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Watch full video; https://youtube.com/watch?v=_W10cOvK4Xk&si=YHTnvQbgdjl25utN
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We are migrant care workers, just like you, and we are here to make sure caregivers get real, trustworthy information—without scams or delays.

The federal government has announced the new Caregiver Program will open on March 31, 2025—something we have fought for years! But the details haven’t been released yet, and greedy consultants are already spreading false information to take your money.

Click here for more information;
https://migrantworkersalliance.org/cw2025/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3vX30Wm4jWFlmNnGOMSZWjujIVXXnw3fjI08Z27E0WaxdUovq3hCML9tk_aem_kdw7rCrpC9Kq9-asqT5PrA

On March 14, 2025, Canada witnessed a seismic shift in its political landscape as newly sworn-in Prime Minister Mark Carney made a major change to his cabinet: Immigration Minister Marc Miller was axed from the cabinet.
Replacing him is Rachel Bendayan, a rising star in the Liberal Party, signaling a bold attempt to reshape the government’s image amid swirling controversies and skyrocketing public discontent over immigration policies.
This dramatic cabinet reshuffle, announced during Carney’s inauguration, has set tongues wagging and sparked fierce debate across the nation.

With anti-immigration sentiment surging and international education stakeholders reeling from Miller’s turbulent tenure, Bendayan’s appointment has ignited hope—and skepticism.
Could this be the reset the country desperately needs, or is it just political theater? Let’s dive into the details of this jaw-dropping move and what it means for the Canadian future.

What’s Next for Canada’s Immigration Future? 

Mark Carney Takes the Helm: A Fresh Face with a Bold Vision Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, officially stepped into the role of the Canadian Prime Minister on March 14, 2025, following a landslide victory in the Liberal leadership race on March 10.

Known for his financial wizardry and global clout, Carney is a relative outsider to the gritty world of Canadian politics—a fact that many Liberal voters found refreshing after years of Justin Trudeau’s leadership.
Trudeau, who exited the stage amid strained relations with the U.S. relations and Donald Trump’s looming trade war, left behind a sprawling 37-member cabinet that included his close ally, Marc Miller.

Carney wasted no time slashing that number to a leaner 24-member team, dropping several Trudeau loyalists—including Miller—in a move that’s being hailed as a “rebrand” of the Liberal government.
“We are changing how things work, so our government can deliver to Canadians faster,” Carney declared during his swearing-in ceremony. “Our team is united, strong, and ready to meet this moment.”
​But with only three new faces in the cabinet, critics wonder: Is this really a fresh start, or just a reshuffling of the same old deck?

Marc Miller’s Exit: The End of a Controversial Era

Miller experienced a turbulent tenure as Immigration Minister.
Trudeau appointed Miller, who quickly became a target for criticism as Canada grappled with a housing crisis, an increase in temporary workers, and a backlash against international students.
Over the past 14 months, he rolled out a slew of polarizing policies—often announced late on Friday afternoons, much to the chagrin of stakeholders.
Study permit caps, reduced post-graduate work opportunities, and stricter recruitment rules for international students caused significant disruptions in the Canadian higher education sector, establishing Miller as a symbol of chaos.
“Miller rode a wave of negative sentiment that made Canada feel increasingly unwelcoming,” says Matthew McDonald, a prominent Canadian immigration lawyer, in an exclusive interview.
“His policies created a sense of instability for international students and their families.”

Against this backdrop, Miller’s ousting feels like a deliberate signal from Carney: the Liberal government is ready to turn the page.
However, Miller was more than just a policy expert; he served as Trudeau’s trusted advisor and represented the traditional leadership.
His removal, alongside other Trudeau stalwarts, underscores Carney’s intent to distance himself from his predecessor’s legacy.
Yet, with Carney’s own statements hinting at continuity on immigration—think housing prioritization and reduced temporary workers—some wonder if Bendayan will simply be Miller 2.0.

Rachel Bendayan Steps Up: Who Is Canada’s New Immigration Minister?

Enter Rachel Bendayan, the woman tasked with steering the Canadian immigration ship through choppy waters.
Previously the Minister of Official Languages and Associate Minister of Public Safety, Bendayan brings a robust resume to the table.
Elected to Parliament in 2019 as the first Canadian of Moroccan descent to serve in the federal government, she’s no stranger to breaking barriers.
Now, as one of 11 female ministers in Carney’s cabinet, Bendayan is poised to make history again—this time at the helm of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).
Bendayan’s legal background and technocratic approach have analysts buzzing. “She’s likely to maintain the IRCC’s methodical, policy-driven style,” McDonald predicts.
“But her role as Official Languages Minister suggests she’ll double down on promoting French-language pathways for permanent residency—a key priority for Quebec and francophone communities.”

This blend of pragmatism and cultural sensitivity could be the secret sauce Canada needs to repair its fractured immigration narrative.
International education stakeholders, battered by Miller’s erratic reforms, are cautiously optimistic.
“My hope is that Minister Bendayan brings a more positive spirit to the immigration conversation,” McDonald adds. “Canada’s story—past, present, and future—is an immigration story. She has a chance to reclaim that legacy.”

Why This Shake-Up Matters: Immigration at a Crossroads.

The Canadian immigration system has been under a microscope in recent years, with public opinion souring amid a housing shortage and economic pressures.
The current Immigration Levels Plan aims to shrink the temporary resident population—including students and workers—to 5% of the Canadian population by 2027.
Miller’s hardline measures aligned with this goal, but they also alienated key sectors like higher education, which relies heavily on international tuition fees.
Carney has been vocal about tackling the housing crisis and prioritizing permanent residency for those already in Canada, hinting at a tempered approach to temporary foreign workers.
While he hasn’t explicitly targeted international students, his past critiques of universities’ “over-reliance” on foreign enrollment—coupled with calls for more postsecondary funding—suggest a nuanced shift could be on the horizon.
Bendayan inherits this tightrope. Can she balance economic realities with Canada’s reputation as a welcoming destination?
“This is an existential moment,” McDonald warns. “She has the opportunity to redefine Canada’s identity as a nation built by immigrants.”

The Bigger Picture: Carney vs. Trump and the Road Ahead.

Carney’s ascension comes at a pivotal time. With Donald Trump’s trade war heating up south of the border, U.S.-Canada relations are on edge.
Trudeau’s exit and Carney’s arrival mark a strategic pivot as the country braces for economic turbulence.
A streamlined cabinet and a new immigration minister could signal to the world—and to Canadians—that the Liberal government is ready to adapt.

The next federal election, slated for October 2025, looms large. Speculation is rife that Carney might call a snap election before Parliament reconvenes on March 24, capitalizing on his honeymoon period.
Bendayan’s early moves at IRCC will be under intense scrutiny as voters weigh the Liberals’ promises against their track record.

What’s Next for Canada’s Immigration Future?

