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BooScout

(10,406 posts) Tue Aug 20, 2019, 06:24 PM Aug 2019

Ok....so it's the Daily Mail...but the BBC just reported it on air, lol

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7376789/Boris-Johnsons-partner-Carrie-Symonds-refused-visitors-visa-2018-trip-Somaliland.html

Barred from America: New UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's girlfriend Carrie Symonds, 31, is refused US visitors' visa 'over 2018 trip to Somaliland'the

*Symonds, 31, applied for visa to go to the US in the next few days for her work
*It was for a US-based environmental group, but authorities blocked the request
*Believed decision stems from visit made in 2018 by Miss Symonds to East Africa
*The PM's girlfriend went with her friend Nimco Ali, who was born in Somaliland
*During the trip, they met the self-declared Somaliland president Muse Bihi Abdi

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