provide care on a full-time basis (minimum 30 hours per week)
Families can hire a foreign caregiver to provide care, in a private residence, to children, seniors or persons with certified medical needs, when Canadians and permanent residents are not available.
However, the caregivers must:
- work in the private household where the care is being provided
- meet the requirements set Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)/Service Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
These families or private household employers will be able to hire foreign workers for 2 categories of in-home workers, which include:
Caregivers for children
- Children under 18 years of age
Caregivers for people with high medical needs
- elderly persons, 65 years of age or over
- people with disabilities, a chronic or terminal illness