Plan a household move when family members will arrive in stages

Hypothetical example: a Regina TN professional travelling first, an L-2 spouse planning work and a child nearing 21. Staggered travel requires each person's documentation and intended activities to be considered. The first traveller's arrangements should not become an assumed template for everyone else. Review the governing records and current official conditions before making any irreversible employment, travel or financial commitment. Hypothetical example: A principal applicant plans to travel first, while a spouse who is an occupational therapist and two children will follow after the school term. One child is nearly twenty-one and the spouse hopes to work soon after arrival. The decision is whether each person's proposed date and activity fits the derivative rules of the principal's actual route. Create a person-by-person table with relationship evidence, passport, intended entry date, school plan, work plan, and any age-sensitive deadline. Civil records settle family ties; principal approval or admission evidence establishes the derivative basis; separate immigration records settle work or independent options. Do not assume that a spouse's or child's plan is authorized merely because the household will live together. On qualifying E and L routes a spouse may have work authorization incident to status, but dependent children do not receive that permission; TD status does not permit employment. The family working file should end with a short decision note: proceed, pause for a missing record, or select a different route. Name the record that settles each open point, its custodian, and the event that may change the answer. This turns a long list of documents into a usable sequence. It also prevents a commercial deadline, a sales claim, or a family expectation from being treated as proof of an immigration requirement in writing. Record adverse facts beside favorable ones and resolve material discrepancies before submitting any representation.