For now, all eyes are on Rachel Bendayan. Will she soften Miller’s hard edges and restore faith in the Canadian immigration system?
Or will she stick to the script, tweaking rather than transforming? Stakeholders in international education, from university presidents to immigration lawyers, are holding their breath.
Meanwhile, everyday Canadians—frustrated by housing woes and economic uncertainty—want answers.
One thing’s clear: this cabinet shake-up is more than a personnel swap. It’s a high-stakes gamble to redefine the Liberal brand and chart a new course for Canada.
Whether it pays off remains to be seen, but the drama unfolding in Ottawa is guaranteed to keep the nation—and the world—watching.
Mark Carney’s choice to replace Marc Miller with Rachel Bendayan as Immigration Minister possesses all the elements of a viral sensation: intrigue, strategic maneuvers, and a nation poised for transformation.



Kamal Deep Singh, RCIC

Kamal Deep Singh, RCIC (Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant) licensed by CICC (formerly known as ICCRC) with member number R708618. He brings extensive knowledge of immigration law and new changes to rapidly evolving IRCC.

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Stop the Scapegoating: Screen This Video, Spread The Truth. 
Migrants Are Not to Blame for Canada’s Housing & Affordability Crisis: Politicians and the media are blaming migrants for Canada’s housing and affordability crisis — but the truth is very different. Corporate landlords, real estate speculation, and government policies are driving up housing costs and lowering wages — not migrants. This powerful video from The Breach exposes how scapegoating migrants serves to distract from the real causes of the crisis — and why we need to unite and ensure real solutions for everyone.
Migrants Are Up Against A Massive Disinformation & Division Network. We Need Your Support: Blaming migrants is dangerous — it fuels division, racism, and harmful policies that hurt both migrants and citizen working class people. But conversations change minds — and minds change policy. Showing this video and leading a thoughtful discussion will help people understand the real causes of the housing crisis, push back against harmful narratives, and start building collective power for real solutions.  

Watch the full video:https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CMHrBJfz8/?mibextid=69CR2R

​As of June 17, 2024 , The Home Child Care Provider Pilot and the Home Support Worker Pilot ended and closed. 
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada are no longer accepting new applications but will continue to process application they received on or before this date. 

The Home Child Care Provider Pilot and the Home Support Worker Pilot are 5-year pilot programs that let qualified caregivers and their family members come to Canada with the goal of becoming permanent residents.If you’ve been offered a job in Canada as a caregiver or have experience working in Canada as a caregiver, you may be able to apply for permanent residence through one of these pilots.
The application process will be different depending on your situation and how much qualifying work experience you have.
Qualifying work experienceQualifying work experience means you’ve worked full-time in Canada in 1 of these National Occupational Classification (NOC) jobs:
Home child care provider (NOC 44100)

• You must care for children in your own home or in your employer’s private home.
  • The location can’t be an institutional setting such as a daycare.
• You don’t need to live in your employer’s home to qualify.
• Experience as a foster parent doesn’t count.

Home support worker (NOC 44101)

• You must care for someone who needs help from a home support worker in your employer’s private home.
  • The location can’t be an institutional setting such as a nursing home.
• You don’t need to live in your employer’s home to qualify.

Here are the New changes to the pilots.
Updated June 24, 2024
These changes are now in effect and apply to all applications being processed:

• You only need 6 months of work experience, instead of 12, to qualify.
• For the Gaining experience category, we’ll accept eligible work experience
  • from inside or outside Canada
  • gained anytime between the 36-month period before you submitted your permanent residence application and the date you provide proof of work experience

If you already applied to the Gaining experience category and now have enough eligible work experience, you can send us proof.
Less than 12 months in Canada
If you’ve never worked full-time as a caregiver in Canada or have less than 12 months of work experience, you can apply to the Gaining experience category.
12 months or more in Canada
If you’ve worked full-time as a caregiver in Canada for 12 months or more in the last 36 months, you can apply to the Direct to permanent residence category.

For more information please visit IRCC website :

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/caregivers/child-care-home-support-worker.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR10zV4te0ZneTdu

 

​Today, Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced new, upgraded caregiver pilots that will allow caregivers to continue coming to Canada while they work to make the caregiver pilot programs permanent.
The new pilot programs will grant home care professionals permanent residency (PR) as soon as they arrive in Canada.
They will also be able to work with organizations that provide temporary or part-time care to those who are semi-independent or recovering from an injury or illness.
This new method enables caregivers to more easily find suitable work with reputable companies and gain clear, uncomplicated access to permanent resident status on-arrival in Canada.

Candidates interested in working in Canada’s home care sector will be able to apply under these new pilot programs if they match the following criteria:

• a minimum of level 4 in English or French proficiency based on the Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB)
• Education level equivalent to Canadian high school diploma
• have latest relevant work experience
• have a full-time job offer in home care

Miller confirmed that the pilot is expected to be launched by the end of fall 2024 or, at the latest, in early 2025.
These new PR on arrival pilot initiatives represent a significant step forward in Canada’s attempts to fulfill the changing home care demands of its varied population.
More information will be available prior to the pilots’ official launch, including full eligibility requirements and application instructions.

For full details please visit  : https://immigrationnewscanada.ca/new-canada-caregivers-pilots-marc-miller/   

Spring is coming, the snow will melt, let’s get ready. Mark your calendars for March 16-17, 2024, as we launch Migrant Spring! 
Even in spring, working people are too worried about paying our bills to stop and smell the flowers. And we are being divided, the richest few are blaming immigrants for rising costs. But migrants live here, we have deep roots, we grow and care for our communities and are excluded from basic rights. Together, this Migrant Spring, join us to unite against racism and win equality and permanent resident status for all. 
Attend Actions: Actions are confirmed in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver and more will be added soon. RSVP on this page.
Organize in Your Community: Organize an event in your own community. You can organize pickets at MP offices, letter-writing, forums and community gatherings. Register your event on this page or email us at [email protected] if you want to talk through ideas. 
Part of an organization? Endorse and support by clicking here. 
MIGRANT SPRING

• Immigration Minister Marc Miller promised to bring regularization to the Cabinet in the Spring. Let’s hold him to his word and ensure it means permanent resident status for all undocumented people, no exceptions. 
• The clock is ticking for migrant care worker programs expiring on June 17. Without replacement, thousands of racialized migrant women who take care of children, sick, and elderly face deportation or may become undocumented. Already, many are denied permanent residency because of unfair language testing and education accreditation requirements. This Spring, win justice for care workers.
• Landlords are raising our rents beyond reach, grocery monopolies are making it harder to put food on our tables, bad governments are privatizing healthcare and education. They are scapegoating immigrants because racism is a strategy to divide and distract us. This Spring, push back against xenophobia and hold those responsible accountable. 

Migrant Spring is about more than just one weekend of action—it’s the next the next step in our fight for equality, justice, #StatusforAll and #UniteAgainstRacism. Migrant Spring is a series of protests, educational activities and actions leading up to summer 2024, and beyond! 
This Migrant Spring, let’s reject division, poverty and inequality. Together, we will cultivate a future where everyone can thrive.

