No. Verify the spouse’s own valid status and actual role. A qualifying E spouse may work incident to valid dependent status, but the principal’s approval alone is not the spouse’s record.
Separate the staffing plan from individual authorization
Identify when the spouse would work, the location and responsibilities, and the applicable status evidence. Children do not receive the spouse employment benefit. Do not treat a family member as confirmed operational support before the arrangement and authorization are established. The business plan should account honestly for any remaining staffing dependency. Dependent eligibility concerns an eligible spouse and unmarried children under 21; assess the individual status and authorized period.
The principal's case must show treaty nationality, irrevocably committed funds exposed to loss, substantiality, a genuine non-marginal enterprise, and development and direction through 50% ownership or operational control. 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. 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.