday visa
yes, you're meant to apply before you leave the country for a work visa.
can we just.....
... get past all the shameful admissions that we fancy here every time a story on her comes on here?
she's a honey, regardless of her choonz. move on......
wouldn't it have been funny
if US immigration had stopped loads of national teams for World Cup 94, or the Atlanta Olympics, or the Salt Lake City Bribe Games from entering?
i need to shout it from a mountain
and since i dont have a mountain i do it here
Is there anything more traditional
than people on here grudgingly admitting that they fancy Lily Allen after a news story?
The FA Cup?
Picnics?
Christmas?
No.
yeah
but they always get to skip the queue.
LDN
See, I can see what you were trying to do, but in the context of flying somewhere, LDN is in Nepal. Sorry!
.
Can't they send her to Gitmo or something?!?
maybe her dad the sherref of nothingham
could have a word


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