UNDOCUMENTED. STORIES - Hand-written stories from Torontonians living without permanent status

I work there from time to time because I don t́ have enough money to be able to pay for everything I need and to help my family. [...] I decided to come here in Toronto to work in a factory as a cleaning lady to send money to my children for their school and daily living. [...] Toronto and that’s why we chose this country because he fell in love with the quality of life, my husband was the one with During that time I began to have panic attacks, with severe the best profile to enter a college and that’s why we invested anxiety we weren’t able to find a solution and we felt more in his studies so he could be the ‘door’ to apply for a PR. [...] In February of this year my grandmother died who We applied for the extension through our account on the had been like a mother to me and I wasn’t able to say goodbye Canada website because the cost of lawyers was very high, to her because I can’t leave the country and that has caused and the guy in class with my husband told us we could work me to have severe depression and I have to pay a psychi. [...] Months with the pandemic passed by and we paid 5 lawyers (Canadian, latino, and other nationalities) to advise us on I hope my story can be of help and can contribute to a what we should do to recover my status because I insist that it different vision since the immigration processes are very was never my intention to not have status.