Who can apply
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 to 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 experience
If you have less than 12 months of full-time work experience, you can 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.
- Your employer can be a private individual or a business.
- You don’t need to live in your employer’s home to qualify.
- Experience as a foster parent doesn’t count.
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.
- Your employer can be a private individual or a business.
- You don’t need to have lived in your employer’s home to qualify.
Your qualifying work experience must:
- be in 1 of these NOCs (home child care provider or home support worker)
- It cannot be a mix of both NOCs.
- match the NOC job description and you must have done most of the main duties listed
- have been gained in the 36-month period before you send your application
- You don’t have to have worked 12 months in a row, just 12 months total, within that period.
- Any experience you get after submitting your application doesn’t count.
- be full-time authorized work in Canada
- 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.
- The work can have been authorized under a work permit, as well as under maintained status or a public policy.
- Experience working for a business can also 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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