WaPo story about AuPairCare refusing to let au pair stay after cancer diagnosis

[Anonymous]

Anyone know what happened with this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's a WaPo story about AuPairCare refusing to let an au pair stay in the U.S. to receive treatment after she was diagnosed with cancer.

How cruel and senseless.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/im-going-to-die-an-au-pairs-fight-against-cancer-and-the-effort-to-send-her-home/2016/05/19/4f7ccf80-1b95-11e6-9c81-4be1c14fb8c8_story.html

[Anonymous]

Of course your return to your home country for disease treatment.

Student, vacationer, au pair, biz trip, etc here you don't get free long term care treatments. Only if you have real healthcare plan and read the terms well. The ER doesn't do that type of stuff either.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hang on- there is no issue here, really.:

http://wjla.com/news/local/au-pair-fights-to-stay-in-us-to-continue-receiving-chemotherapy-treatment

"AuPairCare is totally committed to the health and well-being of all of our au pairs. We have been actively in communication with Edna Valenzuela and her host family throughout this process and continue working on Edna's behalf. Edna has been a fantastic au pair, and the love and care between Edna and her host family is clear. Our shared goal is to change Edna's visa so that she can stay in the United States to receive treatment through the clinical trial she is currently participating in through the National Institutes of Health. This visa change will allow Edna to stay in the U.S. and continue receiving her vital cancer treatments and to focus completely on her health. AuPairCare will continue doing everything possible to work with Edna, her host family and the U.S. State Department to ensure Edna receives her new visa status."

The Washington Post already reported Au Pair Care has refused to grant an extension.

Are you saying the pressure on them is forcing them to now allow her to stay?

I don't think you understand what this says. She cannot be granted an extension of the Au Pair visa because she clearly cannot work as an Au Pair any more. What she is doing - and what the agency is working with - is to change her visa from Au Pair to another kind under which she can stay here and receive medical treatment. They are cooperating with her and the Department of State, which is the agency responsible for visa changes inside the U.S., to make that happen.

Here's the order of events:

1. The agency cancelled the au pair's visa before it expired due to her sickness, even though the doctor said she could work.
2. Once the agency was exposed, they said they'd cooperate with the au pair and the host family.

Exactly. Shit on the agency, and all the other agencies just like them.

Shame on these ruthless agencies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She cannot be granted an extension of the Au Pair visa because she clearly cannot work as an Au Pair any more.

Au pair, host family and doctor all say she can.
Many people (have to) work while being treated for cancer.

What she is doing - and what the agency is working with - is to change her visa from Au Pair to another kind under which she can stay here and receive medical treatment.

After it being made public they were canceling her visa and she had to be out of the country within days.
And of course depriving her of a place to stay (she is currently living with her host family who is no longer bound to house her if she is no longer their au pair) and only source of income (au pair stipend).
She may be part of a study so her healthcare might be free but how is she supposed to pay for accommodation and food if they pull the only source of income (as well as her support network) out from under her feet?

Of course your return to your home country for disease treatment.

...if treatment is available for you in your home country.
Which it isn't.
So they are sending her home to die? At 26? Yes, sounds reasonable.

Student, vacationer, au pair, biz trip, etc here you don't get free long term care treatments. Only if you have real healthcare plan and read the terms well. The ER doesn't do that type of stuff either.

She is part of a study (an NIH clinical trial). Her treatment is free. She is not being treated for cancer in an ER but at Howard University Hospital.

If APC was "totally committed to the health and well-being" of Edna they'd let her extend with her HF. If she got too sick to provide the work she was hired for (caring for her HF toddler son) they could always take her out of the program later (on her / her host family's / her doctor's request). Part of her well-being is also her mental well-being and I doubt that is improved by her agency throwing her under the bus right after a cancer diagnosis.

[Anonymous]

News flash - the US State Dept issues and rescinds visas, not the AuPair agency. But then again, let's not let the facts get in the way of a good narrative.

[Anonymous]

This is awful. I've been thinking about getting an au pair and have just begun researching and I for sure will cross this company off my list!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:News flash - the US State Dept issues and rescinds visas, not the AuPair agency. But then again, let's not let the facts get in the way of a good narrative.

The agencies can send home anyone they want to. They don't need permission from the State Department.

[Anonymous]

Was there can American citizen who could have used this care?