Snoop Dogg may finally be granted UK visa
February 24 2010 by Liam Clifford
The rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg will find out whether he is able to fulfil UK obligations.
US rapper Snoop Dogg is
due to receive a decision on his UK visa application within weeks. After an
altercation with police at Heathrow Airport four years ago, Snoop Dogg (real
name Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr) was banned from the country. His lawyers are
now trying to get the decision reversed.
At the time of the dispute,
Broadus was only in the UK to catch a flight to South Africa. When he was due to
enter the UK on a UK visa a year later to perform and to speak at an event
discouraging young people from getting involved in gang violence, he was denied
the UK visa because of the 2006 "fracas" and other factors.
UK
immigration authorities enforced a rule which allows them to ban "undesirables",
citing not only the police caution, but also the rapper's chequered past, which
included US convictions and recent charges for possession of firearms and
drugs.
Broadus appealed the decision and in January 2008 a judge
overturned the UK visa ban, saying there was no evidence Broadus had been
responsible for public disorder. The judge even commented that the scuffle in
the airport, which occurred after the rapper and his entourage were refused
entry to a first-class lounge, was "precipitated by decisions made by BA staff
and the police".
The controversial rapper has also experienced
difficulties securing an Australian visa: the immigration officials in that
country once famously dubbed him "not the sort of bloke we want in this
country".
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