February 25th. Meet at AMC Theaters at Westminster Promenade at 645pm
Our January AP meeting will be on the 21st from 1:30-3:30. It will be at Zultimate Self Defense Studio at 136th and Zuni in Broomfield. We will be having a self defense workshop! Please feel free to bring your friends. The cost will be $10-$15 dependent on how many au pairs come.
Please let me know if you will not be able to attend!!!
Our next au pair meeting will be on JULY 16th. We will be attending to the Rockies game. The game starts at 6:10pm. Please be at the stadium no later than 5:45 so that I can give you your tickets. I will send out an email closer to the date with detail about where to meet. Also please consider carpooling downtown for parking reasons.
Here are the dates for the second half of the year for our au pair meetings.
Saturday March 12th St Patricks Day Parade in Downtown Denver Meet at 9am
Saturday April 16th HF Event (time and location to be confirmed)
Saturday May 7th Tour of Invesco Field
Sunday June 12th Water Safety
July 16th Rockies game
August 14th Safety CEP meeting
September 17th TBA
October 22nd Au pair scavenger hunt in Boulder
October 23rd (Host Families only)
November 13th Fire Safety CEP
December 18th Holiday Party
Our March au pair meeting will be in downtown Denver. We will be attending the St Patricks day Parade on March 12th. We will meet in front of the EF building on Blake Street in Denver. The address of the EF building is 1755 Blake Street in Denver.
You can call me if you have any questions 303 396 7328. Also if you think you might need a ride please let me know.
Here are the dates for the au pair meetings for the first half of 2011.
The meetings in January and February will be with Katrin’s group as she will be covering while I am on maternity leave (she will send out more information about the locations and times).
Saturday January 22 1-3pm Ice Skating at Flatirons Mall (will cost about $10)
Saturday February 12th CPR training (time to be confirmed)
Saturday March 12th St Patricks Day Parade in Downtown Denver Meet at 9am
Saturday April 16th HF Event (time and location to be confirmed)
Saturday May 7th Water Safety (time and location to be confirmed)
Sunday June 12th
Our December au pair meeting will be holiday party at my house on December 12th from 5-8pm. We will be making pizzas (I will be sending out an email with a list of ingredients for each au pair to bring to the meeting). We will also be doing a gift exchange, please bring a gift around $10.
Also please remember that I will be going on maternity leave from December 15th until February 15th. I will be sending out an email around the 10th of December with the covering LCC’s information.
Happy Holidays
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
FOR AU PAIRS TRAVELING IN THEIR SECOND YEAR
Travel to Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean in the second year
If you do not renew your J-1 visa in your home country during your second year, your options for international travel are limited. With an expired J-1 visa, you are only allowed to travel to Canada, Mexico or the adjacent Caribbean islands (except Cuba) for a period of thirty days or less. This is known as “visa revalidation.” The following conditions must apply in order for you to travel to these countries:
· You must have an unexpired I-94 card indicating your J-1 status in your passport when you enter the U.S. Do not surrender the I-94 card when you leave the U.S. If you do, you will not be eligible for visa revalidation.
· You must have your second year DS-2019 form that has been signed for travel by Cultural Care.
· You must have a passport valid at least six months into the future on the day you return to the U.S.
· You can travel only to one of the destinations named above and for fewer than thirty days. For example, you cannot use automatic revalidation to enter Canada, depart to another country, return to Canada, and then return to the U.S. within 30 days. The acceptable Caribbean islands include: Anguilla, Antigua, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Barbuda, Bermuda, Bonaire, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Curacao, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Marie-Galante, Martinique, Miquelon, Montserrat, Saba, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Christopher, Saint Eustatius, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Maarten, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, and other British, French and Netherlands territory or possessions bordering on the Caribbean Sea.
· You cannot apply to renew your J-1 visa while in Canada, Mexico, or the Caribbean. If you apply for the J-1 visa during your visit to one of these destinations, you must wait for it to be issued before you return. If your visa application is denied by the American consulate, you are not allowed to use automatic revalidation to return to the U.S. You will be required to travel to your country of citizenship to apply for a new visa.
· You must have your expired J-1 visa in your passport. If you lost your passport during your first year and had it replaced, you will not have the J-1 visa in that new passport and therefore cannot take advantage of travel to Canada, Mexico or the Caribbean.
· If you are a citizen of Syria, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, North Korea, Cuba, or Libya you are not eligible for visa revalidation. If you are a national of one of the above countries, you must always have a valid visa in your passport to enter the United States.
· You may be required to have a tourist visa to enter a foreign country. The visa you have for the United States does not automatically grant entry into these countries. We recommend that you check with the consulate of the country you are visiting before you travel. Below are the commonly requested Canadian and Mexican consulate websites: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/visit/index.html or http://www.consulmexny.org/
· The decision to allow an au pair back into the U.S. is at the discretion of the immigration officer at the port of entry. Cultural Care cannot guarantee reentry into the United States and will not be responsible for any costs incurred due to reentry problems.
Travel in your grace period
Please remember that the visa revalidation rules no longer apply in the 30 day grace period following completion of your program year. As this grace period is not covered by the dates on the 2nd year DS 2019 form, you will not be eligible for visa revalidation during this period. If you do vacation outside of the U.S. in your grace period, you will not be allowed to re-enter the U.S. and will be responsible for booking your own flight back to your home country.
If you have any questions concerning this information,
please call Cultural Care Au Pair Operations at 1-800-448-5753
or email us at aupair.operations@culturalcare.com