Caring for Children Class (no longer accepting the application. The program was ended in June 18, 2019) 

Caring for People with High Medical Needs (caring for people with high medical needs ended in June 18, 2019)

Interim Pathway for Caregivers (the program ended in October 2019). If you have applied before October 8, 2019, the application will continue to process) 

Live-in Caregivers in Canada Class (the live-in-caregiver program is closed for the new applicants. You still can hire a caregiver who has a work permit and looking for a new employer or has an approved LMIA and the caregiver has agreed to live in your home. You still can apply for the foreign caregiver. The live-in option is optional meaning that the employer and the worker can decide if the live-in option is suitable to the worker. For this position the employer has to get a positive LMIA and the workers should apply for a regular work permit as temporary foreign workers). 

In order to hire a caregiver, the employer is responsible for finding a foreign worker through personal contacts, advertisements or from hiring agencies. There should be a minimum advertisement effort that an employer should follow through the Job Bank and two additional methods.  The methods of advertisements must target different underrepresented groups, indigenous groups, vulnerable youths, new comers and persons with disability. Employer may apply for stream with high wage position or low wage position.  

Employers can hire foreign nationals only after a positive LMIA is issued by the ESDC. 

If you are the employer planning to hire a foreign caregiver, we are here to help you applying for a LMIA. 

Once the positive LMIA is issued, the employer must provide the employment contract to the foreign workers. The employment contract should contain all important topics such as benefits, hours of work, job duties, payment, housing, vacation, and termination of employment, etc.

If you are already in Canada and have a valid work permit, you may change the employers in this category. If you already have applied for the permanent residency, your application will be processes within the normal processing time.  

Home child care giver pilot and home support worker pilot 

As an alternative the new pilot program has given pathways to those applicants who are interested to come to Canada and apply for the permanent resident. If you have been offered a job in Canada or you have a qualifying work experience as a caregiver in Canada, you are eligible to apply for the program if you fulfill the following requirements. 

Qualifying work experience. 

Qualifying work experience means you have worked full time in the occupations of child care or home support worker, you experience counts. The work must fall under 4411 or 4412 of the National Occupation Classification. 

Don’t have qualifying work experience

Even if you don’t have any qualifying work experience, you can apply for the permanent residence as a Home Child Care Provider Pilot or the Home Support Worker Pilot, if you have the following qualifications. 

Find an employer in Canada who can show that there is a real need of the home child provider or the home support worker. After finding the qualified employer, you have to work for 24 months in the occupation restricted work permit in the same occupation. Once you accumulate the qualifying experience in Canada, then you are eligible for the permanent residence application. Family members who are accompanying the principal applicant will be issued an open work permit under this category and accompanying children can go to school or colleges and make their career. 

Minimum requirements for the program who do not have any qualifying work experience

1. Genuine or valid full-time job offer (no need of LMIA) from a Canadian employer either for the child care or for the home care support. 

2. The applicant must have ability to do the work in Canada. Ability is assessed from your past experience or the work you have done outside Canada or inside Canada. 

3. You must have minimum CLB 5 in English or French language proficiency. 

4. You must have completed one year post secondary education in Canada or must be equivalent to it in the Education Credential Assessment by the designated organizations in Canada. 

If you have a qualifying work experience but it is less than 24 months, 

In such situations too, you can apply for home child caregiver or home support pilot project if you meet these requirements. After fulfilling the requirements, you can apply for permanent resident status. 

Depending your interest, you either can apply for the Home child care support pilot or Home support pilot. You submit a work permit application along with your permanent residence application. if you already have a work permit, you should complete the remaining work experience before applying for the permanent resident. Family members of the applicant can come and work or study in this qualifying period. You must meet the requirements outlined. 

1. Genuine or valid full-time job offer (no need of LMIA) from a Canadian employer either for the child care or for the home care support. 

2. The applicant must have ability to do the work in Canada. Ability is assessed from your past experience or the work you have done outside Canada or inside Canada. 

3. You must have minimum CLB 5 in English or French language proficiency. 

4. You must have completed one year post secondary education in Canada or must be equivalent to it in the Education Credential Assessment by the designated organizations in Canada. 

If you have a total of 24 months of qualifying work experience in the past 36 months, 

You are eligible to apply for the permanent resident after fulfilling these requirements. 

1. Work experience of total of 24 months in the past 36 months. The work experience can either be in the Home Child Care Provider or Home Support Worker. The experience can not be mixed. Experience as a foster parent or a housekeeper does not count for this purpose. The experience you gained during your study does not count as qualifying work experience. 

2. You must have a CLB 5 Either in English or in French. 

3. You must have completed one year post secondary education in Canada or must be equivalent to it in the Education Credential Assessment by the designated organizations in Canada. 

If you are interested to apply under this program, check what documents you need to provide along with the application.