Home Child Care Provider Pilot and Home Support Worker Pilot – Direct to permanent residence category: Who can apply
The pilot caps reset on January 1, 2023
As of January 1, 2023, you can apply under the 2023 caps for the Home Child Care Provider Pilot and the Home Support Worker Pilot.
There are changes to the 2023 application process Updated May 19, 2023
We made changes to these pilots on April 30, 2023. As part of these changes, you now need only 12 months of qualifying work experience instead of 24 months.
Some pages on our site haven’t been updated yet. We’ll update them with the details of these changes as soon as possible.
Read all the changes to these pilots before you apply. Make sure you follow our updated instructions.
The Home Support Worker Pilot is open to new applications
In 2023, we’ll accept up to the following number of applications in each category:
- Gaining experience category: 1,650 applications
- Direct to permanent residence category: 1,100 applications
The Home Child Care Provider Pilot
Gaining experience category
All caps have been reached for the Gaining experience category
This means the Gaining experience category is closed to new applications for 2023.
- You won’t be able to start or submit an application for this category in our portal, and any paper applications will be returned.
- Online applications that weren’t submitted will expire from the portal after about 30 days.
Applications for this category will reopen in 2024. You can also explore other immigration programs.
Direct to permanent residence category
The online application cap has been reached for the Direct to permanent residence category
- You won’t be able to start or submit an application for this category in our portal.
- Online applications that weren’t submitted will expire from the portal after about 30 days.
Online applications for this category will reopen in 2024. You can also explore other immigration programs.
The alternate format cap for this category remains open to new applications.
2023 caps
In 2023, we’ll accept up to the following number of applications in each category:
- Gaining experience category: 1,650 applications, including
- 1,500 online applications Closed as of January 1, 2023
- 150 alternate format applications Closed as of February 1, 2023
- Direct to permanent residence category: 1,100 applications, including
- 1,000 online applications Closed as of April 19, 2023
- 100 alternate format applications
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.
You must wait until you have completed 12 months of full-time work experience before you apply under the Direct to permanent residence category. If you don’t, we will refuse your application.
- Any experience you get after submitting your application doesn’t count.
If you have less than 12 months of full-time work experience, you can also apply through the Gaining experience 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.
National Occupational Classification 2021
On November 16, 2022, we switched to the 2021 version of the National Occupational Classification (NOC).
If you submitted an application before November 16, 2022, your job offer or qualifying work experience will still be assessed as per the NOC 2016 requirements.
- Home child care provider – NOC 4411 was replaced with NOC 44100
- Home support worker – NOC 4412 was replaced with NOC 44101
Transition to NOC 2021
If you are applying under NOC 2021 in the Gaining experience category, we will still accept NOC 2016 job offers during the transition period. Your job offer will be considered valid so long as it meets the listed eligibility criteria of the Home Child Care Provider Pilot or Home Support Worker Pilot.
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.
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