Usually yes. Schooling, housing and a spouse's employment plans all depend on an application that may not proceed if the holding turns out to be passive. Eligible spouses and unmarried children under twenty-one can be dependents once a principal case exists, but nothing about dependent planning is useful while the underlying enterprise question is unresolved.
Keep a second household plan alive
Households often commit to a move before the immigration analysis is complete, then discover the asset does not support the case. Hold school applications, notice periods and property decisions until the enterprise question has an answer. If the family expects a spouse to earn, note that any employment authorization would come from the spouse's own qualifying status and evidence of it, not from the family's ownership of American assets.
Keep a second household plan alive until the enterprise question has an answer, because schooling, housing, and a spouse's employment plans all depend on an application that may not proceed if the holding turns out to be passive. Households commonly commit to a move before the analysis is complete and then discover the asset does not support the case. Hold school applications, notice periods, and property decisions until the question is settled.
Eligible spouses and unmarried children under twenty-one can be dependants once a principal case exists, and any employment authorisation for a spouse would come from their own qualifying status rather than from asset ownership.