Pending investment plans do not establish work permission. Qualifying E spouses are employment authorized incident to status with appropriate documentation.
Identify actual status at that time
Children gain no work permission solely through E dependent status. Planned family work should not be presented as authorized staffing before its legal basis exists.
If the existing business continues, someone has to manage it while the investor develops and directs the U.S. enterprise, and that person may be a family member whose own plans then change. A relative's existing ownership stake in the U.S. business does not itself grant the investor's own spouse or children any status; each household member's own citizenship, relationship and intended activity still needs individual review, separate from the relative's ownership interest. Nothing about the process guarantees a decision by a given date, and the spouse's ability to work in the United States depends on the principal being approved, admitted and in valid status first. If the investor plans U.S. development work, assess the necessary work authorization separately; owning or transferring intellectual property does not grant permission to perform that work in the United States.