My helper has been with us for a little over 2 yrs now. Had her contract renewed with a lot of difficulty as she had tried getting married to a someone here.
We are planning to move out of Singapore , in a few months time and I had told my helper that I would give her a good reference and help her find a good employer.
But couple weeks back she told me that she wants to immigrate to the US. She has talked to a friend of her previous employer who resides there and has even managed to get a sponsor for a visitor visa (based on a fraudulent claim that she is the sponsor's cousin, and this sponsor is a physician family who wants to employ a maid!).
Now she wants me to fill her visitor visa application and give her 10 days off to visit there.
She tells me that after she comes back she will finish her 2 year contract here (getting a transfer after we leave) and only then take up a job in the US.
I have tried telling her that it is not easy to get a visa to work as a maid in the USA, but she told me that I should not worry about that and once she visits the US and comes back it will be fairly easy for her to get employment as a maid there and her visa for the same will also be approved.
I have a feeling that she is planning to leave from here and stay on as an illegal immigrant once she gets there and she just wants us to keep her work permit for some time and hence is telling me that she will be gone only for 10 days.
I do not like getting involved in these activities, as I don't think it is right. I have tried telling her that she does not even know the sponsor family and it may not even be a safe thing to do.
If I refuse to fill her visitor visa application or give her time off, she is going to be very upset and obviously show it in her work and actions as she has set her heart and mind on this scheme.
As her employer what are my liabilities if she goes on this trip and does not return? Any thoughts or ideas on how to handle this situation.
