Children do not receive employment permission solely from L dependent status.
Separate school from employment
L dependents may study while maintaining status, but enrolment does not authorize work or extend their stay. Review each child’s circumstances and documents.
Households that have moved between assignments usually hold a scattered set of documents across several countries, and the practical advice is to consolidate them before they are needed: each family member's passports including expired ones, birth certificates, school records and any prior immigration documents. After entry, retrieve the spouse’s admission record from the official system and check the class it shows; a qualifying L spouse is employment authorized incident to status with the appropriate documentation, which an employer will normally want to see rather than hear described. The common planning failure is arranging a spouse's start date or a child's activity before confirming admission records, while overlooking that the principal's L-1B eligibility rests on the qualifying relationship, foreign year, and specialized-knowledge assignment. A dependant's authorized period is derived from the principal's and can be granted shorter than the household expects, while school registration, a lease and a spouse's employment authorization each answer to a different calendar and a different office.