The Refusal of Leave to Enter stamp is a rounded rectangle about 1 inch wide with a double border. Inside it has the date, port, and IO number. It has a vertical and horizontal line through it making a cross.
If somebody evaded controls, like coming in through the Republic after a bounce, they can also get the immigration prohibited stamp. This is about 2 1/2 inches and takes about a half page in the passport and it has the same info as the other stamp except the large letters, "IMMIGRATION PROHIBITED" across it.
She says she doesn't have either of those stamps in her passport.
18:56:04) its the stamp they give you when you are accepted
(18:56:09) it stays heathrow airport
(18:56:21) and her immigration officer number
(18:56:22) annaonthemoon79: does it say on it "leave to remain 6 mos"?
(18:56:26) and then just a pen line through it
(18:56:28) *no
(18:56:35) it says:
(18:56:58) Immigration Officer
(four numbers)
The Date
Heathrow
(18:57:13) pretty sure its the "allowed in" stamp
(18:57:18) but then she changd her mind
(18:57:22) so she drew a line through it
I'm confused...I have pretty much the same stamp, only above mine I have "leave to enter for six months/employment and recourse to public funds forbidden" (well, and no pen marks)
Does this mean she wasn't actually refused? Garry, any ideas here? Is this the first stamp you described, even though it has a line over it instead of a cross?
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(19:00:22) annaonthemoon79: does it have a cross on the stamp?
(19:00:56) no
(19:01:02) her pen lines makea cross
(19:02:12) its the stamp you first mentioned but
(19:02:19) the only lines going through it are
(19:02:21) a pen line,
(19:02:29) its sorta like a cross, but not
(19:02:35) theres a line going across
(19:02:39) but the line going down is further left,
(19:02:41) not down the middle