Hong Kong airline forces woman to take a pregnancy test

A Hong Kong aircraft forced a Japanese woman to take a pregnancy test previously enabling her on a trip to a Pacific island famous with moms looking for US citizenship for their infants.

Midori Nishida, 25, was accompanied to an open can at Hong Kong air terminal and advised to pee on a strip in November before being conceded authorisation to load up her Hong Kong Express trip to the US region of Saipan.

She had proclaimed in a survey at registration that she was not pregnant but rather carrier staff, all things considered, mentioned she experiences a "fit-to-fly" appraisal intended for ladies with body size or shape taking after a pregnant lady.

The test outcome came up negative.

"It was exceptionally mortifying and baffling," Nishida told the Wall Street Journal.

She experienced childhood with Saipan and her family have lived on the island for over 20 years.

The aircraft apologised to Nishida and said the training had been ceased when reached by AFP.

"We have quickly suspended the training while we survey it. We prefer to apologise for the trouble caused," the carrier said in an announcement.

Hong Kong Express said it had taken "activity on flights to Saipan from February 2019 to help guarantee US movement laws were not being undermined", in light of concerns raised by the island's specialists.

"We perceive the huge concerns this training has caused," it said.

Saipan is a well-known goal for ladies needing to conceive an offspring on US soil to verify American citizenship for their youngster.

In 2018 about 600 children were destined to visitors in the Northern Mariana Islands, which sit only north of Guam, likewise a US domain - a figure more prominent than the number of infants destined to local people.

Of those somewhere in the range of 575 were destined to Chinese moms, as indicated by information from neighbourhood wellbeing specialists.

The deluge followed the presentation in 2009 of a visa-waiver program to pull in Chinese holidaymakers, a plan that made the islands the central US region where Chinese residents appreciate sans visa passage.

Be that as it may, as of late Saipan has ventured up measures to check birth the travel industry by expecting aircraft to complete screenings.