An anniversary alone does not establish the principal’s eligibility or the spouse’s status. Coordinate plans with the reviewed case and each person’s actual permission.
Wait for the appropriate individual basis
Qualifying L spouses are employment authorized incident to status with appropriate documentation. Children do not receive work permission solely through L dependent status. Future eligibility expectations should not be treated as present authorization to work.
Keep the household's irreversible steps behind the point at which the qualifying period is confirmed, not behind the point at which it is expected. Enrolments, resignations and the sale of a home all cost real money to reverse, and none of them changes an employment history that either exists or does not. Hypothetical example: the family of a packaging-line installer times a move to a supposed employment anniversary, and that anniversary turns out to fall inside a period counsel has classified as services supplied through an outside business.
L-2 spouses are generally employment-authorised incident to status; children obtain no work permission from dependent status, though study is a separate question to be checked on its own. Ask counsel for one written date, the date on which the file is assessed as ready, and let the household decisions hang from that date rather than from an anniversary anyone can calculate off an invoice. A useful test before any commitment: name the piece of paper that would prove, to someone who has never met you, that the permission exists today.
If nobody can name it, the commitment waits.