A British passenger was wrongly deported from Norway after border police mixed passport rules.
Passengers flew with Norwegian Airlines from Edinburgh February 22, prepare for a week with their partner and friends.
But when they entered border controls, police told holiday makers that their passports were ineffective.
According to independent reports, they were told: “Your passport was issued on March 26, 2015 and is therefore considered valid only until March 26, 2025.
“You plan to depart from Norway, the Schengen area is March 1, 2025, and your passport is invalid for three months after the departure date due to border regulations.
“So you were fired from Norway.”
After being detained, passengers were sent back to the UK plane and said they were “exiled from Norway”.
Despite the deportation of British nationals, under the Schengen Border Code, they have a passport suitable for traveling to Norway.
A British passenger was wrongly deported from Norway after border police mixed passport rules
The plane passengers were told their passports were invalid and police said: “As a result, you were fired from Norway”
Schengen border regulations states must issue passports within the past 10 years of the day they enter the country and are valid for at least three months on the planned date of departure of the country.
When the passport is issued on March 26, 2015, the passport is always valid until March 25, 2025, with a maximum of 90 days.
Meanwhile, the passport will expire on November 26, 2025, more than three months after March 1, 2025, when passengers were planning to leave Norway.
A Norwegian spokesman told the Independent: “We regret the passenger disruption due to the inconsistent interpretation of the Schengen passport rules in Nordic countries.
As airlines, we must comply with local border control directives that are not yet clear.
“We urge authorities to provide clear and unified guidance to airlines to prevent further passenger issues and to avoid penalties for our companies.”
This is not the first time that the Schengen rules have been misunderstood recently.
Grant Hardy told MailOnline Travel he and his wife left about £4,000 from their pockets His passport expiration status did not exist after Swiss port officials at Jersey Airport applied a rule and refused to let him board a smart wing plane to Tenerife.
Airplane passengers are flying to Oslo airport with their partners and friends for a week
Mr. Hardy, who lives in Guernsey and works for a telecommunications company, arrived at the airport on 21 February 2025 with a passport seen by MailOnline and can be confirmed to be valid under the new EU entry rules.
It has a history of less than 10 years, was issued on March 27, 2015 and expires at least three months on the date of planned returns on February 28.
In fact, its effectiveness is eight months and expires in October.
However, when Mr Hardy submitted his passport for inspection, he claimed that an official told him that his passport was “used out after 10 years” and that “other months in the EU are invalid”.