Angela’s Story: Life in Canada, Immigration Struggles, and Marriage Realities
Angela, a Ghanaian living in Canada, appeared on SVTV Africa’s Daily Hustle Worldwide show, where she opened up about the challenges immigrants face. She revealed that many Ghanaian students applying for school visas to Canada often get denied. Some who enter with a visitor’s visa struggle to switch to a study permit, while others are forced to return home to apply properly. Those who seek asylum face another challenge: many copy and paste stories written by AI, making their claims suspicious and easy for authorities to detect.
Angela explained that asylum cases differ across Canadian cities. In Toronto, where the Ghanaian population is large, many people apply for asylum. But in other areas where Ghanaians are fewer, asylum applications are less common.
She also touched on why she now focuses more on discussing marriage issues online rather than immigration. According to her, marriage is destroying many men abroad. She narrated an encounter at an African market where she met a Ghanaian man walking barefoot because of a broken marriage. His wife had ended up in a care home, leaving him mentally unstable and homeless.
Angela stressed that the Canadian system often favors women in family disputes. Women can easily access grocery cards, financial assistance, and housing support, while men are usually left behind. She recounted stories of women receiving over $6,000 in support, spending some, saving some, and still being provided housing if they separate from their husbands. This, she said, has led to many separations in Canada.
She gave examples of men who regret marrying women from Ghana and bringing them abroad. One man, a graduate student, brought his church-going wife to Canada. Despite him struggling financially, she secured a work permit, learned a trade, and began earning well. Instead of supporting him, she left to rent her own house, refusing to return even when he begged. Another man complained that his nurse wife focused only on work, neglected her family duties, and even avoided intimacy for over two years.
Angela also told the story of a man who sponsored a woman he met on Facebook to Canada. He expected her to save for their future home but later discovered she never contributed and saw marriage only as a “bonus.”
She concluded that many men who travel back to Ghana to marry often lack education, while the educated women already in Canada are more independent. According to Angela, some men marry women from Ghana thinking they can control them, but abroad, women can access everything they need without relying on their husbands. This, she said, leads to constant fights, mistrust, and broken marriages.
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