The business still needs its own assessment under the applicable standard.
Keep household and enterprise facts distinct
A spouse’s resources may explain household planning without proving the enterprise’s economic contribution. Qualifying E spouse work permission depends on appropriate actual status with required evidence.
Prepare each dependent's own identity and relationship evidence: passports, the marriage certificate for a legally married spouse, and birth certificates showing parentage and each child's age. Employment authorization for an E-2 spouse arises from the status itself; the annotated admission record issued on arrival is what an employer asks to see, and no separate application is needed before starting. The first review should produce a household activity plan distinguishing investment proof from permission to manage, work, study, or travel.; each conclusion should point to the record that settles it. Dependent children may attend school, but child status carries no work authorisation and it ends at twenty-one, which is worth marking in the plan when a business is expected to be held for several years. The principal must prove qualifying treaty-country nationality rather than permanent residence, qualifying enterprise ownership, and development and direction through at least half ownership or operational control. Eligible spouses and unmarried children under twenty-one can be dependents once a principal case exists, but nothing about dependent planning is useful while the underlying enterprise question is unresolved.