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Lily Allen's US visa has been canceled after a Sunday night run-in with the U.S. Department of Immigration at LAX, during which she was strip-searched (ooh! or not!), locked in a cell for five hours (eww!), and quizzed about her recent altercation with a paparazzo outside a London nightclub (don't these people read the tabloids?).
Allen is allowed to stay in the States for the rest of her current trip—which includes a stop in Vegas, where she'll celebrate the MTV Video Music Awards kickoff and shoot a video with Kanye West, who's clearly going for the Stereogum demo these days—but whether or not she'll be able to come back into the country and tour the West Coast this fall is dependent on how authorities here are feeling about her. Showing off her third nipple is probably out, as far as efforts to impress them go. If only more bloggers worked for the Feds!
Lily is banned from US [Mirror, via NME]
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FWIW, according to the BBC report, an MTV spokesperson said she was *not* strip searched. But the Mirror wouldn't exaggerate something to make a more scandalous story, would they?
And all over NYC, artists and musicians are wondering how they can scam their way into Lily Allen's now-vacatec loft (complete with recording equipment).
Wasn't M.I.A. having similar problems, then she suddenly has been back stateside?
Our Founding Fathers didn't win our freedom so that British riff-raff could galavant about our country, dammit!
nothing says welcome to america like revoking someone's visa! Also, lily's concert tix are already hard enough to come by- if she cancels then next tour will probl. sell out faster as she releases some new tunes..
Pinkie Von Bloom, she who works in immigration, just sent me the following...
Note to Lily Allen:
US Immigration and Nationality Act - INA Sec 221(i), Revocation of Visas
(i) After the issuance of a visa or other documentation to any alien, the consular officer or the Secretary of State may at any time, in his discretion, revoke such visa or other documentation. Notice of such revocation shall be communicated to the Attorney General, and such revocation shall invalidate the visa or other documentation from the date of issuance: Provided, That carriers or transportation companies, and masters, commanding officers, agents, owners, charterers, or consignees, shall not be penalized under section 273(b) for action taken in reliance on such visas or other documentation, unless they received due notice of such revocation prior to the alien's embarkation. 3/ There shall be no means of judicial review (including review pursuant to section 2241 of title 28, United States Code, or any other habeas corpus provision, and sections 1361 and 1651 of such title) of a revocation under this subsection, except in the context of a removal proceeding if such revocation provides the sole ground for removal under section 237(a)(1)(B).
And she probably mouthed off to the USCIS inspector as well.
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