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There is no appeal. As a result, Nahal’s new wife and daughter are likely to make a compassionate humanitarian application to remain in the family home in Edmonton, according to their lawyer Richard Kurland. Otherwise, they will have to leave Canada.

Gurpreet Kaur, 34, is a citizen of India, who entered Canada as a temporary foreign worker in 2013, on a permit that expired last year. Now she is a homemaker and mother.

Young men do wild and crazy things, but over the last almost 20 years, there were just two marriages

She had known Nahal since 2008, but only met in person in 2012, while he was still married to his fourth wife, court records show. In 2014, when he was separated, they began living together, and they married a month after his divorce was finalized in 2015. A month after that, she applied for permanent residency. In 2016, she gave birth to their daughter.

Last year, her application was refused, on the grounds that she had failed to establish, on a balance of probabilities, that their marriage is genuine and was not entered into primarily for immigration purposes.

“There are concerns regarding the sponsor’s immigration history as he has a pattern of sponsoring Indian nationals under the family class category and filing federal court appeals on previous officers’ refusals,” an immigration officer decided.

The officer also noted Nahal had cheated on his previous wives, and his divorce decisions indicate they were based partly on grounds of adultery, mental cruelty, and financial disputes.

“The thing is that people change, and young men do wild and crazy things, but over the last almost 20 years, there were just two marriages, one of 12 years and one of 7-8 years. And he only has had one child in his lifetime and that’s the one with this lady (Kaur),” Kurland said. “It’s really different. At first blush, it appears like a serial marriage, and always looking to bring people into Canada. But if you’re married to someone for 12 years, come on…”