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That is how APIA was working for a long time during the pandemic. If you weren't in rematch, you couldn't see a rematch aupair. So there wasn't a way that an extension family could match with a rematching aupair.

We are an NIE family and had no issues with our aupair arriving and staying with our family. I could see how it could work out otherwise. NIE families aren't necessarily the "easiest" because we have a reason for being in that category to begin with.[/quote]

The Facebook groups make this totally null and void. Au pairs can connect with any family and any family can connect with au pair who is looking. Many families and au pairs will switch agencies just to get with each other. I wish there was a way to circumvent that but there is not.[/quote]

I think you're misinformed.  Sure, a family can switch at any point in time, but they lose whatever fee they already paid to the agency.  And APs can't switch agencies.[/quote]

Families can register with multiple agencies at once and pick the agency of the AP who they meet on FB.  And most agencies don't care if the lose whatever fee they lose, b/c they are still making $$ off of NIE families. I think YOU are misinformed[/quote]

Families can list themselves with multiple agencies prior to making a match, sure.  But as I said, if they switch agencies after matching with one AP, they lose whatever fee remains.

Agencies don't lose any money on families switching instead of finding a rematch.  In fact, they retain a good portion of the money.

APs can't switch once they have their visa that lists one agency.  They're stuck with that agency until they return to their home country, then they can choose a different agency for a return trip two years later.  However, most APs don't come back for a second time.  If they want more time, they extend through the same agency that brought them to the US.[/quote]

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