A Wuhan student who recently returned to China was accidentally informed that her Chinese Passport was no longer valid when she boarded her flight. After arriving in China, the Chinese immigration office said that after the outbreak last year, Hubei cancelled her passport because they could not contact her. The student said she had left the country on New Year’s Day last year and that the closure of Wuhan after more than 20 days was believed to be the result of the “one-size-fits-all” policy implemented during that Time.
“I have been holding an invalid passport but did not know”, said Miss Li, who lives in a city around Wuhan, her Chinese passport will expire only in 2025, after completing her studies locally, and recently spent a lot of money to buy a direct flight to Shanghai in early February, but nearly could not board the plane, “there is a country can not I can’t go back”.
“The check-in counter did not show my passport, and customs did not scan my personal information,” said Ms. Li, who was stopped for questioning at the time of departure, “they suspected me of impersonating someone else, or boarding with a fake passport. I argued, and was finally released.”
Ms. Li said she was puzzled and distracted throughout the flight, “just landed in Shanghai, the in-flight radio called my name,” she was asked to be the first off the plane, and after a nucleic acid test, went to the immigration office to check their identity.
“First they asked me if I had ever lost my passport, which I denied. Then they asked me or my Family if I was ‘in business,'” Ms. Li said, adding that the questioning made her suspect that her family had done illegal credit and was on China’s “integrity blacklist,” so she rushed to the phone to ask. “The family said no such thing.”
After a few minutes, the truth came out that Miss Li’s passport was cancelled by the Hubei Immigration Bureau after the outbreak last year, “they gave the argument that they tried to contact me at the time, but did not succeed”, for the reason, Miss Li was not convinced, “Shanghai Immigration also said that you go Home and then a new passport,” and cut off the “old” passport, which had four years to expire on the spot.
Miss Li said indignantly that the Hubei side could not contact her because she had left the country as early as New Year’s Day last year, when the new coronavirus in China was not officially announced, “late before the outbreak of several cases of confirmed cases also the same period in the Tianhe Airport transit, thought to feel afraid.”
Ms. Li is not in the city during the closure of the illegal “escape”, the authorities never contacted her family for confirmation, “they are just a sweeping, perfunctory, or to shirk responsibility.”
“It turns out that for more than a year, I was a person with no status overseas. The beloved hometown has treated me like this,” Ms. Li lamented, “I clearly remember a scene when my family talked about ‘pneumonia’ on Dec. 28, 2019, and my uncle said he heard that the central government had sent down a team of experts, and my mother retorted that that had been disproved. “
After 3 days, Miss Li’s plane took off; after 23 days, Zhong Nanshan admitted for the first time that ‘the virus was passed from person to person’; after 26 days, Wuhan was closed to the public.
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