Home Child Care Provider Pilot and Home Support Worker Pilot – Gaining experience category: Get your work experience

Occupation-restricted open work permit

To get the work experience you need to qualify for permanent residence, you’ll get an occupation-restricted open work permit. This permit lets you work temporarily in Canada.

With this work permit:

• you must work as a home child care provider (NOC 44100) or home support worker (NOC 44101) depending on the pilot you apply for
  • Care must be provided in a private home. The location can’t be in an institutional setting such as a daycare or nursing home.
• you can work for any employer that gives you a job offer meeting the above requirements.^{Footnote 1}
• your employer doesn’t need a Labour Market Impact Assessment to hire you
• you can change employers without getting a new work permit or a new job offer
• your dependents are eligible to apply for an open work permit or a study permit

Work experience you need to support your permanent residence application

To support your application for permanent residence, you need at least 12 months of qualifying work experience, within the 36-month time period before you send us proof.

You don’t have to have worked 12 months in a row, just 12 months total, in the 36-month time period. This time period includes any work experience you had before you applied.

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.
• show that your job matched the NOC job description and you must have done most of the main duties
• 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.

Make sure to keep any documents to show that you have 12 months of work experience.

Send us proof of your work experience

When you have 12 months of qualifying work experience, you must

• complete the Schedule 19b: Home Child Care Provider or Home Support Worker – Work Experience form [IMM 5910] (PDF, 2.26 MB), and
• send it to us with proof of your qualifying work experience

You must send us this proof no later than 36 months (3 years) after you get your work permit.

Send us a copy of the following documents to show that you have 12 months of work experience

• your T4 tax information slips and your notice of assessment (NOA) issued by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
  • When submitting your tax information, hide or cover your social insurance number (SIN) to protect your personal information.
• reference letters from your employer(s) with this information included
  • the specific period you were employed (start and end dates)
  • your position
  • a description of your main responsibilities and duties
  • your job’s the National Occupational Classification (NOC) code (if you know it)
  • your total annual salary and benefits
  • the number of hours you worked per week
  • your employer’s
    • name and signature
    • full address
    • telephone number
    • email address (if this applies)
• any Record of Employment (ROE) you were issued
  • Your employer is required to provide an ROE to you if you stop working for them.

You can also include any pay stubs, work contracts, or job offers.

After we receive proof of your work experience, we’ll make a final decision on your permanent residence based on

• whether your work experience meets the requirement and
• if you’re still admissible to Canada
  • You may have to take another medical exam and submit new police certificates.