Ownership alone does not establish immigration permission. Qualifying E spouses may be employment-authorized incident to status with appropriate documentation.
Check the actual individual status
Identify intended duties and relevant evidence. Children do not receive work permission solely through E dependent status. The dependent category concerns a qualifying spouse or unmarried child under 21, each with actual status evidence.
For a household moving on a single business, the spouse's ability to earn elsewhere is often what makes the first two years survivable, and here it comes with the status rather than requiring a separate application. The principal investor must separately show treaty nationality, qualifying national ownership of the enterprise, substantial capital irrevocably committed and at risk, a real nonmarginal operation, and development and direction through fifty percent ownership or operational control. Keep a second household plan alive until the enterprise question has an answer, because schooling, housing, and a spouse's employment plans all depend on an application that may not proceed if the holding turns out to be passive. The specific failure worth naming is a relative who begins working in the enterprise because the family owns it, without authorization of their own — a problem created by ownership being mistaken for permission.