Why, then, was he in 2006 refused re-entry to the US after a teaching spell in Yemen?
Jennifer Housen, an immigration lawyer in Kingston who has helped members of the Windrush generation who were refused re-entry to the UK after holidays in Jamaica, said she had dealt with about 30 cases in the past eight years.
Thirty-five cases have been registered as a result, mostly involving people who believe they were wrongly refused re-entry to the UK, despite having spent most of their lives there, after a trip to Jamaica for a holiday or funeral.
4. July 2010, refused re-entry to Kuwait: Emwazi returns to the UK once more for a couple of days.
4. July 2010, refused re-entry to Kuwait: after two more months in Kuwait, Emwazi decides to return home once more for a couple of days.
The punishments for such crimes are severe, and include heavy fines, imprisonment ranging from three to fifteen months, and repatriation: for those arrested in police crackdowns for immigration offences, there is the possibility that they can be repatriated without trial, "blacklisted" and refused re-entry to Hong Kong [ 7].
Moves by the Australian government to use character grounds to refuse re-entry to bikies and their associates who are non-citizens when they travel overseas have been under way for several years.
Often those who do attend are refused re-entry.The regime tends to tighten the screws when it feels edgy.
Drummer Robert Wyatt recalled how he "went out the back for a quick fag" before the set and was refused re-entry by door security, despite his insistence that "I've got to play in there".
Violators could be fined, refused re-entry into the United States or possibly deported, officials said.
4 Any EU national sleeping rough or begging will be deported and refused re-entry for 12 months "unless they can prove they have a job".
