AU PAIRS WORLDWIDE is an professional organisation committed to finding you and your family the most suitable au pair! We are an agency uniquely specialized in matching au pairs with host families all over Europe, especially Great Britain, The Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland et cetera. Our agency is able to provide au pairs from The Netherlands, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy,South Africa, Philippines, Canada, US, Brazilia and Northern or Eastern European countries. Our staff has many years of experience in arranging suitable au pair/nanny placements. Our staff members worked as au pairs themselves. They had that job abroad and nowadays they employ their own au pairs. That is why we think that we can meet the needs of both host family and au pair perfectly. Moreover, we have local contacts with every host country we deal with and potential au pairs/host families will thoroughly be screened before being accepted by Au Pairs Worldwide. Our head office is based in Groningen which is a large University town in the North of the Netherlands. We mainly place au pairs in Dutch families. Au Pairs Worldwide has been selected as a partner of the "Proeftuin Au Pair IND". This is a programme instigated by the Dutch Immigration service (IND) to improve the law regarding visas for Au Pairs coming into the Netherlands. Through our head office one can take advantage of the fast track visa application and obtain a MVV ( visa for a limited stay). Thanks to the partnership with the IND a visa application will be processed within two weeks. We are a Covenant holder with the IND with regards to the fast track MVV visa application procedure. Via our Partner au pair agencies abroad we send potential au pairs where ever they would like to go Worldwide. As the only Au Pair agency in the Netherlands we have a large data base with many EU au pairs who do not need to apply for a visa to enter the Netherlands. These Au Pairs come from the new EU countries like Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia, Estonia, Slovak and Czech Republics,Lithuania etc. Some of these EU candidates are available for the United Kingdom. As members of the International Au Pair Association we work according to their code of conduct, see the IAPA website. AU PAIRS WORLDWIDE was founded in 1997.