Project reporting and family immigration records serve different purposes. Keep the household’s own applicable notices, civil records and status evidence organized separately. A shared login is a household convenience; derivative status is an individual entitlement, and the two should not live in the same folder. Each family member accumulates a record of their own — civil documents, the notice issued to that person, the date their residence began — and none of it is produced by a project.
Avoid losing family evidence inside a project account
A qualifying spouse and unmarried children under 21 may seek derivative status subject to their own requirements and applicable age rules. A project update does not establish a family member’s admission, adjustment approval or continuing status. Keep one file per person and one file for the investment, and resist letting the second absorb the first.
Derivative eligibility for a spouse and unmarried children under twenty-one is assessed against each person’s own relationship and age under the applicable rules, so a child approaching that threshold changes the household’s planning rather than the project’s. Note the date conditional residence began for every member, since the petition to remove conditions is built around those dates. Where a relative was admitted separately or later, record their own notices instead of assuming a shared entry.
Marriage, adoption and a change of guardianship all alter what a person is eligible for and belong on the same page as the immigration record.