Family status and permissions require individual review and appropriate evidence. An employer’s statement does not itself grant work authorization.
Use actual status documentation
Qualifying L spouses are employment authorized incident to status with appropriate documentation. Children do not gain work permission solely through L dependent status. Keep family activity questions separate from the company’s description of the principal’s role.
Hypothetical example: a laboratory quality manager is transferring, and the household assumes the spouse can begin work in the first week because the employer’s letter mentions the family. The letter mentions them; it authorizes nothing. Ask instead which document each adult would hold on arrival, what dates it carries, and what a payroll department would accept as proof.
Sequence the questions per person rather than per household: intended activity, then the status that permits it, then the evidence of that status, then who holds the paper. Children in dependent status may generally attend school, and that permission is separate from any employment question; do not read a spouse rule across to a child or the reverse. Where a family member’s own case is still pending, keep its correspondence in that person’s file so a later question about dates does not require reconstructing the household’s whole history.
Give each adult in the household a copy of that person’s own page rather than storing everything with the principal.