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This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 10/09/2020 "The U.S. Department of State (Department) is announcing, effective immediately, a moratorium on program growth in the Au pair category of the Exchange Visitor Program...

July 18, 2019 " Beltran, et al. v. InterExchange, Inc., et al. - 14-cv-03074-CMA-KMT (D. Colo.) If you were an au pair on a J-1 visa in the United States between Jan. 1, 2009, and October 28, 2018, you could get a payment from a settlement...

ILRWG, Aug. 2018 - "Informed by au pairs’ firsthand accounts, this report explores structural deficiencies in the J-1 au pair program that contribute to labor rights abuses. Au pairs report wage theft, coercion, sexual harassment, retaliation...

Tiffany Hu, Law360, Feb. 2, 2018 - "A Colorado federal judge on Friday partially granted class certification to more than 91,000 au pairs alleging that multiple sponsor agencies colluded to set low pay rates, finding that of the proposed classes...

Beltran v. Noonan, Mar. 31, 2016 - "Plaintiffs’ circumstantial evidence presented sufficient circumstantial evidence of a viable economic theory of collusion ... the Court agrees with [Magistrate] Judge Tafoya’s conclusion that the FLSA...

"As a class action unfolds in Colorado alleging au pairs on the J-1 visa program have had their wages fixed at $4.35 per hour, Law360 takes a closer look at the exploitation of domestic workers by abusive employers who range from middle-class families...

Beltran v. Interexchange, Mar. 31, 2017 - "This matter is before the Court on Plaintiffs' Motion for Conditional Collective Action Certification (Doc. # 325) and Plaintiffs’ Second Motion for Conditional Collective Action Certification...

"The email sent ripples of fear among upscale parents: Au pair programs are in danger of ending, a possible victim of legislation now moving through Congress. The Senate immigration bill gives a hand to U.S. employers of foreign software developers...

"The Article exposes how the legal categorization of au pairs as “cultural exchange participants” is strategically used to sustain - and disguise - a government-created domestic worker program to provide flexible, in-home childcare for...