One of South America's most famous Catholic icons is the Lord of Miracles, celebrated annually by more than a million people in Lima. Over the past three decades Peru's fast-growing diaspora in Europe, the US, Japan and Argentina has made the Lord of Miracles the object of a global expatriation. Thus migrants in such cities as Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Genoa, Rome, Milan, Los Angeles, New York, Washington DC, Tokyo, Kyoto and Buenos Aires organise annual processions to bring the Lord of Miracles to the streets and other public places. This article compares the different strategies migrants pursue to reterritorialise the Lord of Miracles outside Peru and obtain permission from the local authorities to organise Catholic processions. In theoretical terms, it examines how migrants use the icon to negotiate their position in the borderland between the diasporic link to Peru and their new identity as immigrants. It suggests that the globalisation of the Lord of Miracles is part of a strategy Peruvian migrants use to gain access to public spaces in the host country and thus legitimise their presence and claim legal and political rights as immigrants.