A company’s approval is not status evidence. A qualifying E spouse may work incident to valid status with appropriate documentation; the principal’s commercial agreement does not itself provide that benefit.
Plan who will actually perform the second role
A qualifying spouse and unmarried children under 21 may seek derivative status, but children receive no spousal work benefit. Identify each person’s actual admission and activity. Do not treat two locations under one brand as a single family authorization.
The dependents' options follow the investor's status, so the principal case comes first: treaty nationality by citizenship, at least fifty percent treaty ownership, substantial capital genuinely committed and at risk in a real operating United States enterprise, non-marginality, and an actual develop-and-direct role. 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. 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. Where a family member will run the source business, agree what they are being asked to do and for how long, and whether their own plans change as a result, since an informal arrangement made quickly tends to be revisited unhappily.