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[quote=Anonymous]1. Make it harder to rematch. Perhaps a re-match fee by AP if there reason for rematch as trivial as I don’t like the city, or I need my own car or I am interested in school aged kids and fee to family if reason making AP working in excessive hours, restricting there free time…, A reasonable fee maybe $500. The agency would not lose anything and would make money from the fee.

2. The require AP go back home and re-apply. This option would limit pool of APs available for re-match, only APs available would be the 2nd year renewal. This not ideal because the HF would lose money if they don’t re-match.

3. Give AP 1 week to rematch if they are the ones asking to rematch for a trivial reason
 and give the HF more time and the other way round if the HF to s the he one not from following the rules.

I know that the recommendations would go nowhere but not I am just frustrated with the program. I think it is so flawed and is a disappointment to a lot of families. We spent a lot of time vetting her. We talked to her parents, grand parents and aunt and Uncle. She talked to our extended family. We connected her with some AP in the area and she was able to talk to them before we even did the match. The first month was great, the was a great deal of culture exchange between us. We were enjoying it, she appeared to as well. After the first month she started hanging out more with her AP friends. By 6 weeks she retreated to her room whenever we were home. I tried to check how things were going she acted like nothing was wrong. When tried to press a little she said she was just home sick. Two weeks later she asked to rematch. Her reasons? 1. She wanted to live close to the big city. We live about 45 minutes outside of said city but she says she has live just outside of the city within 10-15 minutes. She knew exactly her far we liv d from this city before we matched. If anything, we told her we liv d 1 hour away. I asked if there was any other reason. They was independent  in her country with her own car and did like that she couldn’t take the car long distance. My husband who travels for work let her use his car. About 85% of the car’s use being by her and a great majority of those time were for her personal use. The only restriction being the it had to be 150 mile radius or 2 hours one way from home and couldn’t take a weekend trip with the car. At this point I am just frustrated with the program and I think it fails many families by having such a easy process for rematch. AP come here with the intension to more on to greener pastures.[/quote]

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