Father of five’s deportation order from Edmonton delayed 6 months

A father of five who was scheduled to be deported Monday has been granted a six-month extension, according to the Alberta Somali Community Centre.

Yusuf Mohamed from Somalia was to be deported from Edmonton the day after Father’s Day.

That deportation was delayed until December, Habiba Abdulle with the ASCC told CityNews via email Sunday.

Last week Mohamed said he was confused and frustrated at the country’s second attempt to deport him.

In 2018, the federal immigration minister stayed Mohamed’s deportation to allow time for spousal sponsorship. Five years later, the family says that sponsorship is still processing.

Mohamed has spent the last decade in Canada trying to prove his identity as a Somali refugee to the government. The matter was complicated because the deportation notice is in the name of a Kenyan passport he says is falsified.

He bought it in a refugee camp and used it to travel to Canada in 2013 to reunite with his wife and – at the time – two children.

Mohamed has a work permit until the end of the year.

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A change.org petition to the Canadian government asking to stop Mohamed’s deportation had nearly 40,000 signatures by Sunday afternoon.

—With files from Carly Robinson