A corporate blanket approval does not itself place relatives in dependent status. Review the principal’s actual application route and each family member’s required documents.
Coordinate the household with the individual case
Confirm the spouse’s valid L dependent status and appropriate spouse-specific I-94 evidence for work authorization. Any accompanying L child must be unmarried and under 21; the child does not receive the spouse’s employment benefit through the corporate approval.
Families experience the limit as a surprise even though the date was knowable from the first approval. A qualifying L-2 spouse may be authorized to work incident to status, while children may study but do not gain that same employment privilege. A corporate approval file is organized around the company itself, with organizational charts and financial records that answer questions about the business as a whole rather than about any single person in it. Build a separate personal folder for each family member instead, since a reviewing officer looks at that individual's own evidence rather than at the company's aggregate file. Keep relationship evidence, prior status records, and identity documents together for each person, and avoid assuming the corporate binder can substitute for any single one of them. Label each family member's folder clearly and consistently so nothing from one person's file is ever mistaken for another's during a later review.