For more information visit:  https://migrantrights.ca
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The Home Child Care Pilot and Home Support Worker Pilot Programs will expire on June 17, 2024! If you have not applied for permanent residence yet – you will be affected! 
Caregivers: Join the urgent online meeting on February 24, 2024 at 8pm in Ontario / 5pm in British Columbia / 6pm in Alberta to find out your options and what we need to do to make sure you and other caregivers still have options. 
Many caregivers cannot apply for permanent resident status because we are unable to get high language scores or get our education accredited. If the program closes, we may be on work permits forever, renewing them year after year, separated from our families. We will be in a crisis! 
But there is still time! We can make a change if we move together and quickly! 
Register for the meeting now to find out how we can change the rules and make sure all caregivers get permanent resident status. 
Please register here:
https://migrantrights.ca/ events/caregiverassembly/

Let us invite all care workers we know to register and attend an online Care Worker Assembly on Saturday, February 24, 2024 at  8pm in Ontario / 5pm in British Columbia / 6pm in Alberta  


This online Zoom assembly is for foreign care workers to talk about the expiring immigration caregiver program - the Home Child Care Provider Pilot and the Home Support Worker Pilot - and their experiences under the program. 

So please help us reach and invite as many foreign care workers as possible, especially those who are still under the program and/or those who lost their immigration status because of the unfair requirements of the program. 

Why You Should Attend:

• Tell Your Story: The meeting will be a place for you to express your challenges and difficulties. We all have stories, and this is a chance to tell yours.
• Get Support: Learn what you can do to prepare for the program expiring. 
• Stay Informed: Get updates about what the government is planning and what we can do. 
• Make a Difference: When we act together and speak up, we can make the government give rights to all of us. Let’s make sure we all get permanent resident status. 

Let’s stand together and make our voices heard!
Please don’t forget to register here:
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https://migrantrights.ca/ events/caregiverassembly/ 

​Today, Canada announced a new pilot program under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program to address the ongoing labour shortage in the country.
The announcement is by Randy Boissonnault, the Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages in Delta, British Columbia

Canada launches a new Recognized Employer Pilot (REP) that will expedite access to labour for eligible Canadian employers while maintaining the highest standards for worker protections.
This will be a 3-year pilot program beginning next month, in September 2023, that will make it easy for employers to get an LMIA.

What is the new Recognized Employer Pilot program

The Recognized Employer Pilot (REP) will reduce administrative burdens and streamline the recruiting process for Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program employers with a history of meeting program requirements.
Prior to submitting a work permit application to engage a temporary foreign worker, the majority of employers must first submit a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA).
An LMIA confirms the need for a transient foreign worker and that no Canadians or permanent residents are available to fill the position.
In addition, it ensures that the employment offer is genuine and that the employer has complied with Program requirements to safeguard employees.

To participate in REP, employers must have received at least three positive LMIAs for the same occupation within the past five years from a list of occupations designated as in-shortage and supported by Canadian Occupational Projection System (COPS) data.
Recognized employers will have access to LMIA validity periods of up to 36 months and, if necessary, simplified LMIA applications for future hiring of additional employees.
REP will be implemented in two phases:

• Employers in the Primary Agriculture stream will be able to submit applications for the 2024 season beginning in September 2023.
• Phase two commences in January 2024 and allows all other industries to participate.

The application period for both streams will end in September 2024.

Employers who are anticipated to meet REP eligibility requirements will be invited proactively to register using a dual-purpose LMIA application that differs from the standard LMIA.
Employers may request that the application be used to simultaneously submit for recognized status under REP and the LMIA.
Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) will determine eligibility for the REP based on the employer’s past participation in the TFW Program.
If an employer is not granted recognized status, they will still be eligible to utilize the TFW Program, and the Department will continue to evaluate their LMIA.

There are two methods to submit an LMIA and REP application:

1. Through the LMIA Online Portal, a dependable and secure platform where employers can complete and submit an online application to ESDC; or,
2. if the employer has a legitimate exemption evidence to the LMIA Online Portal, they can email a PDF application form to ESDC.

The evaluation of a REP application will be based on the employer’s compliance history with the TFW Program and the frequency with which they use the Program to fill in-demand positions.

Employers who qualify can expect:

• a simplified application process for future LMIA applications for positions on the COPS list;
• fewer points of contact between participating employers and ESDC during the pilot due to simplified LMIA forms that allow employers to hire more Temporary Foreign Workers for genuine job offers during REP; and
• a Job Bank designation that indicates their recognized status in order to increase interest from prospective workers.

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For more information please visit below website.
https://immigrationnewscanada.ca/new-pilot-program-temporary-foreign-worker-program/
This is a developing story, and INC News is updating it as it happens.


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​On Friday, the Canadian Parliament will close for the summer. Undocumented migrants and all major organizations and unions have been demanding that Prime Minister Trudeau keep his promise and create a regularization program granting permanent residence to all undocumented migrants. Now only a few days remain before he and his colleagues head off for vacation.
Whether there is an announcement of a broad regularization program for undocumented migrants this week or not, we are taking action!

• Montreal: Night of the announcement or on Friday, June 23, 5:30pm at Metro Parc (click here if an announcement is made before  June 23)
• Toronto: Saturday, June 24, 11am at Bloor and Spadina
• Vancouver: Sunday, June 25, 10am, CBC Plaza
• Shediac: Sunday, June 25,11am, Pascal Poirier Park

Join us to insist on our equality as human beings, join us to insist on our dignity and worth. We demand a regularization program that gives permanent resident status to every single migrant in the country, and permanent residence on arrival for everyone entering Canada. We demand an immediate end to deportations and detentions.
All out! Call your friends! We need your solidarity!
No matter what happens on June 23rd, we will not stop our actions.
CALL EVERY DAY: www.MigrantRights.ca/CallforStatus
EMAIL EVERY DAY: www.StatusForAll.ca

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his 38 Cabinet Ministers will finally be discussing regularization this May. They can either make a decision immediately, or continue to delay. They can create a small and exclusionary program for just a few or ensure permanent resident status for all undocumented people. Together, let’s make sure they do the right thing and ensure status for all. Here’s how: 
(1) Visit Cabinet Minister offices, talk to the constituency staff and drop off letters
(2) Call the Cabinet Ministers everyday
(3) Send emails, write letters and deliver petitions to Cabinet Ministers.
Over the next few weeks, we must push as hard as we can, get as loud as we can to make sure that Cabinet Ministers create a program to ensure permanent resident status for all undocumented people. But if they choose to delay, we won’t stop, let’s keep up the pressure over the summer and beyond to win. 
(1) Visit Cabinet Minister offices, talk to the constituency staff and drop off lettersStep 1: Find the closest constituency office near you.

Step 2: Check online using Google to see when they are open. Constituency offices are usually open to the public between 10am to 4pm, Monday – Thursday, but make sure to confirm. Pick a time that you can go and invite friends to come with you if you can. Let us know when you are going so we can encourage those nearby to join you, email us at [email protected]. 
Step 3: Print out these three documents:

• Personalize this letter and print it out
• Regularization Policy brief
• Cabinet Minister posters (to take photos with) 

Step 4: Go to the Constituency Office. When you arrive, tell them you are a local resident and there to speak about regularization. Ask the staff to pass on the message to the Cabinet Minister that local residents and voters support an inclusive regularization program that grants permanent resident status to all undocumented people. Ask for the contact information of the person you spoke to, and tell them you will be calling to ask what the Minister said. If you don’t feel comfortable talking, you can also just give them the letter and the policy brief. 
Step 5: A few days later, call the office to ask if they passed on your message to the Minister.
Step 6: Email us and let us know what happened – [email protected]
(2) Call the Cabinet Ministers everydayCall as many of the Cabinet Ministers as you can, starting with Prime Minister Trudeau, and then Ministers in the province you are in. Two ways to call: 
Call Directly From Your Phone:  Click here for their phone numbers and a script. 

