Anonymous
05/24/2016 15:57
Subject: WaPo story about AuPairCare refusing to let au pair stay after cancer diagnosis
Read this more detailed summary from the host mom and then decide:
https://www.change.org/p/aupaircare-against-to-the-decision-with-aupaircare-in-edna-valenzuela-case?recruiter=542065886&utm_source=petitions_share&utm_medium=copylink
https://www.change.org/p/aupaircare-against-to-the-decision-with-aupaircare-in-edna-valenzuela-case?recruiter=542065886&utm_source=petitions_share&utm_medium=copylink
Anonymous
05/24/2016 13:56
Subject: WaPo story about AuPairCare refusing to let au pair stay after cancer diagnosis
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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. 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."
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?
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.
You can't look for a permanent job with an eye towards immigrating any more easily on an au pair visa than on a tourist visa. APC don't want her on their visa because they don't want to have any tenuous connection to her/liability for anything that happens. All they're doing at the moment is not cancelling *her current visa* (which they originally threatened to do!) which expires in a month.
Anonymous
05/24/2016 13:20
Subject: WaPo story about AuPairCare refusing to let au pair stay after cancer diagnosis
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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. 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."
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?
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.
There's really no excuse for the AP agency to have denied her the second year extension. Don't make up excuses for their egregious behavior towards the Au Pair and her host family.
Anonymous
05/24/2016 13:16
Subject: WaPo story about AuPairCare refusing to let au pair stay after cancer diagnosis
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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. 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."
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?
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.
Anonymous
05/24/2016 13:11
Subject: WaPo story about AuPairCare refusing to let au pair stay after cancer diagnosis
Another scum agency.
Anonymous
05/24/2016 12:54
Subject: WaPo story about AuPairCare refusing to let au pair stay after cancer diagnosis
Anonymous wrote: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. 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."
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?
Anonymous
05/24/2016 12:51
Subject: WaPo story about AuPairCare refusing to let au pair stay after cancer diagnosis
Anonymous wrote:The very end of the story also says that she's a lawyer back in Columbia. Here, she's working for immigration lawyers.
She should absolutely be allowed to stay, but there are layers upon layers here that are not in this story, I think.
Also, I understand the agency's position. They are not in the home. They have no way to make sure that she isn't overworked while in treatment, and if the worst were to happen, can you imagine the story we would hear about the exploitation of another au pair?
This. It seems very cut and dry in the article, but I'm sure it's not. I'm not necessarily saying that APC is doing the right thing, but I don't know that we have all the details or that we can fully appreciate how challenging this is for all sides.
Anonymous
05/24/2016 12:51
Subject: WaPo story about AuPairCare refusing to let au pair stay after cancer diagnosis
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. 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."
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. 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."
Anonymous
05/24/2016 12:48
Subject: WaPo story about AuPairCare refusing to let au pair stay after cancer diagnosis
APC has given her kind of a loophole at least:
"We are supportive of Edna and her host parents as they actively apply to change her visa," recta statement posted on AuPairCare's website read. "She will remain on our program while she applies to change her visa. This way she can remain in the US, and focus on her health and cancer treatment."
She can just drag this out if needed.
"We are supportive of Edna and her host parents as they actively apply to change her visa," recta statement posted on AuPairCare's website read. "She will remain on our program while she applies to change her visa. This way she can remain in the US, and focus on her health and cancer treatment."
She can just drag this out if needed.
Anonymous
05/24/2016 12:40
Subject: WaPo story about AuPairCare refusing to let au pair stay after cancer diagnosis
My God, EVERY single Au Pair Care client here should demand that they step-up and do the right thing here.
This is BEYOND evil. It could be the end of them.
Anonymous
05/24/2016 11:56
Subject: WaPo story about AuPairCare refusing to let au pair stay after cancer diagnosis
The very end of the story also says that she's a lawyer back in Columbia. Here, she's working for immigration lawyers.
She should absolutely be allowed to stay, but there are layers upon layers here that are not in this story, I think.
Also, I understand the agency's position. They are not in the home. They have no way to make sure that she isn't overworked while in treatment, and if the worst were to happen, can you imagine the story we would hear about the exploitation of another au pair?
She should absolutely be allowed to stay, but there are layers upon layers here that are not in this story, I think.
Also, I understand the agency's position. They are not in the home. They have no way to make sure that she isn't overworked while in treatment, and if the worst were to happen, can you imagine the story we would hear about the exploitation of another au pair?
Anonymous
05/24/2016 11:49
Subject: WaPo story about AuPairCare refusing to let au pair stay after cancer diagnosis
I think it's important to acknowledge that APC was following its own protocol which is designed to actually help APs get medical help when something serious happens. 99% of the time going home where they can use their own insurance or state health plan is the way to go. This whole thing is a HUGE exception- She got enrolled in a study, the care is free and she can't get the same care at home.
While APC should have worked out an exception before this went to WaPo, it's not as black and white an issue as the article makes it seem.
While APC should have worked out an exception before this went to WaPo, it's not as black and white an issue as the article makes it seem.
Anonymous
05/24/2016 11:41
Subject: Re:WaPo story about AuPairCare refusing to let au pair stay after cancer diagnosis
Generally, I support au pair programs. My family has a wonderful au pair.
Still, I am appalled by AuPairCare's actions.
Still, I am appalled by AuPairCare's actions.
Anonymous
05/24/2016 11:23
Subject: WaPo story about AuPairCare refusing to let au pair stay after cancer diagnosis
Do you want to have an intelligent discussion about this or are you just choosing to use this as a way to bash the AP program.
If the former, I'm game. Let me know.
If the former, I'm game. Let me know.
Anonymous
05/24/2016 11:14
Subject: WaPo story about AuPairCare refusing to let au pair stay after cancer diagnosis
Here's a WaPo story about AuPairCare refusing to let an au pair stay in the U.S. to receive treatment after she was diagnosed with cancer.
How cruel and senseless.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/im-going-to-die-an-au-pairs-fight-against-cancer-and-the-effort-to-send-her-home/2016/05/19/4f7ccf80-1b95-11e6-9c81-4be1c14fb8c8_story.html
How cruel and senseless.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/im-going-to-die-an-au-pairs-fight-against-cancer-and-the-effort-to-send-her-home/2016/05/19/4f7ccf80-1b95-11e6-9c81-4be1c14fb8c8_story.html