Coordinate plans with the reviewed eligibility and actual immigration process. A recruitment commitment does not establish the principal’s or dependents’ permission to work or stay. Dependants' status follows the principal's, so it inherits the principal's dates: the period actually granted, any shortfall against what was requested, and the end date. Build the household timetable from the document eventually issued rather than from the offer letter, since nothing in a recruitment schedule changes what is permitted before then.
Use actual status rather than expected eligibility
Qualifying L spouses are employment authorized incident to status with appropriate documentation. Children gain no work permission solely through L dependent status. Future qualifying employment expectations do not create those rights today.
Schooling and employment run on calendars that will not wait for a petition, which is why the fallback matters more than the plan. Two failure modes deserve an answer before departure: a period granted for less than the employer requested, and a transfer that slips past a school registration deadline. Spousal employment authorization is documented, and that documentation has its own issuance timeline; a spouse counting on income from a fixed date should know when the underlying evidence can realistically exist.
Children sit differently again, and a child approaching the upper age limit for dependent status deserves that checked against the calendar early rather than discovered late.