Call Using Our Automated Caller: Enter your information below and click Make the Call. Our system will dial a Cabinet Minister. You can leave message for one Minister or stay on the line, and the system will move to the next Minister when you’re done. A phone script will appear on the next page. 

(3) Send emails, write letters, and deliver petitions to Cabinet Ministers.
Every time you or a friend adds their name here: www.StatusForAll.ca; an email is automatically sent to all Cabinet Ministers. The more emails they receive, the more they know this is an issue they need to act on.

You can also gather paper petition signatures. Download them from here, print, and take them to your community events, when you go for religious service, or a picnic, or outside a local transit hub. You can do it on your own or with friends, simply take a clipboard and pen.

• Download and print legal sized petition
• Download and print regular 8.5 x 11 sized petition
• Once you’ve gathered signatures, click here to share them with us.

If you would like to send an email yourself, use the template email here, and get their contact email addresses here. Letters can be individual or organizational. Even if you’ve written an organizational letter, please send another one. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his 38 Cabinet Ministers will finally be discussing regularization this May. They can either make a decision immediately, or continue to delay. They can create a small and exclusionary program for just a few or ensure permanent resident status for all undocumented people. Together, let’s make sure they do the right thing and ensure status for all. Here’s how: 
(1) Visit Cabinet Minister offices, talk to the constituency staff and drop off letters
(2) Call the Cabinet Ministers everyday
(3) Send emails, write letters and deliver petitions to Cabinet Ministers.
Over the next few weeks, we must push as hard as we can, get as loud as we can to make sure that Cabinet Ministers create a program to ensure permanent resident status for all undocumented people. But if they choose to delay, we won’t stop, let’s keep up the pressure over the summer and beyond to win. 

(1) Visit Cabinet Minister offices, talk to the constituency staff and drop off lettersStep 1: Find the closest constituency office near you.
​
Step 2: Check online using Google to see when they are open. Constituency offices are usually open to the public between 10am to 4pm, Monday – Thursday, but make sure to confirm. Pick a time that you can go and invite friends to come with you if you can. Let us know when you are going so we can encourage those nearby to join you, email us at [email protected]. 
Step 3: Print out these three documents:

• Personalize this letter and print it out
• Regularization Policy brief
• Cabinet Minister posters (to take photos with) 

Step 4: Go to the Constituency Office. When you arrive, tell them you are a local resident and there to speak about regularization. Ask the staff to pass on the message to the Cabinet Minister that local residents and voters support an inclusive regularization program that grants permanent resident status to all undocumented people. Ask for the contact information of the person you spoke to, and tell them you will be calling to ask what the Minister said. If you don’t feel comfortable talking, you can also just give them the letter and the policy brief. 
Step 5: A few days later, call the office to ask if they passed on your message to the Minister.
Step 6: Email us and let us know what happened – [email protected]

(2) Call the Cabinet Ministers everydayCall as many of the Cabinet Ministers as you can, starting with Prime Minister Trudeau, and then Ministers in the province you are in. Two ways to call: 
Call Directly From Your Phone:  Click here for their phone numbers and a script. 

Call Using Our Automated Caller: Enter your information below and click Make the Call. Our system will dial a Cabinet Minister. You can leave message for one Minister or stay on the line, and the system will move to the next Minister when you’re done. A phone script will appear on the next page. 

(3) Send emails, write letters, and deliver petitions to Cabinet Ministers.

Every time you or a friend adds their name here: www.StatusForAll.ca; an email is automatically sent to all Cabinet Ministers. The more emails they receive, the more they know this is an issue they need to act on.

You can also gather paper petition signatures. Download them from here, print, and take them to your community events, when you go for religious service, or a picnic, or outside a local transit hub. You can do it on your own or with friends, simply take a clipboard and pen.

• Download and print legal sized petition
• Download and print regular 8.5 x 11 sized petition
• Once you’ve gathered signatures, click here to share them with us.

If you would like to send an email yourself, use the template email here, and get their contact email addresses here. Letters can be individual or organizational. Even if you’ve written an organizational letter, please send another one. 

​On March 19, mark the International Day for Elimination of Racism and the return of spring to take to the streets with thousands of migrants and supporters to demand equal rights and permanent resident status for all undocumented people, migrant workers, students, families and refugees. A regularization program was promised in December 2021 but Prime Minister Trudeau is stalling, and migrant families are being deported and exploited every day. Anti-immigrant forces are trying to shut down immigration justice. They are blaming immigrants for low-wages; and creating hysteria about refugee claimants escaping the United States via Roxham Road to distract from corporate greed and profiteering. We must show the federal government that there are more of us, and we all want Status For All. We must mobilize in the thousands with hope, we must #UniteAgainstRacism, insist #RefugeesWelcome and demand #StatusForAll. We have won many victories, from access to vaccines, to stopping deportations, to winning improvements to laws. We must make sure there are no delays. Find an action near you below, or read how to organize your own.
Edmonton – Sunday, March 19, 2023
1pm, Alberta Legislature Grounds. RSVP Now!
Montreal – March 18 to 19, 2023
Starting 7:30pm on March 18, ending 9am March 19, Guy-Favreau Complex, RSVP Now!
Niagara – Sunday, March 19, 2023
2pm, Niagara Falls City Hall. RSVP Now!
Sudbury – Saturday, March 18, 2023
2:30pm, Main Public Library, 74 MacKenzie Street. RSVP Now!
Toronto – Sunday, March 19, 2023
2pm, Christie Pits Park. RSVP NOW!
Vancouver – Sunday, March 19, 2023
12pm, CBC Plaza. RSVP NOW!
Victoria – Sunday, March 19, 2023
1pm, 50 Burnside Rd. RSVP NOW!
Don’t see your city? You can still take action:

• Poster an MP’s office: Go alone or with a friend to to the closest Member of Parliament office (click here to search) at anytime and put up as many posters as you can. Make sure to take a photo with the MP’s name visible and post on social media or send to us. Use this MP specific poster. 
• Put up a poster on March 19: On the street, in your window, or your office door. Click here to download a general poster not for MPs.
• Post on social media: Post a photo of the poster, or of you with a sign saying #StatusForAll. Make sure to tag @MigrantRightsCA.

Key Messages

• Caregivers from abroad play an important role in supporting Canadian families who are unable to find the care they need for a family member in Canada.
• The Home Child Care Provider and Home Support Worker pilots were introduced in 2019 to provide a clear, direct pathway to permanent residence for in-home caregivers.
• Canada continues to welcome in-home caregivers through multiple economic immigration pathways. As of September 30, 2022, the Department admitted approximately 3,800 new permanent residents to Canada through the caregiver streams.
• In addition, as of September 30, 2022, over 2,500 in-home caregivers obtained permanent residence through the Temporary Resident to Permanent Resident Pathway.
• IRCC continues to make progress toward processing the existing inventory of caregiver applications while finalizing applications for approximately 4,500 caregivers and family members.
• On January 1, 2023, both caregiver pilots will re-open for new applications. The Home Support Worker Pilot has not reached the 2,750 application limit and continues to be open for new applications in 2022.

