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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [b]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."[/b][/quote]

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?[/quote]

Yes. If I read the article correctly, they are not *renewing* her visa, but they are also somehow allowing her to stay on an extension of some kind. It puts her in a legal limbo. Someone in the comments mentioned that there is also a visa for medical treatment she could apply for.

This is why I think her status as a lawyer in Columbia and her host family's status as immigration attorneys means there's more going on here. I suspect that they want a visa status (like the one she had) that would allow her to look for another, more permanent job when the au pair gig ends, with a view to immigrating eventually. Whatever the current visa compromise is means that the host family is basically hosting her as a guest, I think, and she can't look for another job.[/quote]

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