You become employers once you hired somebody to work for you, so yes you need to call CRA and let them know ou want to get a business number. After obtaining the number. you can then register with the job bank and advertise for the position for at least 14 days (make sure it is out there, published for at least that amount of time). When no Canadian citizen or permanent resident applied, you can then sign a contract with the nanny of your choice. (Note: you will send a result of the recruitment effort). When your prospective nanny has signed the contract, you'll then be able to apply for the LMO, together with all the requirements needed.
Your household income should be above the LICO (Low Income Cut off, for your family of 4) and plus 1 (the nanny), and the income of the nanny.
Hello everyone,
I'd like to get some information about the live-in caregiver, my husband and I want to hire someone from Peru as a live-in caregiver, we have two children, 2 boys of 4 months and 8 years old. I was looking all over the web and i wasn't able to find information as to how much is required for my husband and I to make a year in order to bring someone from back home, also we know that we need to get the LMO in which is required to have a CRA number, but I thought that only companies need to get this number no just anyone. We are a little confused on regards to this. Do we need to register a business name in order to apply for the CRA, or can we just put our names on the application? The person whom we want to come here is someone we trust and we could live our children with without any worries. We don't know how long it takes to get LMO or how long the whole process takes,.
We are very new at this and we would like help.
thanks
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