A Federal Court judge has temporarily stopped the deportation of a man from India over Ottawa’s handling of health concerns by his Canadian wife who has ADHD, and financial problems his departure would cause his sister.

Jagjit Singh, a citizen of India, came to Canada in 2021 on a temporary resident visa and made a refugee claim for asylum. While that claim was being processed, he met a Canadian woman, in November 2024, and married her the following January.

The woman, identified only by the initials L.B., in the court decision, submitted a spousal sponsorship for her new husband to become a permanent resident of Canada a couple of weeks later, after which he withdrew his refugee claim.

While one arm of the immigration system was processing the spousal sponsorship, another arm was deali

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