A TEACHER was left bawling after she was stranded in Thailand when airport staff noticed an issue with her passport's condition. Rosie Viscomi , 27, from Norfolk , was due to return from Bangkok on July 4 but her flight home was abruptly put on halt. The yoga teacher had booked a multi-stop flight from Bangkok to India to Turkey before arriving in London on Thursday.
But she claims she was barred from her flight back to London because of a 'tiny' tear in her passport and accidentally overstaying her visa - and has had to spend hundreds to get back home. Rosie, who is also a dance teacher, had been staying in Thailand's southerastern Koh Pha-ngan island since April, shortly after qualifying as a yogi in India. She said when she got to Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport, staff from budget carrier IndiGo Airlines denied her boarding on the grounds of a 'one centimetre' rip on the photo page in her passport.
Rosie said she was also informed her visa had expired and alarmingly told she was currently in the country illegally, despite claiming she had extended her visa just days before. Rosie said: "When I went to go for my flight on Thursday they said 'you're not going anywhere with that' referring to a small rip in my passport and I said 'well it was already like this'. "They told me India won't let me in and I need to book a direct flight from Bangkok to London.
"There's been no issues with travelling until now. I had a tear already on my passport when I came here, I'm not sure if it.