The purchase itself does not authorize the spouse’s US work.
Check permission before reallocating duties
Qualifying E spouse status may carry work permission with appropriate evidence. Pending plans or unpaid assistance should not be used as automatic authority to begin the seller’s work.
Spouses of E-2 principals are treated as employment-authorized incident to status after admission with the spouse annotation on the admission record, so the office-manager position is permitted without a separate employment authorization document. List each family member's citizenship, relationship evidence, age, and intended work or study, and treat the spouse's own employment documentation as a separate question from the investor's ability to run the business. A treaty-investor spouse is employment-authorized incident to status and unmarried children under twenty-one may accompany and study, but the category offers no direct path to permanent residence, so a long-term plan needs a separate route. A legally married spouse who holds valid E status is generally employment-authorized, but that is a separate process and not a guaranteed second income by a fixed date. Assess a staged relocation against the actual lease outcome, the principal’s status and the spouse’s or children’s process; no common approval date is guaranteed. Children in dependent status may attend school but do not obtain work permission through a parent, and a child approaching adulthood should be planned for individually rather than assumed to continue.