Global soccer boss Gianni Infantino and his inside circle tapped the Trump administration to secure a work allow for his Nicaraguan housekeeper after the White House scrapped her legal standing, sources have advised The Post.
The embattled FIFA president enlisted a politically related adviser to intervene with federal immigration officers on behalf of 33-year-old Yajarlin del Socorro Fernandez, whom the soccer physique had continued using for months after her work authorization was revoked, according to leaked paperwork, audio recordings, and three sources with direct information of the matter.
An inner FIFA letter obtained by The Post confirms Fernandez remained employed by the soccer group through October 2025 — more than 4 months after the Trump administration revoked her permission to work in the US, according to two authorities sources acquainted with her immigration file.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino and his spouse, Leena, allegedly employed a Nicaraguan housekeeper before searching for help from immigration officers after her work authorization was revoked by the Trump administration, sources said. Getty Images
“This is to confirm that Yajarlin del Socorro Fernandez was employed by FIFA (Americas), Inc. from 1 August 2024 to 31 October 2025. Ms. Fernandez worked on a full-time basis,” reads the letter signed by Faviana Urdaneta, FIFA’s People & Culture business associate in Miami.
FIFA and Infantino did not reply to The Post’s detailed questions about the association.
Fernandez landed a coveted C11 parole work authorization under Kristi Noem’s Department of Homeland Security in January 2026, despite Trump shifting to ax the humanitarian scheme for her nation a 12 months earlier.
The backdoor maneuver adopted a transfer by the Swiss-Italian sports activities go well with’s inside circle to use an allegedly false tackle, rather than checklist the residence where she was really dwelling and working for Infantino and his household.
Infantino’s spouse, Leena, initially tapped Fernandez for that job before she had even obtained an initial work allow, two sources said. The household later moved into One Thousand Museum, where English soccer legend David Beckham just lately bought a penthouse for just under $25 million.
Yajarlin del Socorro Fernandez, the Nicaraguan housekeeper at the heart of an alleged VIP immigration repair orchestrated by FIFA’s prime brass. Obtained by NY Post
Carlos Cordeiro, the former Goldman Sachs banker who just lately stop FIFA over Infantino’s industrial offers with Josh Kushner’s Thrive Capital, orchestrated the association at his boss’s behest, three sources said.
Trump had appointed Cordeiro a senior adviser to the White House’s World Cup process pressure in May 2025. Crucially, that group—which included Noem—operated immediately out of Homeland Security, the same company that rubber-stamped Fernandez’s new work allow.
Acting on orders from the FIFA head honcho, Cordeiro instructed a subordinate during a May 2024 assembly to submit their own Miami rental on Fernandez’s immigration filings, insiders said, concealing where she was really dwelling and working for the FIFA boss’s household.
Fernandez subsequently acquired non permanent permission to work, but that authorization was revoked the following 12 months.
A leaked employment letter from FIFA (Americas), Inc. confirms Yajarlin del Socorro Fernandez labored full-time for the soccer governing physique’s US division from August 2024 to October 2025. Obtained by NY Post
On May 30, 2025, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to terminate the four-country humanitarian parole scheme.
On June 12 of that 12 months, the Department of Homeland Security formally notified members that their permission to reside and work in the US was revoked.
After shedding her work authorization, Fernandez confronted an interview with federal immigration officers in fall 2025. The allegedly false tackle triggered panic when brokers started scrutinizing her residential data, sources said.
Around that time, Infantino requested Cordeiro to leverage his authorities contacts to help Fernandez acquire new immigration authorization, according to sources acquainted with the discussions.
Infantino now stays at this luxurious Miami residence at the One Thousand Museum building on Biscayne Boulevard, where English soccer legend David Beckham beforehand had a penthouse. Blazenka – stock.adobe.com
Infantino had already rebuffed inner workers warnings to sever ties with Fernandez, preserving her on the company payroll, according to sources acquainted with the matter.
