No. A qualifying L spouse’s status-based work benefit requires valid status and appropriate evidence. The employer’s promotion is not dependent-status evidence.
Keep family records current
Children do not receive that spousal work benefit solely as dependents.
Since the policy change recognizing L-2 spouses as employment-authorized incident to status, a spouse admitted in L-2 does not need a separate employment authorization document to begin work, provided the admission record carries the spouse annotation that employers accept for verification. Record the citizenship, relationship evidence, and intended activities of the applicant's actual accompanying family members, keeping that analysis distinct from any family relationship that may exist between the business owners on either side of the transfer. L-2 eligibility follows from the executive's own approved L-1A status once granted; the layoff issue is resolved at the principal petition stage and does not create a separate family requirement.
A spouse's employer, a school, and a landlord will each want an answer sooner than the case can give one, and a household that has agreed its own fallback positions in advance answers those questions calmly rather than under pressure.