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Dozens of British high school students who went on a trip to the US were left stranded in the country after the hotel where they were staying accidentally shredded their passports.
“Our staff are always available to support Britons in trouble overseas, and we have been in close contact with the school to assist them,” a British Foreign Office spokesman told the BBC. “We are processing their applications for emergency travel documents so that the staff and children can return to the UK as quickly as possible.”
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A group of Bar Beacon High School students on a ski trip in New Hampshire and had to extend the trip by four days as they await emergency documents from the British Embassy. There are a total of 38 students and four more teachers who accompanied the trip.
“Unfortunately, the hotel managed to destroy the passports in their care, which led to all those affected having to apply for emergency travel documents,” school principal Katie Hobbs, who was not on the trip, told the Express & Star. “The group is at the British Embassy in New York today to finalize all the paperwork before they fly home on Tuesday, four days later than planned.”
As a result of the mistake, the families had to pay about $180 for the documents. It is not known if the hotel took responsibility for the mistake and paid these costs.
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