Only if the spouse genuinely has a relevant company role that helps explain operations. Their family relationship does not establish staffing or managerial authority, and proposed work must be distinguished from authorized current employment.
Keep the two evidence files aligned
An eligible spouse may work incident to qualifying L-2 status with appropriate documentation. If the spouse performs operational tasks, describe those facts accurately without implying that dependent eligibility proves actual employment. L-2 children cannot work, even if the business is family-owned.
Prepare separate relationship and status records for dependents, while the principal’s duty statement remains focused on real managerial responsibilities. Ask whether the spouse role belongs in this document at all, and default to leaving it out. It belongs only where the spouse genuinely holds a company role helping to explain how the operation runs, and even then it is described as a fact about the business rather than as support for the principal authority.
A family relationship establishes no staffing and no managerial authority. An eligible spouse may work incident to qualifying L-2 status with appropriate documentation, and proposed work must be distinguished from employment currently authorized. L-2 children cannot work even in a family-owned business.
Keep the dependent relationship and status records in their own file.