AP that harmed my children is now AP again!

[Anonymous]

I just found out that my former AP that had been neglectful is now an AP in the states again. I won't get into specifics but she left my young children alone in the car and one of them got hurt. She was immediately sent home and I spent the rest of the year feeling guilty for not seeing the warning signs of her ways. I assumed she would be unemployeable as a AP again after this incident, but now she's working on the west coast with 4 kids. How can this happen? I've never had an agency or family aks me for recommendation or question her experience! This is very telling of the entire AP program and worrisome for families considering an AP.

[Anonymous]

You know, one time my sister wasn't watching her baby enough and the baby fell off her bed. She's still allowed to be in charge of her baby. But I know she never is more than an arms' length away from the baby when she's on the bed now.

Perhaps your AP learned from her mistake and won't make it again.

[Anonymous]

I let a 16 month old get hurt on my watch, his mom still loves having me watch him. Sorry you want this person to never work again, but sometimes kids just get hurt!

[Anonymous]

My main point is that these girls are clearly lnot vetted by the agencies and some families, but instead just shuffled around. The once incident was the final straw, there were plenty of others that happened that I made the agency aware of, but naively have the AP many chances to redeem herself.

[Anonymous]

Having a child fall on your watch is one thing, leaving them alone in a car for a lengthy amount of time is another.

[Anonymous]

She did not successfully complete her first AP year with you?
In that case she shouldn't be eligible for a new AP visa according to DOS regulation.

"US Department of State Exchange Visitors Program 22 CFR 62.31 - Au pairs
(p) Repeat participation. A foreign national who
enters the United States as an au pair Exchange Visitor Program participant and
who has successfully completed his or her program is eligible to participate
again as an au pair participant, provided that he or she has resided outside
the United States for at least two years following completion of his or her
initial au pair program."

If she is - legally - back in the US, this isn't even an agency oversight (she could have lied to the agency and not mentioned her previous attempt) but she should never have received the necessary visa!

[Anonymous]

OP, people grow up, and oftentimes, this goes hand in hand with maturing and becoming more responsible. I'm sorry for what happened to your child while in this AP's care, but that doesn't mean the AP will make the same mistake again. It's very possible, and highly likely, that the AP learned from that experience. I don't think it's okay that you now want her to never be able to find work. That's a little harsh and a little too much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, people grow up, and oftentimes, this goes hand in hand with maturing and becoming more responsible. I'm sorry for what happened to your child while in this AP's care, but that doesn't mean the AP will make the same mistake again. It's very possible, and highly likely, that the AP learned from that experience. I don't think it's okay that you now want her to never be able to find work. That's a little harsh and a little too much.

Cannot believe what I am reading here.

And it's not that the AP can never again find work. She should never again be able to work in the AP program, and take advantage of this visa program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She should never again be able to work in the AP program, and take advantage of this visa program.

Which should be true for any AP that got sent home early and didn't successfully complete their year.

OP, was your AP in her second year? Was she rematched instead of sent home? Are you sure she is with an agency?
Even if an agency accepted her (which they shouldn't), a US embassy would violate the US visa regulations by giving her a new J1 AP visa, which should at least be caught by CBP on entry. What you are describing is not an agency issue but agains visa regulations... [Unless she was in her second year, in which case completing the first year would make her eligible or she wasn't sent home...]