Describe the genuine arrangement and review each person’s relevant status and work permission. Do not assume family participation is authorized or already available. Where relatives genuinely do work, the arrangement should appear in ordinary business records: an employment agreement or engagement letter, payroll entries, and evidence of the authorization each person relies on. Help that appears in none of those records is not established support.
Check the individual basis for work
Qualifying L spouses are employment authorized incident to status with appropriate documentation. Dependent children do not receive work permission solely through L status. Unresolved family staffing should not be presented as established business support.
Two failures recur. The first presents an intention as an arrangement, so a relative who might assist is written into a staffing plan with no agreement, no rate and no start date. The second assumes that status held by a family member permits the work described; a qualifying L spouse is employment authorized incident to status with appropriate documentation, dependent children are not, and a relative living in Canada would need their own basis to work in the United States.
Set out what each person will do, under what document, from what date. If any line cannot be completed, remove that person from the operational plan rather than leaving the gap for a reviewer to find.