Do not infer current work permission from proposed Gold Card family inclusion. Review the spouse’s actual present status and applicable authorization.
Distinguish future participation from present permission
The FAQ recommends initially including an eligible joining spouse and unmarried children under 21. Those family terms and payments do not themselves decide the current temporary permission of each person or confer the same work rights on every relative. Each person's permission is evidenced by that person's own record, and this is the point most worth repeating in a household running two processes.
A spouse's ability to work today depends on the spouse's present status and the evidence attaching to it, not on the principal's plans and not on being named in another application. Children have their own dates, and those approaching 21 have questions nobody else has. The failure pattern is a single household calendar with one set of dates on it.
Build one row per person, listing the status, the record that proves it, the end date and any age-linked deadline, then revisit it whenever anyone travels. Where family terms under the published Gold Card conditions are relevant, confirm them from the official source at the time you rely on them and record who is intended to be included, since intention and eligibility are different findings.