Sponsoring former AP

[Anonymous]

How common is it for host families to sponsor an support that is aging out of the program. An acquaintance of mine is an AP and nervous to ask her host family of nearly 2 years to sponsor her, but she needs a sponsor to stay in the US. Her charge plays with my kids and I am not familiar with the AP program. Is it a burden for the family? Is it common practice? Any info is appreciated, thank you.

[Anonymous]

It’s impossible. They can’t work for you basically under any of the visas with which this could be done. We spent $$$ trying to pull it off.

[Anonymous]

Is she looking to stay in the US and continue to work for the same family?
Or was she planning to go to school, get a different job, etc?

[Anonymous]

There is NO legal method for immigration where the family can sponsor her. The AP program is always meant to have the AP return home. Childcare is not a skill that APs can apply to immigrate.

Some families will sponsor for a student visa (pay the agency fees to the school instead) and keep the same childcare arrangement under the table (phone, stipend, room and board). However, this is illegal.

A legal method (and nothing to do with the family) is to get married then apply for a green card.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is NO legal method for immigration where the family can sponsor her. The AP program is always meant to have the AP return home. Childcare is not a skill that APs can apply to immigrate.

Some families will sponsor for a student visa (pay the agency fees to the school instead) and keep the same childcare arrangement under the table (phone, stipend, room and board). However, this is illegal.

A legal method (and nothing to do with the family) is to get married then apply for a green card.

The student visa is pretty common; not usually done in dc area because it can ruin security clearances and federal job ability.

Outside of dc the typical scam is host family deposits 10-12k in aps account; they enroll in a class and they go back to home country. Prove they have funds in bank and a place to live and come back as a student.

[Anonymous]

Ha. Very risky for the HF. Why would you ever do that. My APs friend got her HF to sponsor her as a student. Spent money on attorneys. Then she got pregnant within a few months and left the family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is NO legal method for immigration where the family can sponsor her. The AP program is always meant to have the AP return home. Childcare is not a skill that APs can apply to immigrate.

Some families will sponsor for a student visa (pay the agency fees to the school instead) and keep the same childcare arrangement under the table (phone, stipend, room and board). However, this is illegal.

A legal method (and nothing to do with the family) is to get married then apply for a green card.

Even then the AP can’t inmediately start working for the family.

[Anonymous]

I've know several Au Pairs who were "sponsored" by their host families. I worked for them later, but the other left the family and worked in restaurants until she received her degree.
See if the AU Pair's family can find the money in order to receive a student visa. I wouldn't bother the host family with it. Not sure where she is from, but even my poor relatives can find 30-50k euros needed for student visa. The rest of the money needs to be earned the same way millions of illegal do it. She should study to become a nurse if she she'd like a chance to get a work permit here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've know several Au Pairs who were "sponsored" by their host families. I worked for them later, but the other left the family and worked in restaurants until she received her degree.
See if the AU Pair's family can find the money in order to receive a student visa. I wouldn't bother the host family with it. Not sure where she is from, but even my poor relatives can find 30-50k euros needed for student visa. The rest of the money needs to be earned the same way millions of illegal do it. She should study to become a nurse if she she'd like a chance to get a work permit here.

[Anonymous]

People do it. In this horrific anti-immigrant climate, it is not safe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: but even my poor relatives can find 30-50k euros needed for student visa

Somebody needs to work on the definition of "poor". I am in no way from a "poor" country or from a "poor" background and there is no way my comfortably middle-class EU family could have scratched together 50k for a student visa (without a loan, which they would never have gotten for "my daughter wants to study in the US"). If your "poor" relatives can find 30-50k for a student... good for them. Not "poor" though.