The employer can fund a move, but its benefits letter cannot grant the spouse L status or permission to work. Check the spouse’s own immigration evidence before accepting a job or scheduling a start date.
Separate the benefit administrator’s documents from status evidence
Keep reimbursements, insurance and moving support in the company-benefits file. For the immigration file, confirm the qualifying marriage and the spouse’s valid L status and appropriate evidence: qualifying L spouses may work incident to status, so an EAD is not universally required. Children must be unmarried and under 21 to qualify as L dependents, and that status gives them no employment authorization. Each relative needs to obtain and maintain the appropriate status; neither a paid relocation allowance nor the principal’s approval does that for everyone.
A spouse who has held more than one status, a child who spent a year studying elsewhere, a period when someone travelled separately — each is part of the household's history and each may matter when options are being weighed. The principal’s transfer and the spouse’s admission may not occur on the same day, so build the household budget around the actual dates rather than a shared assumption.