The court rejected my asylum plea four times because I looked like a Nigerian – Canada-based Ghanaian shares

Sabina Safo, a Ghanaian lady disclosed that her immigration judge rejected her asylum claims four times because she looked like a Nigerian and not a Ghanaian.

In a chat on Daily Hustle Worldwide, Sabina mentioned that she sought asylum a day after she arrived in Canada and was given a date to make her argument. However, the Canadian judge she met made the process tiresome for her.

“The woman (judge) said I do not look like a Ghanaian because she has Ghanaian friends and they are not like me. She said I may have stayed in Ghana and learned the language but I’m a Nigerian.

She postponed the hearing and I asked my parents to send my Ghanaian IDs to prove it. She took all of them and still insisted I’m a Nigerian and refused to approve my plea. I went to the hearing four times and still did not believe it.”

Sabina eventually fell pregnant and gave birth in Canada but the judge made the same judgement and refused her plea yet again. Sabina was served a deportation letter soon after she gave birth and began preparing towards it.

“I went to the immigration office on the appointed date and the judge told me that I have to return to Ghana but the child can stay because the child is Canadian. I fell ill and visited the hospital only to find out I was pregnant again,” she recounted.

According to her lawyer, her immigration status couldn’t change after a deportation letter had been served. Sabina sought help from a Canadian Member of Parliament and was eventually granted permission to stay three days before her deportation day.

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