Supplementary MessagesEligibility Requirements

• Caregivers are required to meet:
  • a Canadian Language Benchmark of level 5 (low intermediate) or higher;
  • must have a Canadian credential of at least one year of post-secondary study (or a foreign equivalent); and,
  • must have required 1 to 2 years of Canadian work experience, depending on the pathway.
• These requirements help ensure caregivers have sufficient official language competence, training and work experience to care for potentially vulnerable populations, such as children, seniors, and persons with disabilities.
• The basic skills, education and work experience also provide a foundation to enable successful economic establishment in Canada as permanent residents and future citizens as most leave the caregiving field once they transition from temporary to permanent residence.

Caregiver pilots and processing times

• Under the pilots, caregivers with less than two years of eligible work experience in Canada submit both their permanent resident and work permit applications together.
• They are assessed for most permanent residence criteria (i.e., education, official language, job offer and admissibility) before receiving a three-year occupation-specific open work permit.
• Once an applicant has obtained 24 months of qualifying work experience in Canada, they submit proof to IRCC that they have completed this requirement.
• IRCC finalized approximately 6,000 permanent residence applications for caregivers and their family members in 2021, nearly meeting the target set for the end of December 2021.
• As of September 30, 2022, the caregiver processing inventory included approximately 32,000 people (including caregivers and their family members) from all caregiver pathways. This does not include applications that have not yet been verified for completeness.
• As of October 24, 2022, about 1,000 work permit and work permit extensions had been processed since the launch of the caregiver pilots to allow candidates to begin gaining the two years of work experience necessary to obtain permanent residency.
• Demand for the caregiver pilots continues to be strong. Intake under the Home Child Care Provider and Home Support Worker pilots will open in January 2023.
• If pressed – e-applications: Since September 23, 2022 to better enable workload management, applications must submitted in electronic format with an exception for those unable to apply online. These instructions apply to permanent economic immigration programs and pilots, including the caregiver pilots.
• If pressed - intake cap: In 2022, the Department received the maximum annual limit of 2,750 applications under the Home Child Care Provider Pilot by January 17th, closing application intake for the year.
• Given pent-up demand, it is anticipated that the intake cap will again be reached in a matter of days when the Home Child Care Provider reopens in January 2023. As such, specific measures are being considered to support access for clients requiring alternate application formats to ensure they have an equal opportunity to apply.
• If pressed – processing times: Processing times under the caregiver pilots were posted on IRCC’s website in September 2022 to support departmental priorities on client service and transparency. Currently, processing times range from 27 to 33 months. With these processing times, clients will have clearer expectations about the length of time caregiver applications may take to be processed.
• The Department is making progress processing applications received under the current pilots. While the aim is to process these applications in 12 months, it is unlikely IRCC will return to meeting this target processing time in the short-term.
• As a mitigation measure, the Department continues to process applications received under previous caregiver pathways using a “first-in first out” approach, where feasible. This aims to ensure older applications are not disproportionately impacted.
• If pressed – inventory reduction: The Department is making progress toward reducing the existing inventory of caregiver applications. The large volume of large number of applications accumulated during the COVID-19 pandemic when offices were closed and competing processing priorities, have meant it is taking significantly longer to draw down this inventory.

COVID-19 and Vulnerability

• The pandemic has highlighted the unique vulnerability of in-home work that is also often live-in work for caregivers. Concerns related to the dependence on an employer for one’s livelihood and shelter have driven significant program change since 2014.
• Ensuring the protection of temporary foreign workers in Canada is a top priority for the Government. While provinces and territories are responsible for labour legislation and workplace protections in their jurisdictions, the Government has tools in place to prevent and respond to situations of workplace abuse (e.g., the Open Work Permit for Vulnerable Workers), and to help workers exit these situations when they do occur.
• The Government has put in place a wide range of special measures during the pandemic to support workers, including those on employer-specific work permits who need to change employers, or for those on maintained status, which in turn can help support their goals for permanent residence.

Hiring Caregivers As Temporary Foreign Workers

• In June 2019, the Department put in place a refusal-to-process for new employer-specific work permit applications received from outside Canada that require a labour market impact assessment in the caregiver occupations. To support the pilots’ goal to secure a clearer path to permanent residence for current and new in-home caregivers, those who hold job offers but have not yet acquired the 24 months of work experience are assessed for permanent residence prior to being issued an occupation-specific open work permit. This does not apply to certain groups of foreign nationals such as those destined to work in Quebec. Foreign national caregivers already in Canada on employer-specific work permits can extend their work permits through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, with some limited exceptions, and apply for permanent residence through the pilots.
• Updated Ministerial Instructions related to the refusal-to-process came into force on April 23, 2022. Aligned with the Department’s intent to not process work permit applications for caregiver occupations received outside of the caregiver pilots (and therefore with no pathway to permanent residence), these new provisions ensure visitors in Canada are not able to apply for a work permit in a caregiver occupation. This includes those who may apply through the visitor-to-worker public policy, and foreign nationals who apply for an initial work permit in a caregiver occupation at Canadian ports of entry.

Future Of Caregiving Programming

• My Department is exploring future caregiver policies and programming with the objectives of minimizing vulnerability, facilitating pathways to permanent residence for caregivers, and supporting labour market needs in health care and affordable childcare.
• Currently, the Express Entry system manages programs that are available to foreign nationals with work experience in occupations categorized in TEER 3 or above. Caregiver occupations do not meet this threshold.

​For more information, please visit 
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/transparency/committees/cimm-nov-29-2022/caregivers.html

Many care workers are stuck in a backlog, and the childcare permanent residency stream closed in just 17 days. Together, care workers have come up with this letter. Add your name to send it the Ministers.

​Prime Minister Trudeau, Immigration Minister Fraser, and my Member of Parliament,

Care work is the important work done to take care of children, sick and the elderly in the home, often done by migrant workers. This care work is the backbone of Canada’s labour market and social support systems. Without care work, the economy does not work. Canada must create a national care strategy to ensure quality care for children, the elderly and people with disabilities. Decent work and landed status now for the workers providing that care work must be the foundation of Canada’s care economy.
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Many care workers are paid low wages, work long hours and live in difficult conditions for years to have the chance to apply for permanent residency. We are tied to our employers and face exploitation as a result.  Some employers are using the pandemic to overwork and underpay care workers, trap us inside their homes or force us to work while sick. Many care workers cannot find jobs on employer specific work permits. 
Many care workers applied for permanent residency but we have been waiting for years to get a decision on our applications, or even an acknowledgement that we applied. We are separated from our families and must remain tied to employers. Care workers are unable to get PR because of language tests and educational accreditation requirements that are expensive, time consuming, and unnecessary. Migrant care workers live and work here already, requiring further proof of education or language skills is discriminatory. The existing pathway has an arbitrary cap of 2,750 applications which was reached in just 17 days in 2022. Now childcare workers must wait till 2023 to apply. 
We call on you to act quickly to ensure fairness for all care workers. This means:

