Appeal: Decision and Daniel

appeal: Gift Daniel, 32, now faces deportation from Canada at any time, according to Metro News. What was unusual with the government appeal is immigration officials did not challenge Daniel claim that she was a victim of female genital mutilation and domestic abuse, but contested her credibility on the grounds that she is not who she claims to be. In a rare appeal case, Ottawa has overturned a decision to grant refugee status to a Nigerian woman, in part because of a misspelling of her name in a government birth document from Lagos. I have never seen or heard of a positive decision overturned completely by the refugee appeal division, where the pressing concern was on the identity and not on the merits of the decision, said Daniel lawyer, Richard Wazana. Daniel, a hairstylist from Benin, arrived in Canada in February 2015 using a false Canadian passport under the name of Desiree Dobson and filed an asylum claim upon landing at Pearson International Airport. They did not question the forced marriage, abuse and violence. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.