Funding the project is not work authorization. Assess the spouse’s actual status, location and proposed supervision duties.
Separate family expenditure from permission
A qualifying E spouse may work incident to valid status with appropriate evidence. An eligible spouse and unmarried children under 21 may seek dependent status, but children do not receive that spouse permission. The principal’s investment does not itself grant admission to the family. Describe the actual role before assuming a property-related task is outside the work question.
A household buying a business abroad usually needs certainty about income during the first trading years, and the spouse's ability to work on the basis of status rather than employer sponsorship is often decisive in that calculation. Family businesses accumulate structure over decades: a holding company, a family trust for estate planning, shares issued to a spouse for income-splitting, an estate freeze that created several classes of shares. 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.