“You cannot keep paying her through us, because she’s going to get deported,” one FIFA insider warned. “If she gets caught by ICE, we would have a problem.”
When contacted by The Post, Cordeiro declined to tackle his alleged position in Fernandez’s immigration filings, claiming he was “not aware of the story.”
The paper path leads immediately back to Zurich. Florida state data checklist FIFA’s prime international brass —including Secretary General Mattias Grafström and Chief Legal Officer Emilio Garcia Silvero — as registered administrators of the Delaware-registered FIFA (Americas) Inc.
Prominent immigration attorney Michael Wildes, who beforehand represented First Lady Melania Trump, says the VIP work allow granted to Infantino’s housekeeper is extremely uncommon for on a regular basis noncitizens. Courtesy of Michael Wildes
Michael Wildes, the distinguished immigration attorney who famously represented First Lady Melania Trump, advised The Post that Fernandez’s continued employment turned strictly unauthorized once that program was scrapped.
“Generally speaking, C11 work authorization is tied to the validity of the individual’s underlying parole,” the prime legal eagle said. “If the individual’s parole was terminated because the overarching program through which they obtained it was terminated, then the individual loses the ability to renew their C11.”
Wildes advised The Post the sudden issuance of a new C11 allow in early 2026 suggests Fernandez may have acquired preferential therapy.
“The everyday noncitizen has virtually no chance of getting the kind of re-parole and new [work permit] issuance that this individual received,” he said, including that the present administration is routinely denying comparable requests from people with genuinely urgent humanitarian wants.
Ties between FIFA boss Gianni Infantino and President Trump were called into query during the World Cup after the sports activities technocrat intervened to overturn a pink card for USMNT ahead Folarin Balogun. Getty Images
“It’s not unreasonable to say that, based on your explanation of these events, this individual received a level of favorable treatment that is entirely out of reach for the vast majority of noncitizens who cannot fall back on their preferential connections,” the senior immigration attorney added.
Such work permits are issued by US Citizenship and Immigration Services, an company within DHS, rather than the State Department.
Today, federal officers largely hand these emergency passes to people escaping struggle zones, like Ukrainians, or to the rapid households of army troops, according to the USCIS web site.
“If Infantino and his wife hired a maid without legal status, they have spat in Trump’s face and his policy agenda,” said one source with direct information of the matter. “What the president will make of this is anyone’s guess.”
“They behave like kings and queens and think they are entitled to have servants,” the source added.
Fernandez’s redacted C11 work allow. Such permits have also been issued to Ukrainians fleeing struggle or the rapid households of US army troops. Obtained by NY Post
The DHS and USCIS did not reply to questions about Cordeiro’s alleged intervention or why Fernandez was granted new work authorization after her earlier immigration standing was revoked.
The association marks a evident irony for Infantino, who ascended to international soccer’s throne in 2016 on a crusading vow to clean up the governing physique.
His reign came following the sweeping 2015 US Department of Justice corruption indictments that toppled the scandal-plagued regime of Sepp Blatter.
Fernandez was registered to an tackle in a blue-collar neighborhood close to downtown Miami, according to sources and inner paperwork obtained by The Post. Google Maps
Infantino, who faces a presidential election in March 2027, has spent latest months navigating intense fallout over a collapsed plan to privatize FIFA’s industrial operations.
Under the contested proposal, a newly created subsidiary valued at $20 billion would have bought a minority stake to personal buyers, led by Thrive Capital. The Post broke the information in July that the deal had collapsed amid international uproar.
The initiative triggered fierce inner revolt and open warfare with European governing physique UEFA, which threatened a complete boycott of FIFA competitions and later filed discovery actions in US federal courts to acquire inner pitch decks.
Reuters reported on Monday that FIFA would release some key paperwork linked to the furore, but sources said the outfit would pressure its own soccer bigwigs to signal an NDA to forestall their contents from leaking to the media.
