Work Permit and Live In Caregiver

Work Permit and Live In Caregiver

Work Permit
  • Work temporarily in Canada under your Canadian employer. Most people can come to Canada to work for a maximum of four years.
  • If you are currently working or plan to work in Canada, you should keep track of the total time you have worked and plan to work in Canada.
  • Once you have completed four years of work as a temporary foreign worker in Canada, you will not be eligible to work in Canada again until another period of four years has passed.
Before you are eligible to work again in Canada, you will need to spend 4 consecutive years either:
  • Outside of Canada; or
  • In Canada but not working ( i.e. with legal status as a visitor or student).
  • At that point, you can apply for a work permit and you can start another 4 years of working in Canada.

Live-in Caregiver

To hire a live-in caregiver, you must:
  • Have first made an effort to fill your position with a Canadian, a permanent resident or a foreign worker already in Canada,
  • Have enough income to pay them,
  • Give them an acceptable living space in your home,
  • Make a job offer for caregiving duties for a child, an elderly person or a person with a disability,
  • Apply for a labour market opinion (LMO) from Service Canada and include the employment contract. Service Canada will work with Education and Skills Development Canada (ESDC) to give you an LMO.
  • Caregiving must be the main responsibility of the job. A job offer for which the main duties are house cleaning, for example, is not acceptable under the Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP).
A visa office will carefully screen caregivers before they enter Canada. Caregivers must have:
  • Completed an education equal to that of a Canadian secondary school diploma, at least 6 months of full-time classroom training in caregiving or
  • One year of work experience as a caregiver or in a related job within the last 3 years (including at least 6 months of ongoing work with one employer),
  • The ability to speak, read and understand English or French, so that they can work on their own without being supervised, medical, security and criminal clearances, and
  • A signed written employment contract with an employer in Canada (you).
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