Describe its actual ownership and any lawful transfer or arrangement. A shared relocation plan does not rewrite who received the compensation.
Keep asset rights distinct from family immigration
A qualifying spouse and unmarried children under 21 may seek derivative status subject to individual requirements and applicable age rules. Those rules do not transfer an award to the principal investor or establish the source and path of another person’s proceeds.
The spouse and unmarried children under 21 are derivatives and receive the same two-year conditional permanent residence, after which conditions must be removed for everyone. Keep the decision tied to its actual subject rather than assume it covers all investors and family members. Remove the investor, spouse, and children from any claimed qualifying job total, regardless of hours or payroll treatment. Ask for the specific calculation at the outset, and build the family plan around the answer. Derivatives are the spouse and unmarried children under 21, and stepchildren qualify only if the marriage occurred before the child turned 18. Establish each account holder’s rights and any agreement governing use of joint funds without assuming that every deposit belongs solely to the principal investor.
A spouse's name on an older joint account does not automatically convert the capital into a new gift that must be documented as one.