L dependents may study while maintaining the relevant status. Study does not itself extend authorized stay or provide employment permission.
Check work permissions separately
Qualifying L spouses are employment authorized incident to status with appropriate documentation. Dependent children do not gain that permission solely through L status. Review each person’s actual study, work and travel plans.
An L dependent child must be unmarried and under 21 and does not receive the spouse’s employment authorization. A supplier moving a meeting does not extend anyone’s authorized stay. A school's enrollment office may request its own separate proof of the family's current status before registering a dependent child, apart from anything the school later needs for a diploma or transcript. Contact the registrar early to learn exactly which documents that particular institution actually accepts, since requirements vary widely by institution and are not set by immigration rules alone in every single case that arises. Keep the school's own enrollment deadline entirely distinct from the family's status timeline, because an approaching semester start does not shorten how long a status review actually takes to complete properly. Ask the school whether partial-year or mid-term enrollment is genuinely available, in case the family's documents are not ready by the institution's usual start date, and confirm that specific answer in writing rather than relying on a general policy described informally by front-office staff.