Dozens of British students on a trip to the US were left stranded in the country after their hotel mistakenly shredded their passports.
“Our staff are always on hand to support Brits in trouble overseas, and we have been in close contact with this school to assist them,” a Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office spokesperson told the BBC. “We are processing their applications for emergency travel documents so the staff and children can return to the U.K. as quickly as possible.”
“Unfortunately, the hotel managed to destroy the passports in their care, which has led to all those affected having to apply for Emergency Travel Documents,” head teacher Katie Hobbs, who was not on the trip, told the Express & Star. “The group are at the British Embassy in New York today to finalize all of the documents before they fly home on Tuesday, four days later than planned.
“She has just communicated well with us and was really calm and really clear,” the parent told the BBC. “She has just been phenomenal.”
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