Education Options
Online courses are approved if a class is registered by March 31. All classes must be from an accredited USA college or university. Ask your CC to approve any online course before you start to make sure it will meet the requirements.
For a list of great online options click here:
- Chattahoochee Technical College Free ESL and GED classes offered in Canton and Acworth]
- English For Internationals
- ESL Courses at Chattahoochee Technical College
- Lanier Technical College Free English as a second language and GRE Prep course
- Gwinnett Technical School ESL Program- Free ESL
- Gwinnett Technical College ESL Continuing Education Fulton County and Gwinnett County Campus
- Gwinnett Technical College Continuing Education All classes.
- Important Education Information
- Kennesaw State Univ and College Cont Ed
- North Georgia University and State College Cumming Campus
- UCLA Extension Program APIA Advantage
- How to Register for the UCLA online course
- University of Georgia at Gwinnett Continuing Edu
- Weekend Travel Courses Approved by APIA
- Weekend Course in Atlanta with the University of Virgin Islands.
- Cultural Hi-ways Weekend Courses 36 Hours Per Weekend
Information
- How to print our your I-94 card.
- Important Education Information
- What you need to consider before extending your au pair term!
- What you need to know about a tornado. Keeping yourself and your host children safe during a tornado watch or warning
Medical Care in the USA
- Au Pair medical insurance
- Year 2018 Options for Medical Care for Au pair. What you need to know!
- Search for a Doctor or Urgent Care Center for Au pairs arriving or extending in 2019 Choose ” primary PPO”
- Year 2019 arriving or extending in 2019 Options for Medical Care.
- Search for a Doctor or Urgent Care For Au Pairs who arrived in 2018
- CVS Minute Clinics are an easy option for quick care for non-emergency related illness.
- Lost insurance card
- Need to be reimbursed for cost of medical services
- Contact for Au pair Insurance questions:For claim submission questions, call (800) 303-8120, prompt 5 or 203-399-5130 or email claimhelp@culturalinsurance.com
- List of Preferred Physicians, Hospitals and Medical Centers
Look for primary PP0 and if nothing comes up, search secondary. - Female health and birth control options: consider Planned Parenthood.
Life in the USA
- Georgia Driver Services
- Georgia Driver’s Manual.
- Georgia Driver’s Test and Exam Information. What to expect!
- Locations for Driver’s Written and Road’s Test. NOT all centers will provide both written and roads test. READ before you go.
- How To Get A Social Security Card
- Print and fill out the Social Security Application. Check legal alien allowed to work.
- Social Security Office locations
- How to get a Georgia Driver License. CLICK and SCROLL TO BOTTOM to find where to go and what to bring.
- Practice Test for Driver’s Exam
- Schedule a Roads Test. Can make appointment 60 days ahead. A licensed driver will need to go with you and stay in the car. READ to know what is needed for the car you will be testing in Here
- Third Party Road Test May Be sooner Than GA Road’s Test
- Filing your USA taxes
Travel Links for Au Pairs
- Hostelling info
- Rapid Transit in Atlanta ( Marta Train)
- Suntrek
- Traveling outside the US
- Contact for Questions regarding travel outside of the USA:
Fiorella CiralliCompliance & Program Services Manager1.800.9AU.PAIR, ext. 5027fax: 203.399.5227fciralli@aifs.com