Anonymous
Post 05/19/2021 13:45     Subject: Re:Brazil Au Pair Visa
Our Brazilian Au Pair finally got a visa appointment. And we are an NIE family!!! The process is so slow. But we got the Au Pair we wanted ... so it all will work out in the end.

We only have 2 kids and we have an easy gig, car, phone, travel, etc. so I am hoping she will stick around .... I heard the horror stories of NIE rematch.
Anonymous
Post 04/20/2021 16:51     Subject: Re:Brazil Au Pair Visa
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:An entire group of Brazilian au pair candidates are so anxious to come here on au pair visas that they are willing to travel to different countries for visas as to get around travel bans. since other countries are open, I would think a host family could find a match there and not deal with the ways to get around bans and covid quarantine, etc. Once here, there is zero guarantee an au pair isn't going to immediately rematch or have unrealistic expectations of what being an aupair is like. I wouldn't risk the delays and plans to go Chile for a visa when at the end of these antics, you need childcare. That's why you host an aupair.

Mexico, Colombia, Canada, Argentina - these countries are easier with NIE and don't have surging covid variants and travel bans. There will be a chance for the majority of applicants in Brazil to be aupairs once the pandemic quiets down. In the meantime, if you need childcare and host an aupair, Brazil may not be the best decision.


+1 And agencies loooove NIE families. B/c when these aps go into rematch, other non-NIE families can go into a bidding war. Rematch NIE au pairs should only be allowed to rematch with other NIE families.


Our aupair came over in December on a regular visa. Not a NIE. Most of the aupair companies are a part of the Chamber of Commerce which won the lawsuit allowing J1 visas to be issued. Unless the applicant is in a country with a travel ban or closed embassies, there shouldn't be an issue with bringing an aupair over on a regular visa. If you host through Cultural Care, then it is NIE only, but there are other companies out there.

I haven't heard of anyone having a bidding war over an NIE rematch aupair. Is this even a thing? If that happened to us, I guess I would have matched with another one from out of the country and tried again. Rematch is a pain when it happens regardless of the reason why.
Anonymous
Post 04/20/2021 15:07     Subject: Re:Brazil Au Pair Visa
Anonymous wrote:An entire group of Brazilian au pair candidates are so anxious to come here on au pair visas that they are willing to travel to different countries for visas as to get around travel bans. since other countries are open, I would think a host family could find a match there and not deal with the ways to get around bans and covid quarantine, etc. Once here, there is zero guarantee an au pair isn't going to immediately rematch or have unrealistic expectations of what being an aupair is like. I wouldn't risk the delays and plans to go Chile for a visa when at the end of these antics, you need childcare. That's why you host an aupair.

Mexico, Colombia, Canada, Argentina - these countries are easier with NIE and don't have surging covid variants and travel bans. There will be a chance for the majority of applicants in Brazil to be aupairs once the pandemic quiets down. In the meantime, if you need childcare and host an aupair, Brazil may not be the best decision.


+1 And agencies loooove NIE families. B/c when these aps go into rematch, other non-NIE families can go into a bidding war. Rematch NIE au pairs should only be allowed to rematch with other NIE families.
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2021 20:29     Subject: Re:Brazil Au Pair Visa
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Chile has closed its borders until June.

We matched with a Brazilian Au Pair, we are an NIE family, but she was denied a visa appointment. We believe they did not even open her application.

We are about to send an email to all Brazilian consulates, our Senators, and Congressman.



Maybe you should just follow the rules instead of trying to lobby your Congressman so your au pair can spread new variants of COVID to the rest of us. The entitlement is off the charts.


+1. PP should just give up or look somewhere else.
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2021 11:10     Subject: Re:Brazil Au Pair Visa
An entire group of Brazilian au pair candidates are so anxious to come here on au pair visas that they are willing to travel to different countries for visas as to get around travel bans. since other countries are open, I would think a host family could find a match there and not deal with the ways to get around bans and covid quarantine, etc. Once here, there is zero guarantee an au pair isn't going to immediately rematch or have unrealistic expectations of what being an aupair is like. I wouldn't risk the delays and plans to go Chile for a visa when at the end of these antics, you need childcare. That's why you host an aupair.

Mexico, Colombia, Canada, Argentina - these countries are easier with NIE and don't have surging covid variants and travel bans. There will be a chance for the majority of applicants in Brazil to be aupairs once the pandemic quiets down. In the meantime, if you need childcare and host an aupair, Brazil may not be the best decision.
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2021 09:53     Subject: Brazil Au Pair Visa
Google it
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2021 09:03     Subject: Brazil Au Pair Visa
What is NIE
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2021 22:39     Subject: Brazil Au Pair Visa
We were NIE family and had a Thai au pair who got denied a visa ( at least she got an appointment though). NIE is not a guarantee!!!
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2021 19:25     Subject: Re:Brazil Au Pair Visa
fake comment. Any family that qualifies under NIE experiences hardships. If you really were an NIE family, you would not be criticizing another NIE family.

Geez
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2021 13:44     Subject: Re:Brazil Au Pair Visa
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Chile has closed its borders until June.

We matched with a Brazilian Au Pair, we are an NIE family, but she was denied a visa appointment. We believe they did not even open her application.

We are about to send an email to all Brazilian consulates, our Senators, and Congressman.



Maybe you should just follow the rules instead of trying to lobby your Congressman so your au pair can spread new variants of COVID to the rest of us. The entitlement is off the charts.


+1. We are an NIE family and cancelled our match. We did not feel it was responsible right now to bring in an au pair from a global hotspot.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2021 23:43     Subject: Re:Brazil Au Pair Visa




Maybe you should just follow the rules instead of trying to lobby your Congressman so your au pair can spread new variants of COVID to the rest of us. The entitlement is off the charts.


I thought NIE families were given an exception. Maybe those consulates aré backlogged
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2021 18:42     Subject: Re:Brazil Au Pair Visa
Anonymous wrote:Chile has closed its borders until June.

We matched with a Brazilian Au Pair, we are an NIE family, but she was denied a visa appointment. We believe they did not even open her application.

We are about to send an email to all Brazilian consulates, our Senators, and Congressman.



Maybe you should just follow the rules instead of trying to lobby your Congressman so your au pair can spread new variants of COVID to the rest of us. The entitlement is off the charts.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2021 13:29     Subject: Re:Brazil Au Pair Visa
Chile has closed its borders until June.

We matched with a Brazilian Au Pair, we are an NIE family, but she was denied a visa appointment. We believe they did not even open her application.

We are about to send an email to all Brazilian consulates, our Senators, and Congressman.

Anonymous
Post 04/15/2021 18:15     Subject: Re:Brazil Au Pair Visa
An your AP travel to another country that is issuing visas and come that way? Ours was able to go through Chile, get the visa and then fly to the US.
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2021 17:23     Subject: Brazil Au Pair Visa
We matched with an au pair from Brazil for September. Given the news we're doubtful this will even happen, though still months offl. For anyone who has match with a Brazilian or heard news from their agency on Brazil, could you share?