Thread: Taking a Nanny home? I feel like an idiot for asking...

Hello,
I know this is a weird question but I honestly don’t know the technicalities of what I am going to ask and feel a bit foolish for it at that. A friend of my mother in-law took a nanny back to the United States with her probably a decade ago from the Philippines. I have an Indonesian nanny who helps me while I work. She looks after my 11 month old daughter and my 8 year old son.
I am considering going back to the States sometime this year. My daughter loves her and she loves my kids. Her English is not very good, she can understand when people talk to her but as far as US standards she would be anything but fluent. She is also unqualified for any aupair contracts because she is older… 46 to be exact and an aupair must be 18-26 years of age…
My only option from what I can see is the lottery but just curious if there is some kind of loop hole I am missing. It will be a heartbreaker to separate but obviously it will have to do. Her contract with us is up in April and she will have to go back to Jakarta otherwise and we will probably go back to the States at some point this year. Has anyone been in a similar situation? Is the lottery the only option? Obviously the paperwork is more complex and she would have to be paid quite a bit more than she is now and I understand that there are tons of more documentation that she would need to ensure she isn’t being abused and all that but the biggest concern is I am not finding any loop holes due to her age and the fact she isn’t a student.
Any Americans who sponsored foreigners for unskilled work over the age of 26?
Thank you

I've already checked... actually my father did six months or so ago. She wants to go. She's a widow and has a grown son and that's about it. Her best friends live at my Indonesian father's home and that is really all the socializing aside from my immediate family that she has. Her other option is possibly to go work for my dad but he doesn't have any other positions for her right now. She has been with me for a year and from what I can tell she seems to be content. I am not saying she would be devastated if we left but I know that she is very deeply bonded with the kids and at the very least she appears to be open to the suggestion.

Originally Posted by soontobeexpat

Before you spend time researching all of this information I would triple check that she is eager to go with you. I have heard alot of friends/my partners friends be so excited and happy they have a western gf/bf so they can leave Indonesia for 3 months and have completely a. freaked out and not gone or b. Felt home sick and had to leave. I guess its that unconditional loyalty to your family which seems to be so prevelant in Indonesia that makes it hard to leave. Im not sure. How would she adjust in the western world?

hi..
there's something called the 'warga tenaga kerja luar negeri' in short for women TKW,
I have no experience in this field, but what I know is that the majority/most if not all, go through an agent to obtain papers like the greencard with the right to work ecetc...How the whole process works I have no idea precisely, I just know that wages are paid to the agent in question, and he/she takes his commision.
So maybe that is not the way to go, but like everything in Indonesia terms are probably negotiable.
Maybe worth checking out, what an agent's cost are just for helping obtaining the right papers..
goodluck, fr.gr. gilbert.

ps: does your nannny have family/children of her own?