Access to an account is not U.S. work permission. Assess the spouse’s actual status, location and proposed activity before relying on the arrangement.
Separate platform permissions from immigration permissions
A qualifying E spouse may work incident to valid status with appropriate evidence, while unmarried children under 21 do not receive the spouse work authorization. The principal’s investment does not grant dependent status by itself. A Canadian payment source or unpaid label is not a substitute for the authorization needed for actual work in the United States.
Derivative status depends on being unmarried and under twenty-one, and there is no conditional residence or immigrant petition running in the background to convert into something durable, because this category leads nowhere permanent on its own. Derivative status for an unmarried child ends at 21, the treaty-investor category offers no direct path to permanent residence that would carry the family through, and a student status has its own admission and funding requirements that take months to arrange. Household arrival plans made before a business opens are made with the least information anyone involved will ever have, so agree a date some months out at which the plan is revisited against actual trading, and shape the intervening commitments accordingly.