Au Pairs advertise as babysitters?

[Anonymous]

How common is it for au pairs to advertise as babysitters? I have been looking for a sitter and there are very suspicious looking posters who say they are former au pairs in the last year or two. I am not sure how they would legally be able to babysit anyway?

[Anonymous]

Former APs can babysit, if they're here legally. There are a number of ways that could happen, chief among them is if they are now married to a US citizen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How common is it for au pairs to advertise as babysitters? I have been looking for a sitter and there are very suspicious looking posters who say they are former au pairs in the last year or two. I am not sure how they would legally be able to babysit anyway?

Like basically all of them.

[Anonymous]

Unless they are citizens they are illegal to work outside of their au pair hours on the J1 visa, and if they stick around on tourist visa or student visa they are also illegal to work as baby sitters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How common is it for au pairs to advertise as babysitters? I have been looking for a sitter and there are very suspicious looking posters who say they are former au pairs in the last year or two. I am not sure how they would legally be able to babysit anyway?

Like basically all of them.

Yup, I am looking for a sitter now and one fb group is very suspicious "I am free to babysit from 5 pm fridays to 10 pm sundays. I have au pair experience and have been in the US for a year"