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Caregiver — home care worker pilots — document checklist
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Caregiver — home care worker pilots — document checklist
Closed to new applications
Closed to new applications since 31 March 2026 under Ministerial Instructions 91. IRCC is still processing applications already received. The earlier Home Child Care Provider and Home Support Worker pilots closed in June 2024, and no replacement permanent caregiver programme has been announced — the only live caregiver route today is a temporary work permit.
Status checked September 2026 against the official IRCC page. The list below is kept for reference — applications already in the queue are still being processed against these rules.
Kept for people whose application is already in the queue, and for anyone working out what changed.
7 documents 4 where refusals happen Government fee $1,590 incl. RPRF
Identity
Who is this person, and is the story consistent?Where files fail here: Names, dates or passport details that disagree across documents.
Generic application and background forms
Filed in the PR Portal alongside Schedule A and the family information form.
Valid passport
Checked against every other document in the file.
Eligibility
Do they meet this program's bar, on paper?Where files fail here: A requirement evidenced by assertion instead of a document.
Job offer for full-time home care work
Child care under NOC 44100 or 42202, home support under NOC 44101 or 33102. Kept here because applications already in the queue are still being processed against these rules.
Six months of relevant full-time experience, or a recent training credential
Experience must be continuous and within the past three years. A relevant credential completed in the past two years was accepted instead.
Language test at CLB 4 in all four abilities
A low bar by federal standards, but it is all four abilities — a single band below 4 fails the whole test.
Canadian high school diploma, or an ECA showing equivalency
Foreign schooling earns nothing without the assessment, and the assessment is the slowest item in this file.
Schedule 21 — Home Care Worker Immigration Pilots
The programme-specific schedule. Guide 0104, which older checklists cite, is archived.
General information, not legal advice. This checklist is prepared by CHK Immigration Services Inc. and was checked against the Government of Canada’s published requirements on the date shown. Requirements change and vary by case, and IRCC generates a personalised document list for many applications — where that list or canada.ca differs from this document, they govern.
Lead times are planning estimates, not guarantees. Police certificates and credential assessments in particular vary widely by country and provider. IRCC makes all final decisions.
CHK Immigration Services Inc. is an immigration consultancy with offices in Brampton and London, Ontario. Our consultants are regulated by the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants (CICC). Nothing in this document creates a client–consultant relationship.
Current version: https://chkimmigration.ca/checklists/caregiver
Checked against the official IRCC page for this application in September 2026. Where that page disagrees with anything here, it wins. General information, not legal advice. Lead times are planning estimates, not guarantees — police certificates and credential assessments in particular vary widely by country and provider. IRCC also generates a personalised checklist for many applications, and that list governs. IRCC makes all final decisions.
Having the documents is not the same as having a persuasive file.
Every item above can be present and correct and the application can still be refused — on intent, on a date that does not reconcile, or on a lead time that ran out. A licensed consultant reads it the way an officer will.
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