Get a job offer

Before you apply, you need a genuine job offer as a home child care provider or home support worker.

Your employer should check for any additional requirements to hire through the Home care worker immigration pilots.

1. You must be likely to accept the job offer and be able to perform the job duties. We’ll review things like your past training and experience to determine this.
2. The job must be:
   • in the National Occupational Classification (NOC) of the pilot you apply for:
     • Home Care Worker Immigration Pilot: Child Care
       • Home child care providers (NOC 44100)
         • The location can’t be an institutional setting such as a daycare.
         • A job as a foster parent doesn’t count.
     • Home Care Worker Immigration Pilot: Home Support
       • Home support workers, caregivers and related occupations (NOC 44101)
         • The location can’t be an institutional setting such as a nursing home.
   • Although work experience and training in these NOCs may be eligible, we won’t accept job offers for:
     • early childhood educators and assistants (NOC 42202)
     • nurse aides, orderlies and patient service associates (NOC 33102)
   • in Canada, outside Quebec
   • full-time and continuous work, meaning
     • at least 30 hours of paid work per week
     • permanent employment (there’s no set end date)
3. The job offer must:
   • include your hourly wage, employment requirements and a description of the main duties
   • be genuine, meaning:
     • there’s a real need to hire you.
     • the employer can fulfil the terms of the job, including paying you.
     • the employer follows all the rules and laws set by
       • Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
       • federal and provincial legislation
     • your wage must be equal to or higher than the Job Bank’s median wage for the occupation listed on your job offer in the province or territory of employment.
       • If there is no provincial or territorial median wage, use the national one.
       • If the employer’s workers have a union, the rules of the collective agreement apply.
     • if your employer is a business (or non-profit organization), they must have been providing the same type of care services as the job for at least 1 year before the job offer was made.
4. The employer must have a Canada Revenue Agency business number and be either

   a private household

   a business (or non-profit organization) that has a direct employer-employee relationship, meaning the employer is directly responsible for:

   • hiring the employee
   • managing work conditions
   • paying the employee

   This includes organizations that directly hire full-time workers to provide short-term or occasional home care for those who are semi-independent or recovering from an injury or illness, for example:

   • home health care service providers
   • home care support service providers
   • direct care agencies
   • personal care services in residential settings
   • pediatric home health care service providers

Employer form

Your employer must complete, sign and give you the employment information form, so you can include it in your application.

Use the correct form based on your employer:

• Individual employers (private households): Individual Employers (IMM 0267) (opens in a new tab)
• Business (or non-profit employers): Business Employers (IMM 0268) (opens in a new tab)

Your employer must sign this form, either digitally or by hand, and you’ll upload it as part of your online application, along with your job offer.

We may send you a letter to give to your employer, asking them to send us extra proof that the job is genuine and the employer is eligible. You’ll receive instructions on how your employer can send us this information.