IRCC to accept Home Child Care Provider Pilot program applications for 01 January 2024

IRCC to accept Home Child Care Provider Pilot program applications for 01 January 2024

Applicants must have provided in-home care to children under the age of 18, whether in their own home or in the employer's or child's home.

Note: Foster parents are not eligible to apply under the Home Child-Care Provider Pilot.

Qualifying work experience

Qualifying work experience means you’ve worked full-time in Canada in this National Occupational Classification (NOC) job:

• Home child care provider (NOC 44100) under (NOC 2016) or (NOC 44101) under (NOC 2021).
• 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 day-care.
• You don’t need to live in your employer’s home to qualify.
• Experience as a foster parent doesn’t count.
• Full-time work means at least 30 hours of paid work per week.
• Now only need 12 months of experience instead of 24 months to qualify.

Less than 12 months	12 months or more
If you've never worked full-time as a caregiver in Canada or have less than 12 months of work experience, you can apply to the Gaining experience category.	If you’ve worked full-time as a caregiver in Canada for a total of 12 months or more in the last 36 months, you can apply to the Direct to permanence category.

 

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