tom hanks son Chet Hanks It was revealed that he was stranded in Colombia because he did not have a U.S. passport. The “Run” actor shared his ordeal in an Instagram video.
“Are you ready for a story?” Chet said in the video, adding that he went Puerto Rico Last week he attended a “birthday party at Max’s house” where he “had a great time.”
He added that he then decided to take a detour to Medellín to visit a friend named Taylor.
“Sounds good, right?” he said. “We’ll check it out.”
Wearing a black Los Angeles Dodgers cap, black shirt and heavy chain-link necklace, Chet explained how things can get stressful quickly.
“I’m stuck in Medellin”
Chet, tom hanks Rita Wilson’s son explained: “I travel with a Greek passport because I am a dual citizen.”
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He said he didn’t use his U.S. passport because it was about to expire and “sometimes they don’t let you into the country even though it hasn’t expired but it’s about to expire.”
“I went to the airport to check in [for] My flight was moved up three hours,” he added. “It was an international flight. They told me that if I used a foreign passport, I would need a green card to return to the United States. “
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Chet, 35, went on to explain that he “doesn’t have a green card because I’m a U.S. citizen,” so he’s “effectively stuck in Colombia. I’m stuck in Medellin.”
“Of course there are worse places to be stuck, but I really don’t know what I’m going to do, and the only embassy that solves this problem is in Bogota,” he added.
Chet also said he “didn’t want to go to Bogota,” which is about an hour’s flight from Medellin, “so he let me go.”
