Refused entry?

[horseman]

Was just having a shower and was wondering to myself, what would be the procedure if you had been refused entry into a country? Are you sent home at your expense? Or is the flight paid for by the country your visiting? Are you locked up in some countries?
Has anyone here ever been refused entry?

 

[markis10]

In most cases its the airline that put you there that needs to take you home for visa issues where they should have checked, otherwise it's your expense AFAIK, never been there myself.

 

[flyingfan]

As markis10 said if the airline brought you to the country when it shouldn't have, the onus is on it to take you back. For other cases, first of all there will be an attempt to invoke your return sector. Failing that or if you didn't have a return flight booked, ISTR being informed that (as far as the situation here goes), you will be asked to pay what you can for the flight home, and if you say you don't have any or enough money, the government will pay for the rest of the airfare. That then becomes a 'debt to the Commonwealth' that you have to clear if you ever want to apply for a visa etc again.

Procedure would be to remove you ASAP, however i would imagine in some countries an unpleasant period of being locked up may be involved...

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Procedure would be to remove you ASAP, however i would imagine in some countries an unpleasant period of being locked up may be involved...

Some countries including Australia... if the flight back home is not till the next day you will overnight in a detention centre.

There would be no reason for a country to lock you up if you are refused entry (I should edit this for clarity... there is no reason for a country to lock you up for refused entry unless you need to be detained for the purpose of a return flight...)

 

[ChasingDaylight]

As above, if being deported you're liable to spend a bit of time in a detention centre whilst everything gets processed. Bad luck if it ends up being Villawood (and may not be limited to one night either).