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LONDON, Jan 14, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- The boyfriend of a U.S. woman says she had to return home after British officials read in her diary that she wanted to get a job in the United Kingdom.
Twenty-three-year-old Elizabeth Louis and her boyfriend, James Caddy, had spent Christmas together in Cincinnati, but when the couple arrived in London, she was questioned by immigration officials and her bags searched.
Caddy said he later found out that officials had decided his girlfriend could not stay on her tourist visa because of an entry in her diary that said on a previous visit she had been offered a job with a bank she could not accept because she did not have the correct visa. She had also written in her diary that she had hoped to be able to find work in Britain, the Daily Telegraph reported Saturday.
"The diary entry was made at the beginning of her visit last year," Caddy said. "She never actually looked for a job in the end. On this visit she had no intention of working. I have been supporting her. It seems wrong to chuck her out because of a diary entry."
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