Pamputtae gets back UK visa

Dancehall artiste Pamputtae is eager to make her long awaited return to the United Kingdom (UK) after receiving her UK visa recently, bringing an end to her 11-year absence from entertaining her fans there.

She was overjoyed and upbeat as she explained that her application was denied three times in the past but she is now committed to making up for lost time.

"Mi feel good say mi can go up go work and better myself and better mi family and help some people weh need help too. You know everybody have people who dem help and people who reach out to them, a just that me want fi work and better myself and get more bigger and better," she said. The entertainer also said that she wants to spread her music, and love all over the world.

"It's a great great feeling because you done know a [British] pound dat,enuh, and the people dem wah see Pamputtae. A years dem no see me so dem wah see mi again. Mi feel good, it's a good feeling," she said.

Pamputtae explained that her visa issue started due to a clerical error.

"At the time my work permit was expired. But a friend of mine put me on a flyer for an event he was hosting, advertising that I was coming to the event to perform. I had no intentions of working, I was just attending the event to show support. But them (US representatives) seh a work me a go work," she said.

She explained her visa was revoked while at the airport trying to enter the US, and she was sent home.

"A nuh like me do nothing bad. A just simple mistake. That's why me haffi learn from it," she said. Pamputtae further explained that a travel agent she was working with put incorrect information on her UK visa application form which lead to the document being denied/revoked.

"With England, they ask you specifically if you ever have anything cancelled before. And I tell her (the travel agent) yes, my US visa get cancel. But she put no. So that cause a problem with England," she said.

"So basically now when she put the wrong thing, a it dem deny mi for. Dem a think mi telling a lie," she said. She further explained that this resulted in a ban. That ban resulted in her multiple denials.

"So yuh just haffi wait until the time then yuh free up," she said. "So that was the problem but mi finally good yah now."

She is set to appear at ENRG Fest on October 29 with Queenie Ladi Gangstaat Chak 89 in London.

Recently, veteran dancehall artiste Bounty Killer also received his UK visa after a number of years without one.