As the situation escalated, the woman’s boyfriend in the UK contacted the Chinese Consulate in London, who opened a case file and confirmed they could help. <\/p>\n
However, a “blackout” in communication occurred because the British Consulate in Shanghai had not yet opened for the day.<\/p>\n
“I couldn’t get through to anybody, my parents, my boyfriend, and even the London consulate couldn’t get through to anybody in China,” she explained. <\/p>\n
She told the BBC said she was eventually escorted through security and onto a plane back to the UK. <\/p>\n
She said it was a stressful experience and it “almost felt like a little bit like a fugitive.<\/p>\n
“It felt like I’d done something really wrong, and I felt really stupid.”<\/p>\n
Her passport was confiscated for the duration of the 12-hour flight and only returned to her once she landed back at Gatwick.<\/p>\n
“Nothing makes you feel quite more alone than being refused entry to a country and then not sure what’s happening with yourself,” she said.<\/p>\n
While the woman has now returned safely to the island, she has written to the Cabinet Office to seek clarity on why the Manx passport, which identifies the holder as a British Citizen, was not recognised under the international agreement.<\/p>\n
“I don’t blame the people at immigration for questioning it… but also to know that some formal agreement has been signed and half of the people I know in London and England agree that I’m supposed to be in there but the people in China don’t.”<\/p>\n
The BBC has contacted the Isle of Man Government for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the situation escalated, the woman’s boyfriend in the UK contacted the Chinese Consulate in London, who opened…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-503088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}