Important Information for Live-in Caregivers The website of Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) provides ample information on the rights of temporary foreign workers and the law. Therefore, live-in caregivers would need to confirm that their employers still wish to hire them. Only after confirming this should they finalise their plans of departing for Canada. In

The Contact List Applicants might have questions, difficulties or complaints pertaining to their employment as live-in caregivers. To address these, they would need to call or visit the labour or employment standards branch for their province or territory. The counsellors at these offices would be able to answer questions that these workers have about their

This section is applicable to live-in caregivers or domestic workers. This fact sheet serves to outline employment standards legislation applicable to live-in caregivers in each province or territory. The federal government has the responsibility for running the Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP). However, the employment standards legislation pertaining to caregivers and domestic workers remains within provincial

The Refusal Letter – Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP) Work Permit – The Applicant Does Not Meet Program Requirements [Insert letterhead] Our Ref.: [Insert address] Dear: I have completed my assessment of your application for a work permit in Canada as a live-in caregiver. I have determined that you do not meet the requirements of the

This process will usually take place once the live-in caregiver has completed the Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP) and applied for permanent residence. The Requirements for the Visa Office The officers would typically receive notifications stating that the live-in caregiver applicants (or principal applicants) have dependent family members residing abroad. In this scenario, the visa office

The Commencement of the Process for Selecting Live-in Caregivers The authorities have designed the selection process in such as manner so as to ensure that the prospective employer and employee take the entire responsibility for obtaining all the necessary information and application forms. This renders the visa offices free to focus on providing a timely

Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) or Service Canada have the requisite mandates for assessing the impact that the hiring of temporary foreign workers is likely to have on the Canadian labour market. This is in accordance to the provisions specified in R203. There might be many situations where prospective employers in Canada are interested

The Places for the Processing of the Initial Work Permit Applications For participating in the Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP), foreign nationals would need to make applications for initial live-in caregiver work permits at Canadian visa offices abroad. The Canadian visa offices abroad would then review the applications under the Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP) for completeness.

What This Chapter is About This chapter detailed the overseas processing of work permit applications under the provisions of the Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP). It also describes the manner in which the officers would need to process overseas applications for permanent residence from live-in caregivers’ family members who are living outside Canada. Readers wold need

This section contains details on policy, procedures and guidance that Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) staff typically use. The authorities have posted this on the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) website as a courtesy to stakeholders. The Guidelines for Approvals To finalise the case, the Case Processing Centre in Vegreville (CPC-V) would need