The return date does not establish immigration permission for any family member. Coordinate plans with the reviewed transfer and actual individual status documents. A relocation package is a contractual benefit; status is not among the things an employer can grant. Moving allowances, school assistance and a spousal job-search service are promises between employer and employee, and they change nothing about who may enter, stay or work. Each relative holds a status of their own, with its own conditions.
Review work and stay on their own basis
Qualifying L spouses are employment authorized incident to status with appropriate documentation. Children gain no work permission solely through L dependent status. Employer leave or relocation arrangements do not themselves create these rights.
Work permission and study permission separate here, and so do the family members. A qualifying L-2 spouse is employment authorized incident to status, with documentation confirming it; children in dependent status may attend school but gain no work permission from that status, and reaching an age threshold or marrying changes what a child is eligible for. Plan around the principal’s reviewed transfer rather than the return-to-work date, because the family’s applications depend on the principal actually holding the status, not on the employer having approved the move.
Where relatives will travel at different times, keep each person’s documents in a separate set so one file’s gap does not stall the rest.