Use it as a planning reference while checking each person’s status and intended activity. A corporate transition is not family immigration authorization.
Separate work and study permissions
Qualifying L spouses are employment authorized incident to status, with the appropriate documentation. Children do not obtain work permission solely through L dependent status. Dependents may study while maintaining status; school attendance does not extend their authorized stay.
Deal with the household on its own timetable rather than the company’s. The transition date the business cares about is when authority moves; the date the family cares about is when each person may enter, work or enrol, and those rarely coincide. Confirm each dependant’s own status and intended activity separately, including anyone who plans to keep working for a Canadian employer remotely, since that arrangement raises questions worth resolving before departure rather than after.
Hypothetical example: the spouse of a transferring optical-laboratory manager intends to continue contract bookkeeping for a Canadian client; the couple should establish what the spouse’s own status permits before assuming the arrangement can simply continue. Note that a child’s eligibility as a dependant ends at 21, so where a handover is expected to stretch across a year or more, check the child’s age against the realistic filing date and not against the announcement.