Au Pair staying on

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, have you replaced the child care she was providing with someone else?

I assume not. So wink wink she is still providing child care.

The IRS is totally onto this scam.

This. If you are going to do this, you really need to enroll your kids in daycare or get another nanny/au pair.

And your current au pair won't be able to do things like your kids' laundry, watch them occasionally, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's tax fraud, all it takes is one look/audit!!! Is that a risk you are willing to take for your family? Not me!!!!

I'm PP, YMMV. There is not one thing that indicates we are having her work (which we aren't, really). She helps around the house but our kids are older now and we don't need someone full-time. We are doing this because we love her and she is part of our family.

$20 says once she gets that resident card, she'll bolt and you may get a christmas card every year but that's it.

Lol that’s fine! We are helping her get her resident card with the full knowledge that she will move out and have her own job and life. We have outgrown needing someone anyway. We are just trying to help her be able to stay. Good lord people here are cynical.

[Anonymous]

Call her your long lost cousin who you want to sponsor and offer a room and board. What you all do in your house in nobody's business.
Nowhere doe it say that you cannot pick out a person anywhere in the world and allow them to go to university here. Immigration wants to see that the person has enough money and will be in good standing with the school. Nobody can keep her from going to the store for you and her, sitting at home while the kids are at home (cousin's do that), helping clean up the house she lives in. I've been in international student two times. Living with the sponsor would have been the right thing to so. Not only did I not live with the sponsor, I fell out of status two times and worked somewhere else paying taxes using my own ss #. Not a legal advice, but some of you are just overthinking this. Look up sponsoring a person and forget about the person being an Au Pair. they won't be an Au Pair after you sponsor them.

[Anonymous]

Love it. Yes, we recommend you lie if asked by the IRS or ICE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Call her your long lost cousin who you want to sponsor and offer a room and board. What you all do in your house in nobody's business.
Nowhere doe it say that you cannot pick out a person anywhere in the world and allow them to go to university here. Immigration wants to see that the person has enough money and will be in good standing with the school. Nobody can keep her from going to the store for you and her, sitting at home while the kids are at home (cousin's do that), helping clean up the house she lives in. I've been in international student two times. Living with the sponsor would have been the right thing to so. Not only did I not live with the sponsor, I fell out of status two times and worked somewhere else paying taxes using my own ss #. Not a legal advice, but some of you are just overthinking this. Look up sponsoring a person and forget about the person being an Au Pair. they won't be an Au Pair after you sponsor them.

I think you are confusing "overthinking" with "trying to sort out what is legal and ethical". You seem to have that issue anyway.
Yes, it's illegal. Yes, it's unethical. You do you.