1. Landed status now for all care workers
2. Clear the backlog: No more waiting for PR processing
3. No more quotas or caps
4. No more tied work permits 
5. No English language requirements
6. No education accreditation requirement
7. Reunite families

Granting landed status to care workers should be accompanied by granting full and permanent immigration status to all migrant and undocumented people in Canada now, and permanent resident status on arrival to all migrants in the future. Finally, we call on Canada to sign the ILO Convention C189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. 
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https://youtu.be/xHVfJeFT2oU

Landed Status Now: Care Workers Organize! Members: Alberta Careworkers Association (Edmonton), Caregivers Action Centre (Toronto), CCESO – Careworker Connections and Educational Support Organization (Toronto), Committee for Domestic Workers and Caregivers Rights (Vancouver), Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (Ontario), Migrante Alberta, Migrante Canada, Migrante Ottawa, PINAY Quebec (Montreal). Endorsed by: Association for the Rights of Household and Farm Workers (ADDPD-ARHW). ​

​July 15, 2021—Ottawa--The Honourable Marco E. L. Mendicino, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship announced today that, beginning July 26, 2021, individuals who have applied for the recently opened pathway to permanent residence will be eligible for an open work permit while awaiting the results of their application.

The pathway to permanent residence was opened to international students who graduated from a Canadian institution, health care workers and those in other designated essential occupations on May 6, 2021. To qualify for the pathway, individuals must be legally working in Canada at the time of their application and maintain their temporary resident status until a decision is made on their permanent residence application.

Many whose status is set to expire are able to extend their work permit under existing programs, or receive a new permit under one of the temporary measures put in place as a result of the pandemic, such as the public policy for post-graduation work permit holders.

We recognize the potential disruption and uncertainty for applicants who have an expiring work permit, and have been working to ensure that those who don’t qualify for existing measures won’t lose their temporary status and work authorization.
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To qualify for this one-time open work permit, the applicants must show that they

• have successfully submitted an application under one of the new permanent residence pathway’s streams
• held a valid work permit, or were authorized to work without a work permit, at the time their permanent residence application was submitted
• hold a valid work permit that is set to expire within the next 4 months
• have temporary resident status, maintained status or are eligible to restore their status at the time their open work permit application is submitted
• are in Canada at the time their open work permit application is submitted
• were employed in any occupation at the time their permanent residence application was submitted
• meet the language requirements of the stream under which they applied at the time their permanent residence application was submitted

Quotes
“Our new path to permanent residence for 90,000 essential workers and international graduates is a major step forward—the size, speed and scope of which is unprecedented. This new open work permit ensures that those who have been playing critical roles throughout the pandemic can continue their extraordinary service. Our message to them is simple: your status may be temporary, but your contributions are lasting—and we want you to stay.”
 – The Honourable Marco E. L. Mendicino, P.C., M.P., Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship   

Quick facts

• An applicant’s spouse or common-law partner and dependent children 18 years or older may also be eligible to apply for an open work permit under this policy, if they are also in Canada. 
• Applications for the new work permit should be submitted online. Further details on how to apply will be added to IRCC’s website on July 26, 2021.
• Work permits issued under this policy will be valid until December 31, 2022.
• Those who have applied to extend their work permit before their current one has expired may maintain their status and have authorization to work without a permit under the same conditions as the original while the new permit is being processed. 

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Applications for the new pathway to permanent residence for essential workers and international graduates in Canada opens May 6 at 12:00 pm ET.
We will accept applications until November 5, 2021, or until a stream has reached:
• 20,000 temporary foreign workers in health care
• 30,000 temporary foreign workers in selected essential occupations
• 40,000 international graduates from a Canadian post-secondary institution
Please note: there is no application limit for 3 dedicated streams for French-speaking or bilingual candidates. We will accept these applications until November 5, 2021.
Clients who need accommodation for a disability can request an application in an alternative format. For streams with a limit, requests must be received by May 20 or before the limit has been reached, whichever is later. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3umBHPR
Clients should use the online eligibility tool to confirm they qualify and that their application is complete before submitting. Learn more about the application process, including what documents you need: https://bit.ly/3h3YP1R

​ Guide 5069 – Temporary public policy: Temporary Resident to Permanent Resident Pathway (TR to PR Pathway) Table of Contents

• Before You Apply
• Eligibility Requirements
• Step 1. Gather Documents
• Step 2. Complete the Application
• Step 3. Pay the Fees
• Step 4. Submit the Application Online
• What Happens Next
• Need Help?
• Appendix A – Photo Specifications

This is not a legal document. The explanations and definitions are not legal definitions. In case of a discrepancy between the language in this document and the relevant legislation or regulations, the legal text in the legislation and regulations prevails.
For legal information, see the:

• Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
• Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations

This information will help you complete the forms and guide you through the application process.


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• Before You Apply
• Eligibility Requirements
• Step 1. Gather Documents
• Step 2. Complete the Application
• Step 3. Pay the Fees
• Step 4. Submit the Application Online
• What Happens Next
• Need Help?
• Appendix A – Photo Specifications

This is not a legal document. The explanations and definitions are not legal definitions. In case of a discrepancy between the language in this document and the relevant legislation or regulations, the legal text in the legislation and regulations prevails.
For legal information, see the:

• Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
• Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations

This information will help you complete the forms and guide you through the application process.

Hello everyone! 

A few things: 

(1) Phone Zap before May 6th to expand the program: https://migrantrights.ca/callforstatus/ [PLEASE SHARE]

(2) We will be pushing it out on social media, until May 6th as a campaign as discussed, the first posts are here - [PLEASE SHARE] Twitter: https://twitter.com/MigrantRightsCA/status/1387059238023933954
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MigrantRightsCA/posts/1421853678148492
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/COLIAitotqQ/?igshid=jx8wheheo4cy

(3) May 9th is online now on facebook and our website: www.MigrantRights.ca/May9. [Please share links of your event so we can update]

(4) Our plan is to launch a report next Tuesday with a press conference. We need two things from organizations:
(a) Please share this link with migrants so we can get more data we can report on: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NewPRApr2021 
(b) Please connect us to migrant spokespeople in your organization available to be on Zoom on Tuesday morning that can speak about how they have been excluded. We need these connections ASAP so we can profile them for our social media campaign too. 

Please visit :  https://migrantrights.ca/​

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​COVID-19 doesn’t pick or choose, but laws and policies do. As a result, it’s Indigenous, Black and Brown communities, poor people, women, the elderly, and migrants that are worse impacted. 
Everyone deserves rights, dignity and protection. But the federal government has announced a new permanent residency program for essential workers that excludes most migrants. Families will remain separated, and the threat of deportations and being ripped out of communities we have built here remains hanging on all of us without permanent resident status. 
This program was created because migrants organized, and allies joined us. We must push harder.
On May 9th, Mother’s Day, join an action near you or organize your own, or take action on social media.
WHEREVER YOU ARE, YOUR ACTIONS WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
RIGHT NOW!

• Make a call to PM Trudeau: Tell him to ensure full and permanent immigration status for all without exception: www.MigrantRights.ca/CallforStatus 

ONLINE ON MAY 9

• Before or on Mother’s Day 2021, May 9th, take a photo with your family and post a message to Justin Trudeau: Unite All Families! Status for All!
• Tag and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram

IN YOUR CITY

• Actions will be announced shortly in Edmonton, Calgary, Montreal and Vancouver, and details will be updated here. Check back here often. 
• Organize a COVID-19 safe rally, picket, march, postering or banner drop in your community. Check out what other cities did for previous days of action, and then get in touch with us at [email protected] for more resources.

IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD

• PUT UP POSTERS: Download these beautiful posters and put them up in your window!
• DISTRIBUTE FLYERS: Give them to your neighbours!

Full and Permanent Immigration Status for All Residents Is Essential to Building an Equal Society Post COVID19 
Canada, April 20, 2021 

The 2021 federal budget continues Canada’s trajectory of temporary migration, where the majority of new arrivals each year are on temporary study, work or refugee permits without equal rights or services. $168.3 million dollars has been allocated to paying for the management and the fallout of temporary immigration streams, and almost a billion dollars for border enforcement rather than ensuring full and permanent immigration status for all. The federal budget’s announcement of a childcare program does not ensure permanent resident status on arrival for the tens of thousands of low-waged, racialized migrant women who take care of children. There is no recovery without full equality and that requires full and permanent immigration status for all.  

The Trudeau government’s budget  announced the following on Immigration: 

• Budget 2021 acknowledges that migrants were responsible for 75% of Canada’s net GDP growth in 2019, but does not ensure equal rights for migrants. 
• The Budget re-commits the federal government to recently announced time-limited and exclusionary pathways to permanent residence. 
  • This program excludes undocumented migrants, refugees, students in programs less than 2 years long, those that are currently unemployed, those without valid work authorization, those that cannot pass language exams, and those in many essential industries. There are only 90,000 spots for hundreds of thousands of potential applicants who are scrambling  to get their applications in order, and pass language tests during the third wave.  
• Budget 2021 announces that the Government of Canada intends to propose amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to provide the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada with even more authority to determine who becomes a permanent resident. 
  • Over the last decade, incredible power has been centralized in the Minister’s hands resulting in the proliferation of so-called Pilot Programs, creating more and more temporary immigration streams and “pathways” to permanent residency that few people can access. It is time to overhaul the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to ensure permanent resident status for all migrants, including on arrival. 
• Budget 2021 proposes to provide $656.1 million over five years, beginning in 2021-22, and $123.8 million ongoing, to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) to modernize the borders.
  • These funds will likely result in increased immigration enforcement, more integration with US Border control but will not ensure oversight of CBSA. Border enforcement will not fight COVID nor heal any wounds of the pandemic – border enforcement only deepens them.
• Budget 2021 proposes to provide $57.6 million in 2021-22 to extend the Mandatory Isolation Support for Temporary Foreign Workers Program to help employers offset costs associated with temporary foreign workers fulfilling isolation requirements upon entering Canada.
  • Since the beginning of the pandemic increased subsidies for employers have failed to improve quarantine conditions for migrant workers. Migrant farmworkers report lack of sufficient or appropriate food, illegal deductions from pay, and restrictions on mobility far greater than public health requirements. Migrants need permanent resident status to access and enforce rights. 
• $54.9 million over three years, starting in 2021-22, to Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, to increase inspections
  • ESDC’s inspection program does not give migrant workers the ability to assert their rights. By law, ESDC cannot even share the fact or results of an inspection with the workers whose complaints triggered those inspections in the first place, much less ensure that they are compensated in instances of abuse. Only six employers have been found ineligible through these inspections since the start of COVID-19, despite the wave of massive COVID outbreaks, migrant worker deaths, and worker complaints that occured in the first and second waves of the pandemic.
• $6.3 million over three years, starting in 2021-22, to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, to support faster processing and improved service delivery of open work permits for vulnerable workers
  • Most migrants cannot apply for these permits because of onerous application procedures which require access to legal advice  and documentation. Open work permits for vulnerable workers are one-time non-renewable permits – they are a band-aid solution that allows some to exit one bad job but then forces workers right back into the system that produced those bad jobs. Tied work permits and temporary immigration status are the problem, not processing.
• Budget 2021 proposes to invest $428.9 million over five years, with $398.5 million in remaining amortization, starting in 2021-22, to develop and deliver a new digital platform for immigration process.
  • The problems with the immigration system are not just about technology. Processing backlogs and long wait times are the result of the many unjust and impossible requirements migrants must meet in order to access permanent residency.
• $49.5 million over three years, starting in 2021-22, to Employment and Social Development Canada, to support community-based organizations in the provision of migrant worker-centric programs and services, such as on-arrival orientation services and assistance in emergency and at-risk situations, through the new Migrant Worker Support Program.
  • This funding aims to provide rights information to migrants without permanent resident status that migrant groups have called a “waste of resources”. But the problem is not that migrants don’t have information about their rights, it’s that they are either excluded from rights or cannot assert those they do have without risking termination and deportation, because of their temporary immigration status. 

Please visit :  https://migrantrights.ca/budget2021/

​Published on April 18, 2021
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Migrant care workers, we won many of our demands, but too many of us are excluded! Last week, the federal government announced a new PR program, and updates about the backlog and the pilot program. These changes happened because migrant care workers got noisy! We signed petitions, spoke in the media and on social media. But we know that if the government did this, they can do more. No more partial solutions! Keep organizing and calling for full and permanent immigration status for all now! We can get the government to make even better rules. 
Right now, the government wants to cool us down, but the truth is that we can’t. We need to keep getting louder for status for all! 
Two years ago, the government announced that they will fix problems for us care workers when they created the Interim Pathway Program. But nothing was fixed – all it did was create a backlog. Now again they have made new announcements, but we still don’t have PR and continue to be separated from our families. We cannot stop being noisy until we ALL have PR for us and our families. 
With the announcement of the new PR program, many of us are panicking. We are searching for English exams, trying to get documents from back home, and it’s creating a lot of stress. So here’s a quick summary of what you need to know and do: 

• If you already applied for PR under the Interim Pathway Program (and completed 12 months of work) or under the other two caregiver pilot programs (and have completed 24 months of work), do not reapply under the new PR program announced on April 14th. 

>> The government has announced that they will clear the backlog and the new PR program won’t get you PR faster. But the government has only promised to process 6000 applications by the end of the year, even though there are over 12,000 applications already in the backlog! So even with this promise, we have to wait. Many of us still don’t have open work permits. We must continue to call for PR for all of us. 

• If you are a Home Support Worker who hasn’t applied for PR and you have CLB Level 5 and the educational accreditation, you should apply under the current Home Support Worker Pilot Program.  

>> This is because the new PR program announced on April 14th is small and spots will fill up quickly. This program is not just for migrant care workers, but also for other essential workers. It is many people’s only chance at getting PR and being reunited with their families, so if you don’t need to apply, then don’t. For the Home Support Worker Pilot Program, the government announced that 516 out of 2750 applications have been made so far in 2021, so you are safer applying under the Home Support Worker Pilot Program. But we know getting PR is difficult, and we are still being mistreated at work, so we must keep fighting for status for all!

• If you don’t have the educational accreditation OR you are unable to get past CLB Level 4 OR you are a Home Childcare Worker and have 12 months of work experience, you should try to apply through the new PR program announced on April 14th. Click here to see if you are eligible for the new PR program and learn how to apply.

