The spouse’s actual qualifying L status and documentation need review; a customer opportunity does not itself establish permission.
Use individual evidence
Qualifying L spouses may be employment-authorized incident to status, and an employment authorization document is not universally required. Children do not gain work permission solely from dependent status.
School enrolment, a spouse's employment, a lease and a vehicle all get arranged around a period that is shorter than it feels at the start. Federal immigration law does not, and the practical result is that a partner would have to look at a visitor route with all its limits, a status based on their own study or employment, or marriage. Unmarried children under twenty-one accompany the family and may attend school, but nothing in the derivative status permits them to be employed. For family matters, make the principal category decision independently of dependent plans, then record each person's age, status, and intended activity. Households that have seen that page stop making two characteristic errors: assuming the spouse inherits the principal's employer restriction, and assuming the spouse's position is independent of the principal's status.