The investor’s spouse and sons or daughters are excluded from qualifying worker counts, as is the investor.
Keep family and project roles distinct
A genuine family employment arrangement still does not make that worker qualifying for this count. Derivative eligibility concerns a spouse or unmarried child under 21, subject to any applicable CSPA calculation.
Conditional residence gives the whole family the rights of permanent residents for two years: the spouse may work anywhere, children may study, and no separate authorization is needed. The Child Status Protection Act addresses part of that gap for some applicants by allowing certain periods to be subtracted from a child's age, and whether it helps a particular family is a question for counsel rather than an assumption. Separate principal investors need their own qualifying petitions and investments assessed, while eligible derivatives follow the appropriate family process rather than being presumed additional principal investors. Adding a spouse and unmarried children under 21 as derivatives creates neither another ten-job obligation nor a second capital threshold, although age and relationship evidence need individual review. Statutory provisions exist that can protect certain applicants from the effects of processing delay, and their application is technical and fact-specific, so a family in that position needs advice on their own dates rather than reassurance.