Family permissions follow the relevant individual status, not the applicant’s management label. Review the spouse’s and children’s intended activities separately.
Check status evidence and activities
Qualifying L spouses are employment authorized incident to status; check appropriate documentation. L dependent children do not obtain work authorization on that basis. Study may be permitted while status is maintained, without extending the authorized stay.
The spouse should still confirm which document a U.S. employer will accept as proof, since employers verify work eligibility from specific records and an admission stamp annotated for a spouse is what USCIS currently treats as evidence. The spouse should keep their own admission record, passport and marriage certificate available for employer verification, since the principal’s approval notice is not the spouse’s work evidence. Review any new-office one-year milestone and the principal’s seven-year maximum without assuming the spouse’s position changes either. The common error is treating a pending principal filing or approved corporate assignment as if it already created status for every family member. Marriage must be legally recognized for the spouse to hold derivative status at all, which is worth confirming for couples who have lived together for years without marrying. Each dependant's admission period should be checked against the principal's after every entry, since a mismatch can end a spouse's authorization unexpectedly.