Business need does not itself establish work permission. Qualifying E spouses may be employment-authorized incident to status with appropriate documentation.
Check the individual role and status
Do not substitute family ownership for the spouse’s actual permission. Children do not gain work authorization solely through E dependent status.
Build a dated review file around each person's passport, relationship evidence, status plans, school plans, and separate employment facts. The principal should document treaty nationality, qualifying ownership, irrevocably committed capital exposed to commercial risk, substantiality, and a real non-marginal enterprise. Note each family member's nationality, current location and intended arrival date separately, because their travel may not coincide with the owner's, and the business needs cover either way. Keep the roles clear: the treaty investor must genuinely develop and direct the enterprise, and owning the company is not by itself permission to perform work. A derivative child may attend school, including post-secondary study, but may not take a job, and at twenty-one the derivative status ends regardless of what the parents' business is doing. Plan school enrolment, housing and a spouse's job search around confirmed status documents rather than around a target closing you do not yet control.