Review each household’s actual documents and circumstances. Colleagues applying together do not make every spouse or child’s eligibility and admission period identical.
Keep family records separate across the group
For each spouse relying on work, verify valid L dependent status and appropriate spouse-specific I-94 evidence. Each L dependent child must be unmarried and under 21 and does not receive the spouse’s employment authorization; one household’s dates should not be copied to another.
Qualifying L spouses may be employment authorized incident to status with appropriate documentation, but work permission does not by itself establish the principal applicant’s required foreign employment. Coordinating several households together through a shared spreadsheet or group message is convenient for everyday logistics but is never a substitute for each person's own official record. Confirm every date directly from the employer's or attorney's formal file for that specific individual, rather than relying on a summary compiled loosely for the whole group at once. A processing date for one household can land earlier or later than for another even when both filings were submitted during the same calendar week, since queues and review paths are never identical between separate cases. Ask whose responsibility it is to update the shared tracker whenever an individual date changes, so outdated information is not carried forward and mistaken for someone else's accurate record.