My family was held like criminals after a simple passport issue it was traumatic and we missed our vacation

They went from traveling abroad to locked up abroad in a flash.A UK mom claims her family were detained for 24 hours “like criminals” and forced to miss out on their $8,000 vacation after arriving in Turkey with an expired passport.“It was a real honest mistake.We didn’t deserve that treatment,” Amber Maherloughnan, 28, told Kennedy News Agency of the “traumatic” ordeal.

“I will never do that again in my lifetime.”The mother-of-one had reportedly flown with fiancé Will Land-smith, 31, and six-year-old son Reuben from London to Antalya, Turkey on August 5 for a week-long getaway in the idyllic seaside locale.Things initially appeared to be going swimmingly as the family went through two passport-checking stations and boarded the plane without incident.It wasn’t until they arrived in the Middle Eastern country that their trip took a turn for the worse.“We came into Turkish airlines to the passport control,” Maherloughnan, who works as a photographer, recalled.“My son’s passport was the last passport at the bottom.

The officer went through our passports and said that it was all fine.” She added, “He saw my son’s and just started shouting and saying ‘the police are being called.Your passports expired and you won’t be allowed into the country.'”Authorities subsequently revealed that Reuben’s passport had expired on April 16, 2024 — nearly four months before their trip.

“I had no idea the whole time it was out of date,” the boy’s distraught mom recalled.Brit said she was absolutely “terrified” because she “didn’t know what was going to happen.” “I said ‘I’m so sorry, I don’t know what to do,'” recounted Maherloughnan, whose dream trip soon devolved into a nightmare.She said her family were held by police for 24 hours, during which they were treated like “criminals.” “They took me into an office with four officers and said ‘you’re not allowed into the country, there’s nothing you can do,...