Home Child Care Provider Pilot and Home Support Worker Pilot (HCCP/HSW) Closed and Update New Changes

​As of June 17, 2024 , The Home Child Care Provider Pilot and the Home Support Worker Pilot ended and closed. 
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada are no longer accepting new applications but will continue to process application they received on or before this date. 

The Home Child Care Provider Pilot and the Home Support Worker Pilot are 5-year pilot programs that let qualified caregivers and their family members come to Canada with the goal of becoming permanent residents.If you’ve been offered a job in Canada as a caregiver or have experience working in Canada as a caregiver, you may be able to apply for permanent residence through one of these pilots.
The application process will be different depending on your situation and how much qualifying work experience you have.
Qualifying work experienceQualifying work experience means you’ve worked full-time in Canada 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.

Home support worker (NOC 44101)

• You must care 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 live in your employer’s home to qualify.

Here are the New changes to the pilots.
Updated June 24, 2024
These changes are now in effect and apply to all applications being processed:

• You only need 6 months of work experience, instead of 12, to qualify.
• For the Gaining experience category, we’ll accept eligible work experience
  • from inside or outside Canada
  • gained anytime between the 36-month period before you submitted your permanent residence application and the date you provide proof of work experience

If you already applied to the Gaining experience category and now have enough eligible work experience, you can send us proof.
Less than 12 months in Canada
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.
12 months or more in Canada
If you’ve worked full-time as a caregiver in Canada for 12 months or more in the last 36 months, you can apply to the Direct to permanent residence category.

For more information please visit IRCC website :

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/caregivers/child-care-home-support-worker.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR10zV4te0ZneTdu