Stressed about your wages and rights at work? Is your permit expiring? Worried about permanent residency?
You’re not alone!Federal & provincial immigration programs are cut in half. By the end of 2025, more than 1.2 million permits expire.
Former international students and migrants are being laid off. Employers are using immigration cuts as an excuse to push down working conditions for everyone. Sign up to get information about immigration options and what your union or organization can do to ensure rights for all workers.
What do you need to know about the upcoming Immigration Levels Plan, the federal budget and long immigration processing times? Are there more raids? What about expiring permits? How does all this impact you?
Join November’s Migrant Assembly to discuss all these updates and hear how migrants like you are taking action to fight the cuts. This assembly is led by migrants – don’t get scammed by immigration consultants and other people who want to make money off of our struggles by spreading misinformation.
Are you a migrant? This is our chance to speak up for our rights and status for all!
Do you support migrants? March with migrants and help share our message!
What is this? Migrants are joining a big march on September 20 to Draw the Line for People, Peace and the Planet. Many groups will march together – Indigenous people, workers, climate activists, and anti-war groups. Migrants will be leading the march with Indigenous people. Join us to show how migrants are in solidarity with others, and to share migrant demands.
Details:
September 20 at 2pm
Yonge and Dundas, Toronto
Wear RED clothes
Look for the “Status for All” banner
Why join? When we march as migrants, we show our struggles and our strength. We teach other people about what migrants face. Together with other groups fighting for justice, our voices become much stronger and louder. No one can win, until all of us win.
Even if you joined us at the Toronto in-person gathering, come to this meeting.
On August 17, 2025, join the emergency MWAC Member’s Assembly Rosalind is deported, our homes and workplaces are unbearably hot, and anti-immigrant racism is everywhere.
The federal government is consulting on future immigration plans. Bad anti-migrant laws like Bill C-2, and others may be passed when Parliament returns from holidays in September.
Join the Emergency Meeting to hear about the government’s plans, to hold each other close, make strategic plans about MWAC needs to do in the near future, and renew your membership (if you haven’t already).
This is an emergency assembly for new and existing members ONLY, and you will hear new updates, including about a massive global day of action on September 20 – so join even if you already attended the Toronto in-person gathering.
UPDATE: Since we’re dealing with colder weather than anticipated, we’re now meeting indoors at a cafe nearby! Join us at Snakes & Lattes at 3pm for some hot chocolate.
📍Snakes and Lattes – https://maps.app.goo.gl/Xixe8uUvK4JY6c2MA
🕒 May 25 at 3pm
International students! Spring is finally here, the semester is over, and now we’re onto the next struggle: finding jobs and building our lives in Canada. Let’s hang out – come for a picnic in the park and meet with others like you. Bring your friends and family!
Food, music, games and a discussion about what our future holds when it comes to immigration and dignity at work.
This picnic is planned by international students in Migrant Students United chapters at Seneca College and George Brown College.
PGWP workers with expired and expiring permits are uniting on an (1) electoral strategy, and (2) Solutions, not Scapegoats media strategy. Read more about the strategy, political opportunities below, and join the fight for immigration justice!
Our plan of action
We have a joint media and electoral strategy to respond to the political moment we’re in. We must create political pressure, and shift the public narrative that is blaming migrants and international students for the housing and job crisis.
🔹 Electoral Strategy: On April 28, 2025, there will be a federal election. We’ll push candidates in our ridings to take a stand on permit renewals and increasing permanent residency programs.
🔹 “Solutions, Not Scapegoats” Media Campaign: We’ll share our stories to challenge the narrative that immigrants are to blame for economic issues.
Our Political Opportunities
✅ Using the elections to push on immigration justice: The federal elections are April 28, 2025. From now until then, candidates from political parties want to win a seat in their riding. We need a coordinated strategy that is effective on multiple levels, and scale our power up. Candidates will be doing campaign events in each of our ridings, like townhalls, all-candidate debates and more. We are part of their constituent base, even though we cannot vote. We can raise how cuts to immigration hurt all working people in the country, have knock-on effects on the economy and communities, and demand they take a stand on immigration justice.
✅ Exposing contradictions: More and more, working-class Canadians must realize we are not the problem, and that cuts to immigration hurt them too. Many critical sectors like education, healthcare and childcare, are already falling apart because so many of us have to leave jobs when our permits expire. Employers are also using this as an excuse to layoff other workers and lower standards for all of us.
✅ Building unity: We have support from allies in major unions, healthcare and immigration organizations, who know that racism and xenophobia are not the answer. More will recognize this is a shared fight.
We can bring in more of our coworkers, friends, and neighbours. We need both unity and strength in numbers.
Every day, 3,000 permits expire—we can’t afford to stay silent.
The issue and why it’s happening
Our permits are expired / expiring, the requirements for Express Entry programs are restrictive, the minimum cut off scores have been high and the draws for Canadian Experience Class are infrequent. Category-based selection has also let the government cherrypick who gets permanent residency and who doesn’t.
We’re impacted by the massive cuts to permanent residency programs. Provincial programs have been cut by 55%. Some streams of PNP are closing overnight, and they’re suddenly saying our jobs no longer qualify. They want us to fight and compete with each other. But permanent residency and our rights should not be like the hunger games.
We’re in a global economic crisis. At the same time, some people – politicians, corporate employers and landlords – are making record-breaking profits, while the majority of us are struggling to make ends meet. They need somebody to blame. Over the last 18 months, migrants have been scapegoated for the housing crisis, taking jobs, lowering wages and working conditions, causing inflation – this is simply not true. Racism and xenophobia are meant to divide and distract us.
Public opinion on immigration has shifted. In response, the federal government walked back on promises and instead cut permits and immigration, which adds to more scapegoating. It’s a vicious cycle. But when our rights are under attack, we must fight back.
📣 On March 7, 2025, the federal government said 6,000 undocumented construction workers across the country may be able to apply for permanent residency, but no key details, dates or even confirmation of a program has been announced.
☑️ Sign up now to receive free and legitimate updates as soon as we know. Don’t pay money to immigration consultants who spread false information to take your money.
🤐 Your information will be kept confidential and used only to keep you informed. If elections happen, they may walk back on their promise, so let’s hold the government accountable and fight for a program that leaves no one behind. Stay updated – and share with your friends.
Actualización sobre el Programa de Inmigración para Tabajadores de la Construcción Indocumentados – ¡Obtén Información!
📣 El 7 de marzo de 2025, el gobierno federal anunció que 6,000 trabajadores de la construcción indocumentados en todo el país podrán solicitar la residencia permanente. Sin embargo, no se han publicado detalles clave ni fechas, incluyendo los requisitos y quiénes serán incluidos.
☑️ ¡Regístrate ahora para recibir las últimas actualizaciones sobre el programa tan pronto como se anuncien! Compartiremos información gratuita y legítima contigo: no pagues dinero a consultores de inmigración codiciosos que difunden información falsa para aprovecharse de ti.
🤐 Tu información será tratada de forma confidencial y se usará únicamente para mantenerte informado. Juntos, hagamos que el gobierno rinda cuentas y luchemos por un programa que no deje a nadie atrás. Mantente informado: ¡regístrate hoy!
