In this chapter, I highlight how temporary labour and border regimes use time as a tool to oppress and protect migrants, namely, through urgency vs. postponement and the dyad stasis/speed, coupled with its implementation rhythm. In doing so, I depart from a temporal turn in migration studies to focus on the complexity of migrant governance through “alienation” and the governance of migrants’ experiences of time. This is a qualitative and interpretative research study, combining data from semi-structured interviews with 36 Nepali migrants working in the agriculture sector in Portugal with participant observation, the field diary, and the ethnographic method. I describe how stasis and speed are used as labour management tools and manipulated by both migration and labour regimes, and how this frustrates the migrants’ expectations. The novelty of my contribution lies in the way it relates the use of time, urgency, and postponement to both oppression and protection while underlining the effects of migration and temporary labour regimes on different groups of South Asian migrants in Portugal, by focusing on Nepali agriculture workers.