The family needs individual status and activity assessment. A corporate appointment is not a family immigration decision.
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Qualifying L spouses are employment authorized incident to status with appropriate documentation. Children do not gain work permission solely through L dependent status. Include proposed board participation, employment or study in the relevant individual review.
Properly documented L-2 spouse status itself confers employment authorization, whereas children do not receive that work permission. Board membership and employment are not the same question, and an appointment letter naming someone to a board says nothing on its own about whether that role counts as work requiring its own authorization. Identify whether the position involves compensation, ongoing services or decision-making duties beyond attending occasional meetings, since a genuinely governance-only role is assessed differently from an operational one. Request a written description of the board's actual expectations before assuming a title alone settles the question, and confirm the spouse's classification supports whatever activity the description reveals. Ask whether the organization itself treats board service as employment for its own purposes, since that internal treatment does not control the separate immigration analysis but can reveal what the role actually requires. Keep the governance question and the family's own status review as two distinct tasks handled on their own timelines. Save any board correspondence separately from the family's own immigration file, so the two records stay easy to tell apart if either one is ever requested.