You can move a household and a business in the same season, but keep the inventories, invoices and shipping documents apart. Furniture, personal cars and family effects are relocation costs, not invested capital. Separately, an eligible spouse and unmarried children under 21 may seek to accompany you, each through their own process.
Two inventories, two budgets
Build one list for machinery entering the company's books and another for personal effects paid from family money. Mixed shipments cause confusion later when someone asks what the enterprise actually received. On the family side, a qualifying E-2 spouse is generally employment-authorized incident to valid status, evidenced through the E-2S notation or I-94 record; dependent children get no work authorization from dependent status. Interviews and travel dates for each person can differ.
Until the family holds appropriate E status, the purchase option supplies no permission to manage staff, serve customers, sign routine contracts, or perform remote operational work from the United States. If the spouse wants a principal E-2 claim, independently test treaty nationality, ownership of 50 percent or more, or genuine operational control, and responsibility to develop and direct the enterprise.
Financing dates slip, and no shared approval date is guaranteed for a household.