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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think she is not telling me everything. I am so confused.
She said she was an Aupair for another family then the contract ended and she started living with this current family. That she is on a student visa. That she doesn't get paid but works for another family on weekends and gets paid a little. The family she lives with forgets to buy groceries so she is basically starving. I think this is abuse [/quote]

You need to ask her if she is legal to work in the US. Outside of the Au Pair program, a student visa has a lot of restrictions on work: no more than 20/hrs wk max, she needs permission if it is off-campus employment (this is an F1 visa). If it's a J1 (the au pair visa), she is only legal to work through her program.

I agree that it sounds like she is being exploited. However, you have some decisions to make here. How important is it to you that she be legal to work? How important is it to you to "save" her from the current situation? This is a bad situation all around. I might try to find out what her visa is, and then make some anonymous calls to see what you can do to help. My guess is that she is in the US at least sort of legally (perhaps she transferred to an F1 after J1 was ended), but that she is not legal to work.

You could report what's going on, but that might put her in the cross-hairs of immigration officials. [/quote]

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