Au Pair Organizations In The United States
An au pair organization is an agency which complies with 22 C.F.R. 62.31 (which deals with foreign relations—specifically, au pairs.) This program allows foreign nationals between the ages of 18 and 26 to live with a host American family for one year, with a one-year extension permitted. To comply with the regulations, most au pair organizations hire a local coordinator. Au pair organizations must follow guidelines set forth by the United States Department of State, which include:
- Limiting the participation of foreign nationals in the program to one year (unless legally extended)
- Requiring that all officers, employees, agents, and volunteers be adequately trained and supervised
- Requiring that the au pair is placed with a host family within a one-hour drive of the local organizational representative authorized to act on the sponsor's behalf
- Requiring that each local organizational representative maintain a monthly record of all personal contacts with each au pair and host family for which he or she is responsible
- Requiring that all local representatives contact au pair participants and host families twice monthly for the first two months after placement
- Requiring that local representatives not be responsible for more than 15 families if not employed full-time
- Requiring that each local representative provide adequate support services
- Provide the au pair with child-development and child-safety instruction
Read more about Au Pair Organizations In The United States: Host Family Requirements, Au Pair Agencies, See Also
Famous quotes containing the words united states, pair, united and/or states:
“I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s side was not an Indian chief.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“You are always looking for already-felt emotions, just as you like to get an old pair of trousers back from the cleaners, which seem new when you don’t look too closely. Artists are cleaners, don’t let yourself be taken in by them. True modern works of art are made not by artists but quite simply by men.”
—Francis Picabia (1878–1953)
“United Fruit... United Thieves Company... it’s a monopoly ... if you won’t take their prices they let your limes rot on the wharf; it’s a monopoly. You boys are working for a bunch of thieves, but I know it ain’t your fault.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)