Au Pair Visas / J-1 Visas now banned until 2021

[Anonymous]

Sorry parents. The administration just cancelled all forms of work or program visas including the J-1 Visa which parents use to bring in Au Pairs from other countries.

Au Pair in America has been designated by the U.S. Government as an Exchange Visitor Program, enabling participants to use the J-1 visa. The J-1 visa permits Au Pair in America participants to reside legally in the United States for 12 months while caring for children in a program-approved host family.

[Anonymous]

This also means foreign nannies from established companies can no longer work here. So if you hired a full-time nanny on a HB-1 visa or J-1 visa because she's fluent in French or Chinese, most likely that option too is gone.

You can still hire the under-the-table nannies maybe...just hope immigration doesn't show up at your house.

[Anonymous]

Ive heard there’s a carve out for au pairs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ive heard there’s a carve out for au pairs

It didn't make it into the Executive Order.

[Anonymous]

Darn. We were about to apply for a green card.

[Anonymous]

It really sucks for this option to be eliminated during an unprecedented childcare crisis. There are very few safe options right now, and an au pair was amongst the safest. I'm sure there aren't nannies sitting at home twiddling their thumbs right now. Ugh

[Anonymous]

One way to get educated women out of the workforce and back into the kitchen.

[Anonymous]

Why would he do this?? Ugh

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This also means foreign nannies from established companies can no longer work here. So if you hired a full-time nanny on a HB-1 visa or J-1 visa because she's fluent in French or Chinese, most likely that option too is gone.

You can still hire the under-the-table nannies maybe...just hope immigration doesn't show up at your house.

I don't think nannies have ever been hireable under the aitch one bee program unless the employer presented them as teachers. It's also not an option for the J-1 program. A nanny with either of these visas is....something sketchy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This also means foreign nannies from established companies can no longer work here. So if you hired a full-time nanny on a HB-1 visa or J-1 visa because she's fluent in French or Chinese, most likely that option too is gone.

You can still hire the under-the-table nannies maybe...just hope immigration doesn't show up at your house.

I don't think nannies have ever been hireable under the aitch one bee program unless the employer presented them as teachers. It's also not an option for the J-1 program. A nanny with either of these visas is....something sketchy.

Umm, no. Au Pairs are legitimate— they come over primarily for education and cultural exchange under the J1. Families offer housing and the au pair agrees to provide childcare (a set # hours a week) for a stipend. It works well for almost every family I’ve known use an au pair service...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This also means foreign nannies from established companies can no longer work here. So if you hired a full-time nanny on a HB-1 visa or J-1 visa because she's fluent in French or Chinese, most likely that option too is gone.

You can still hire the under-the-table nannies maybe...just hope immigration doesn't show up at your house.

I don't think nannies have ever been hireable under the aitch one bee program unless the employer presented them as teachers. It's also not an option for the J-1 program. A nanny with either of these visas is....something sketchy.

Umm, no. Au Pairs are legitimate— they come over primarily for education and cultural exchange under the J1. Families offer housing and the au pair agrees to provide childcare (a set # hours a week) for a stipend. It works well for almost every family I’ve known use an au pair service...

Au pairs aren't nannies, I didn't mean them above.

[Anonymous]

Do the au pairs already here have to return or just no new au pairs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do the au pairs already here have to return or just no new au pairs?

No new APs. Normally, it’s a 1 year program, second year allowed as an extension. Because many APs finishing their 2nd year can’t get a repatriation flight, they’re doing a one-time-only extra 6 month extension (through the end of the ban).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One way to get educated women out of the workforce and back into the kitchen.

Men can just as easily care for their children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One way to get educated women out of the workforce and back into the kitchen.

Men can just as easily care for their children.

And yet somehow they don’t.