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Lily Allen banned from US

Singer endures five-hour airport ordeal

Lily Allen has been banned from the US after being stopped at Los Angeles airport.

The singer had her US visa cancelled after being held at an American airport, locked in a cell and strip-searched, reports The Mirror.

"I am trying everything I can to sort this out. I don't like letting my fans down," explained Allen. "It is my intention to play my American dates in September. This depends on authorities granting me a new work visa."

She added: "I want my fans to know that I will do everything I can to be back in America in September. I don't like letting my fans down and this is a situation that I am sure we can sort."

She was challenged by US custom and immigration officers at Los Angeles international airport on Sunday (August 5).

Allen was due to fly into Las Vegas for an awards ceremony, but instead, after negotiations with her lawyer, the singer was released by authorities five hours later and went home.

US immigration officers are understood to have questioned the singer about her arrest in London in March following an alleged clash with a photographer.

source: NME

[Emilee]

i don't get it... ??

[stacey]

i dont get why she was stopped

[tinkerbell]

well this doesnt mean shes actually banned

[~Kizwiz~]

She cant work because her visa has been blocked.

She got into trouble with a photographer, was arrested and now the US authorities have been heavy handed and denied her a visa.

[Lauren]

She'll probably be granted her visa back after they've fulled investigated the incident... the problem may be that she didn't declare it when first applying.

[~Kizwiz~]

Originally posted by Lauren
She'll probably be granted her visa back after they've fulled investigated the incident... the problem may be that she didn't declare it when first applying.

More than likely, I mean she wasnt charged or anything so it must have been a knee jerked reaction

[Billy]

tutut