Caregiver Program Reform and Establishment of Caring for Children and Caring for People with High Medical Needs Classes
Validated finding · five-country-2010-20260922-v118-evidence-presentation-fix
Policy effect
Ministerial Instructions closed intake under the legacy Live-in Caregiver Class (requiring an LMIA requested on or before November 30, 2014 to apply) and established two new economic pathway classes: the Caring for Children Class and the Caring for People with High Medical Needs Class, eliminating the live-in requirement and setting specific educational and language requirements. Phase scope: Nationwide for all foreign caregiver workers and permanent residence applications submitted on or after November 30, 2014.
Conditions and exceptions
Validated condition or limit: Ministerial Instructions closed intake under the legacy Live-in Caregiver Class (requiring an LMIA requested on or before November 30, 2014 to apply) and established two new economic pathway classes: the Caring for Children Class and the Caring for People with High Medical Needs Class, eliminating the live-in requirement and setting specific educational and language requirements.; Phase scope: Nationwide for all foreign caregiver workers and permanent residence applications submitted on or after November 30, 2014.
Official source excerpt
Quoted verbatim from the official source below. Ellipses indicate omitted text.
No new permanent resident application under the Live-in Caregiver Class [section 113 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (IRPR)] will be accepted for processing unless it is supported, at the time of application receipt by CIC, by evidence that the underlying work permit associated with the foreign national's initial entry as a live-in caregiver under the Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP) was based on a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) that was requested from Service Canada on or before November 30, 2014.Retrieved from https://gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2014/2014-11-29/html/notice-avis-eng.html
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- 2014-02-06Order Fixing February 6, 2014 as the Day on which Sections 170 and 171 of the Act Come into Force
- 2014-02-06Restructuring and Fee Revision of Temporary Resident Visa and Temporary Permit Applications
- 2014-05-01Federal Skilled Worker Class application intake cap and stream criteria established (MI11)
- 2014-06-01Regulations Amending the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations
- 2014-06-19Automatic removal stay restored for a bounded group of refugee claimants denied an appeal
- 2014-06-19Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1
- 2014-06-20Performing-artist work-permit exemption extended to bars and restaurants
- 2014-08-01Order Fixing August 1, 2014 as the Day on which Certain Provisions of the Act Come into Force
- 2014-08-01Reduction of Dependent Child Age Limit and Age Lock-In Framework
- 2014-08-01Regulations Amending the Citizenship Regulations
- 2014-10-24Streamlined Departure Orders for Cessation of Refugee Protection
- 2014-11-22Start-up Business Class education requirement removed