A qualifying E spouse’s work benefit depends on valid status and appropriate evidence. Travel convenience does not grant it, and children lack that benefit solely as dependents.
Describe actual household activities
Identify work performed while physically in the United States and the individual category. Do not assume Canadian payment or a short stay resolves permission. The dependent category is for a qualifying spouse or unmarried child under 21; each person needs valid status.
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. Identify the treaty-national investor, confirm that qualifying nationals own at least 50 percent of the enterprise, and document how the principal will develop and direct it through ownership or operational control. A spouse's own employment plans and a child's schooling and age-related deadlines are separate matters from the investor's ability to operate the enterprise, and should not be assumed to be resolved by the investment itself. Household income and enterprise capacity answer different questions, and a plan that reaches non-marginality only by counting a spouse's separate earnings has not shown what it appears to show.