The spouse’s actual status and required employment-authorization evidence remain necessary.
Keep the family permission separate
Qualifying L spouses may work incident to appropriate status, but the principal’s seniority is not that status. A pending application or employer benefit does not establish it.
A child who is nineteen at the move will be twenty-one before a five-year assignment ends, and on that birthday dependant status ends regardless of school enrolment or family circumstances. Verify the spouse's current documentation and consider any independent employment route, rather than assuming an EAD is always the answer. The first review should make clear that the principal's knowledge file proves the principal's classification, not a child's right to accept employment or a relative's eligibility. A lease, a school registration and a spouse's employment documentation each have their own renewal points, and none of them moves because a rollout is extended. An unmarried partner cannot hold L-2 and would need their own basis to enter and remain, such as visitor admission for short stays or an independent work or study status. Review each family member’s relationship, status and intended activity separately from the company’s staffing preference. A spouse working in valid L-2S status therefore has a second income tied to the same date, and children's schooling arrangements sit on that same calendar. Dependent eligibility concerns an eligible spouse and unmarried children under 21; assess the individual status and authorized period.