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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're advertising for a "gap year" Canadian who will act as our "distance learning supervisor" in return for travel expenses, room board, Metro passes, gift cards etc.  Gap year girl or guy's job will be to keep our 2 upper grades kids track to complete their DCPS' DL assignments, jazzing content up a bit with games, songs, activities.  We sucked as home schooling parents in the spring and want live-in help this time around.  We've advertised on a couple Canadian job sites geared to young people and are receiving promising sounding inquiries.  Canadians can still travel to the US on 6-month tourist visas that are issued automatically.  They can stay with American families as unpaid guests.  Canadian tourists can no longer cross land borders but can still fly in.  We're currently checking references and interviewing applicants and expect to have a young person in the house to supervise most of our children's DL by Labor Day.  We hosted au pairs on J-1 visas for years, so not a big change for us (just no more J-1 visas in the mix as the WH has frozen au pair visas at least til the end of the year). [/quote]

I really want to know why you need this person to be Canadian? [/quote]

Unless you can pay pretty well, it's not easy to attract a capable 20-something American citizen to work mostly for room and board.  But if the gig is a cultural experience (chance to explore DC and the US) you do better.  Canadians can still fly in, and can qualify for automatic 6-month visas (no visa interview).  [/quote]

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