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By HAYLEY MINN Published: 13:11 BST, 8 April 2025 | Updated: 13:11 BST, 8 April 2025
A British passenger was wrongly deported from Norway after border police mixed up passport rules.The passenger, having flown with Norwegian Airline, landed at Oslo Airport from Edinburgh on February 22, ready for a week away with their partner and friends.But when they got to border control, the police told the holidaymaker they had insufficient validity on their passport.According to The Independent, they were told: ‘Your passport is issued 26 March 2015 and is therefore considered valid only until the 26 March 2025.‘Your planned departure from Norway and the Schengen area is 1 March 2025, and the passport is not valid for three months after the date of departure as the border regulation demands.‘You are therefore expelled from Norway.’After being detained, the passenger was put on a plane back to the UK with a notice saying they had been ‘expelled from Norway’.Despite the fact the British national was deported, they had a passport that was valid for travel to Norway, under the Schengen Borders Code. A British passenger was wrongly deported from Norway after border police mixed up passport rules The plane passenger was told their passport was invalid and police said: ‘You are therefore expelled from Norway’The Schengen Borders Code states passports must be issued within the last 10 years on the day of entering the country, and valid for at least three months after the planned date of leaving the country.As the passport was issued on 26 March 2015, it was valid up to 25 March 2025 for a stay of up to 90 days.Meanwhile, the passport expires on 26 November 2025, which is far more than three months after 1st March 2025, when the passenger was planning to leave Norway.A spokesperson for Norwegian told The Independent: ‘We regret the disruption to our passengers due to inconsistent interpretation of Schengen passport rules by the Nordic countries.’As an airline, we must comply with local border control directives, which are currently unclear. ‘We have urged the authorities to provide clear, unified guidance to airlines, in order to prevent further passenger issues and avoid penalties for our company.’It’s not the first time the Schengen rules have been misinterpreted recently.Grant Hardy told MailOnline Travel that he and his wife were left around £4,000 out of pocket after Swissport officials at Jersey Airport applied a rule that doesn’t exist to his passport expiry status and refused to let him board a Smartwings flight to Tenerife. The plane passenger was flying to Oslo Airport for a week away with their partner and friendsMr Hardy, who lives on Guernsey and works for a telecom company, arrived at the airport on February 21 2025 with a passport that MailOnline has seen and can confirm was valid under new EU entry rules.It was less than 10 years old, having been issued on March 27, 2015, and had an expiry date at least three months after the planned date of return on February 28.In fact, it had eight months of validity, with an expiry date in October.However, when Mr Hardy presented his passport for inspection, he claimed that an official told him his passport ‘runs out after 10 years’ and that ‘the additional months were not valid in the EU’.
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British passenger wrongly deported from Norway after border police mix up passport rules
