A staffing plan is not immigration status or employment authorization.
Separate hiring intentions from permission
Qualifying L spouses may work incident to appropriate status with the required evidence. Confirm the actual permission before assigning duties; a pending family case cannot fill a staffing gap on paper.
Prepare a separate family timeline showing each dependent's passport validity, relationship record, travel plan, school need and prospective work activity. Keep proposed school and employment starts conditional on the permissions each person actually holds; the owner’s business-opening date need not be everyone’s arrival date. Children in L-2 may attend school but may not work, and their eligibility ends at twenty-one, so a household with an older teenager should map that person's own route early rather than assume the family status covers them. Children may generally study under the published guidance and hold no work permission through dependent status at any age, and a child approaching twenty-one needs an independent basis planned well in advance. A spouse who has held more than one status, a child who spent a year studying elsewhere, a period when someone travelled separately — each is part of the household's history and each may matter when options are being weighed. Plan around the principal’s reviewed transfer rather than the return-to-work date, because the family’s applications depend on the principal actually holding the status, not on the employer having approved the move.