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BOIS-DES-FILION · L-1B FIELD GUIDE

Does a retention package include family immigration permissions?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

No company payment creates those permissions. Review each person’s relevant status, documentation and intended activities.

Check the individual work rule

Qualifying L spouses are employment authorized incident to status with appropriate documentation. Children do not receive work permission solely through L dependent status. Separate company benefits from the family’s actual immigration steps.

Build a dated review file around the spouse's status evidence, each child’s age and school plan, and any proposed activity in the related business. The usual alternative for a student is a course of study with a school authorized to enrol foreign students, and that route has its own admission timetable, financial documentation and issuance steps. The principal needs a valid L-1B petition based on one continuous qualifying foreign year, related active entities and special or advanced company knowledge connected to the US assignment. Confirm the spouse's current documentation and any independent employment route rather than assuming one type of card is always required. Unmarried children under twenty-one may live in the United States and attend school or college, but they have no work authorization and lose dependant status at twenty-one.