Home Child Care Provider Pilot and Home Support Worker Pilot – Direct to permanent residence category: Who can apply

Eligibility

You may be eligible to apply for the Home Child Care Provider Pilot or Home Support Worker Pilot, if you:

• have enough work experience
• meet the language level
• meet the education requirement
• are admissible to Canada,
• plan to live outside the province of Quebec

Work experience

You must have at least 12 months of full-time work experience in Canada in the 36 months before you apply through the Direct to permanent residence category.

Depending on which pilot you apply for, your work experience must be in 1 of these National Occupational Classification (NOC) jobs:

Home child care provider (NOC 44100)

• You must care for children in your own home or in your employer’s private home.
  • The location can’t be an institutional setting such as a daycare.
• You don’t need to live in your employer’s home to qualify.
• Experience as a foster parent doesn’t count for this pilot.

Home support worker (NOC 44101)

• You must have cared for someone who needs help from a home support worker in your employer’s private home.
  • The location can’t be an institutional setting such as a nursing home.
• You don’t need to have lived in your employer’s home to qualify.
• Only home support workers are eligible under NOC 44101.

For this work experience

• Your qualifying work experience must be in 1 of these jobs. It cannot be a mix of both jobs.
• You must show that your job matched the NOC job description and you must have done most of the main duties.
• Your 12 months of work experience must be gained in the 36-month period before you apply.
• You don’t have to have worked 12 months in a row, just 12 months total, within the 36-month period before you apply.
• Full-time means at least 30 hours of paid work each week.
  • Any week where you worked less than 30 hours doesn’t count.
• Any work experience you had while you were a full-time student doesn’t count.

Language levels

You need to take a language test to prove you meet the minimum language skills.

To measure your English or French skills, we use:

• Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB) for English
• Niveaux de compétence linguistique canadien (NCLC) for French

The minimum language skill is CLB 5 in English or NLCL 5 in French for all 4 language skills:

• writing
• reading
• listening
• speaking

Education

You must have a completed post-secondary education credential of at least 1 year in Canada. If you don’t have a Canadian education credential, you need to get your foreign education credential assessed to show that it’s equal to a completed Canadian post-secondary education credential of at least 1 year.