Access to services without fear for migrants in an irregular immigration status

Canada

Dec 31

Montréal, Canada

Mayor
**Soraya Martinez Ferrada**
Start of Project
**06/15/2019**
End of Project
**Ongoing**

https://montreal.ca/sujets/personnes-sans-statut-ou-statut-precaire

Overview

Through this pledge, the City of Montréal demonstrated its commitment to ensuring equitable access to its services and programs for all migrants, regardless of immigration status.

Reported Impact [as of November 2025]

It has done so through two key levers:

1. A Policy on Access to Municipal Services Without Fear, adopted in 2019 and implemented in collaboration with a broad ecosystem of partners. Based on the principles of responsibility, respect, openness, and equity, this policy is a key instrument for promoting collective access to municipal services and programs. Between 2022 and 2025, the City issued 8,369 identity and residence certificates and deployed 23 mobile clinics for migrants.

2. The establishment of a financial program called Montréal for All, Regardless of Status (2024–2026). With a budget of CAD 1.9 million, the program will support nine projects, reaching more than 3,200 migrants with precarious status through 2026.

The city has adopted a collaborative and local approach aimed at making access to municipal services and programs regardless of immigration status a guiding principle of its actions and consolidating an inclusive organisational culture based on trust, dignity, and participation for all.