A mother and her toddler have been left stranded in Spain after a passport rule change ‘quietly introduced’ left them unable to return home to Manchester.
Tegan van der Merwe faced every parent’s worst nightmare when she found herself stranded in a foreign country with little money and no way home, being ‘treated like a criminal’.
The 25-year-old mother flew from Manchester to Palma de Mallorca on June 21 for a five-day holiday with her two-year-old daughter. Then, she had no idea of what obstacles they would face trying to return home.
Having lived in the UK since 2002 as a settled British citizen,
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