>> But you should know that there are only 50,000 spots in the new PR program and hundreds of thousands of people will be trying to apply. Many of us are having issues booking our English test because the IELTS and CELPIP websites have crashed or spots are filling up. Some of us don’t have valid work permits or implied status, have lost our immigration status or are having problems finding a job – which means we may not qualify for this program. Even if you are eligible, keep raising your voice for landed status for ALL. 
>> The new PR program will open on May 6th and will be open until the spots are full or until the cap is met. 
>> The government also announced that as of April 8th, 2367 out of 2750 applications have been made for the Home Childcare Provider Pilot Program. Because of this, you may be safer applying under the new PR program announced on April 14th if you are eligible. 
As you can see, too many of us are excluded. We continue to be tied to our employers and be mistreated. We continue to be separated from our families. All of us want status, so why can some apply and not others? The government promised us PR, so why are we still waiting? Our message is clear: We are done waiting. We will not accept anything less than Status for All NOW! 
​These changes are good, but not good enough, we will keep organizing! Sign our petition: www.LandedStatusNow.ca/

Please visit :  https://www.caregiversactioncentre.org/newprchanges2021

Public Policy ConsiderationsThe pandemic has highlighted the contribution of foreign nationals in Canada, across all sectors and skill levels. During the global COVID-19 pandemic, there is an increased need to ensure that Canada has the necessary workforce to support the physical health and wellbeing of individuals, as well as the economic recovery. The public policy targets foreign nationals with at least one year of work experience in Canada in an essential occupation, in recognition of their economic contribution and in acknowledgement of the ongoing need that Canada has for these professionals. In addition, the public policy helps retain French and French immersion teachers to address the shortage of French-language teachers in Canada outside of Quebec and by doing so, supports the Government of Canada’s objectives on official languages.

While applications for permanent residence have been accepted and processed throughout the pandemic, the global travel restrictions and capacity constraints have led to a shortfall in admissions in 2020. The 401,000 new admissions announced for 2021 in the 2021-2023 Immigration Levels Plan are key to ensuring Canada has the workers it needs to fill key essential positions and remain competitive in attracting global talent.
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As such, I hereby establish that, pursuant to my authority under section 25.2 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Act), there are sufficient public policy considerations that justify the granting of permanent resident status or an exemption from certain requirements of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (Regulations), to foreign nationals who meet the conditions (eligibility requirements) listed below.

10 months ago today we began our campaign for full and permanent immigration status for all. Today, migrants won a major victory. At least 90,000 more people and their families will get permanent resident status! 
Keep reading to see if you qualify!
Migrants bravely spoke up about injustice and forced the federal government to acknowledge that permanent resident status is necessary to be able to access or assert basic rights. Today’s announcement proves that the federal government can change immigration rules. Full and permanent immigration status for all in the country and permanent resident status on arrival for all in the future is possible and we will not stop until we win it. Nothing less is acceptable. Your support has been crucial in this victory and we ask you to recommit to this fight. 
Today’s announcement creates a partial and short-term opening to PR for some but does not change the fundamentally temporary nature of the immigration system. Each year hundreds of thousands of people come with temporary permits. The new program only includes migrants with select work experience and denies status to anyone who is unemployed, even in an economic downturn.
All undocumented migrants – over 500,000 people – are excluded from this new program, despite the essential work many are doing in our communities. It is the temporary immigration system that has pushed our communities out of status, and it is the same immigration system that continues to keep us out. 
The new program includes English language requirements which will exclude many groups of workers and entire communities. Many migrants who otherwise could meet the language requirements will be scrambling to get testing and accreditation done during this short window because of COVID-19 related shutdowns. 
It is crucial that in this moment we assert that all of us are essential. All migrants, no matter what kind of work we do, waged or unwaged, must be included. Permanent resident status is not a gift or a prize to be earned – it is the only way to ensure equality of rights and access to basic services. Anything less permits and produces inequality. 
If you are a migrant who fulfills the criteria below you may be able to apply for permanent resident status. But remember, we won this because of collective action, and we cannot stop until we win STATUS FOR ALL. 

Here’s what migrants are saying“For us undocumented migrant workers, we know that our work is truly essential. So it is disappointing to see that in this announcement we are excluded. When the government does not address the temporary migrant workers program’s fundamental issue, these changes, although welcomed, indeed fall short of the aspirations of ALL migrants and advocates. It simply reinforces the existing neoliberal agenda within the Canadian immigration system.” 
– Marisol B. Migrante Canada
“Undocumented people like me work on the frontlines in long-term care homes, caring for the sick and the elderly, and in many other essential jobs. Why are we being excluded? Without permanent resident status, we are shut out of healthcare, even the COVID19 vaccine, we can’t defend ourselves against bad bosses, and we live in constant fear of detention and deportation”. 
– Lily, Caregivers Action Centre
“For the first time, some seasonal agricultural workers may have a path to permanent resident status, but the requirement for passing a high level English test excludes the majority of us. This is discrimination. They call us essential, but they continue to exclude us. We demand status for all.”
– Gabriel Flores, Migrant Workers Alliance for Change 
“As essential workers we do permanent work and therefore we should be granted FULL and PERMANENT IMMIGRATION STATUS so we can bring our family the soonest in Canada and be reunited, especially with our children who needed our guidance as their parents. We give so much of our life to improve Canada’s economy by serving our Canadian employers with the best of our service even though we missed our family back home. We shouldn’t wait any longer – full and permanent immigration status for all migrants now!” 
– Judy, Vancouver Committee for Domestic Workers and Caregivers Rights
“The immigration program announcement excludes migrant student workers like me who do not meet these narrow and arbitrary requirements. We have seen over and over that the government can make changes but is choosing not to make the necessary changes that we all deserve. All migrant and undocumented people deserve full and permanent immigration status! “
– Sashanna, Migrant Students United

Details of the program announced today

1. You must hold a valid work permit right now or be eligible to restore your work permit. You must be currently employed, though you do not necessarily need to be employed in the sector through which you qualify for the program. 
2. You must have 12 months of accumulated work experience in the previous 3 years in the streams below. 
3. You must prove CLB Level 4 language competency unless you are in the educational stream, in which case you must prove CLB Level 5.  
4. You must not be inadmissible under IRPA (Medical or Criminal inadmissibility). 
5. The streams are:
   1. 20,000 applications for temporary workers in 40 occupations in health care.
   2. 30,000 applications for temporary workers in 95 selected essential occupations including caregiving and food production and distribution. Click here for more info.
   3. 40,000 applications for international students who graduated with a minimum 8 month degree from a university, or a 16 month certificate or diploma from a Canadian college in the last 4 years, but no earlier than January 2017. You must have been continuously enrolled, with no gaps in your studies. Self-employed work in qualifying sectors does not count. Click here for more. 
   4. There are also additional streams for French-speaking or bilingual candidates outside of Quebec. See more here and here. 
6. Applications will open on May 6 and will remain open for six months or when the caps are reached. Other final details will only be available when the program opens on May 6th. 

Please visit : 
​      https://migrantrights.ca/migrantswinprpath/
      https://youtu.be/fwi3KSYaKQY