A typo on a legal document has cost a Nigerian woman refugee status in Canada and she now faces deportation.

Ottawa overturned a decision to grant refugee status to Gift Daniel, 32, in part because of a misspelling of her name in a government birth document from Lagos, Nigeria. Gift Daniel, 32, now faces deportation from Canada at any time.

What was unusual with the government’s appeal, is immigration officials did not challenge Daniel’s 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.
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. She claimed she was forced to undergo female circumcision in 2012 and was sold by her father a year later to an older man who sexually, physically and psychologically abused her before she fled Nigeria with the help of a...

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