Key legal question
Admissibility of the federal complaint and whether the request sought family reunification or only provisional admission
Extracted holding
The complaint was at least doubtful in admissibility because the prayers and reasoning aimed at provisional admission and non-removal, a remedy excluded from federal complaint review; the court left admissibility open and dismissed the complaint in any event.
Extracted reasoning
Although marriage to a settled spouse could in principle ground a residence claim under former ANAG Art. 17(2), the actual submissions targeted health-based provisional admission and waiver of removal, which fall under the statutory exclusion clauses.