A Nigerian man, deemed to have entered a fraudulent marriage, was denied deportation relief due to temporary legal stays, upholding a 2020 order to remove him after 16 years in Ireland.

A Nigerian man who arrived in Ireland in 2009 and married a Latvian national in a relationship deemed a "marriage of convenience" has been ruled eligible for deportation after the Irish High Court rejected his latest legal challenge. The 44-year-old, whose residence card was revoked in 2016 due to fraud, argued he was undocumented from 2018 to 2022 and should qualify for a government scheme to regularize long-term undocumented residents. However, Justice Nessa Cahill ruled that temporary permissions to stay, granted at the Minister’s discretion, were valid and independent of the revoked card, meaning he was lawfully resident during the required period. This disqualifies him from the regularization scheme. The decision upholds a 2020 deportation order and clears the way for his removal to Nigeria after more than 16 years in Ireland.