Filipiniana News – June 2017 RHYME & REASON Permanent Residence for Caregivers - Soon to End? At a recent national conference on immigration law, one of the speakers in the panel on caregivers stated that there has been a "paradigm shift" in Canada with respect to the treatment of caregivers. This is based on the fact that recent changes indicate a trend towards eliminating the guarantee of permanent residence for this class of temporary foreign workers. For instance, although the live-in caregiver provisions in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations still exist, they are the in process of being "phased out" after the Ministerial Instructions creating the two new caregiver pathways (Caring for Children and Caring for People with High Medical Needs) took effect on 30 November 2014. These Ministerial Instructions have mandated that no new permanent residence applications under the old Live-in Caregiver Program...