Abuse of Domestic Workers with Special Visas in the United States
The special visas granted to foreigners who work as household domestics in the U.S. leave them vulnerable to serious abuse, Human Rights Watch charged in a report released today. Thousands of these workers, typically women, enter the United States every year to work for diplomats, officials of international organizations, foreign businesspeople, and U.S. citizens temporarily back in the U.S. from their homes abroad. In the fifty-six-page report, Human Rights Watch documents the cases of dozens of workers but believes that many more are exposed to some form of abuse.
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- Abuse of Domestic Workers with Special Visas in the United States
- I. SUMMARY
- II. KEY RECOMMENDATIONS
- III. BACKGROUND
- IV. TREATMENT OF MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKERS WITH
- SPECIAL VISAS IN THE UNITED STATES
- V. U.S. GOVERNMENT PROCEDURES, GUIDELINES, LAWS, AND REGULATIONS
- GOVERNING SPECIAL DOMESTIC WORKER VISAS
- VI. U.S. LAWS AND THEIR ENFORCEMENT: DOMESTIC WORKERS FALLING OUTSIDE GOVERNMENT SCRUTINY AND PROTECTIONS IN VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
- VII. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS' INTERNAL REQUIREMENTS
- VIII. The United Kingdom: A Comparative Study
- IX. RECOMMENDATIONS
- X. Acknowledgements
- APPENDIX I: VISA ISSUANCE REQUIREMENTS
- APPENDIX II: Means of Discretionary Extension of Stay Available to the INS
- APPENDIX III: LEGAL ISSUES RELEVANT TO MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKERS








