Resisting repatriation, Filipino maid bolted when the car arrived at airport

Dear Worried,

If Alice knew about the Security Bond Protector, she would not have worried unnessarily. If Betta did not want to go home, she need not lose her $5,000 security bond. She could have subscribed to this Security Bond Protector plan whereby for a small premium, the insurance company would pay 95% of the security bond (or $4,750) if the maid's work permit is cancelled and she is not repatriated within one month.

But since Alice obviously did not know about this Security Bond Protector (see below) she did not insure herself against people like Betta or Mrs Candide Knott. Someone caught in the same way has only the following options:

call her maid's bluff and wait for her to emerge from hiding early enough. (If you cancelled her work permit you have to repatriate her within 30 days. At the end of 30 days, if you have not repatriated her, Immigration grabs the $5,000 you pledged when your application for a work permit was approved. If she emerges after 30 days, you have a good chance of getting your money back, if you can show that you have made the necessary effort to trace her and are instrumental in persuading her to go home.)
make it worth her while to go home - promise her you will bring her back at double the salary and you will give her the whole weekend off, and she does not even have to come home during the weekend. It probably won't work though.
plead with Ministry of Manpower to reinstate her work permit so that she can stay with you long enough to transfer to work for another employer, oops, to give hell to another employer.

It is no use to cry over spilt milk, and the following is for future reference:

An employer can subscribe to the Security Bond Protector and be protected against people like Betta and Mrs Candide Knott.

For a modest premium, the insurance compay will pay Immigration Department $4,750 and and the employer need only pick up the balance of $250.