TD does not authorize employment, including remote work performed while physically in the United States.
Keep the household outside the assignment assumption
The principal’s service agreement does not extend permission to a spouse. Review each person’s actual eligibility and intended activity independently.
The rule is category-specific rather than general: TD carries no employment authorization, while a qualifying L-2 or E-2 spouse is employment-authorized incident to status under current policy. The family should document the marriage or parent-child relationship, passports, and the principal’s status, then identify where each spouse’s customers, duties, and business operations will be located. TD status does allow an accompanying spouse or an unmarried child under twenty-one to study, so education plans are workable, but any employment for the spouse would need separate authorization explored with counsel in advance. A child ceases to qualify at twenty-one, which matters to any household with a nineteen or twenty-year-old, because the alternative route for that person takes months to arrange. Where the second income is essential rather than useful, it is worth comparing the L and E categories, in which a spouse is employment-authorised incident to status.