L dependents may study while maintaining applicable status, but study does not extend the stay or confer work permission.
Review each child’s own dates
Keep school arrangements aligned with actual status and age-related eligibility rather than assuming the employer’s assignment calendar answers every question. Hypothetical example: a wildlife-acoustics technician whose teenager expects to take a paid campus job. At a first review, the first review should list each accompanying person’s planned activity and compare it with their own dependent status rules.
The records most likely to settle that point are passports, civil records, school dates, work plans, and admission records once issued. Sequence the work deliberately: decide whether the assignment works for the family before signing school or employment commitments. A common error is assuming permission to study also permits a child to accept paid work without separate authority; that error matters because a conclusion based on incomplete or mismatched facts may not carry to the final arrangement.
Write down the decision that remains after the review, the fact that could change it, and the record needed to resolve that fact. This creates a usable file rather than a collection of documents that cannot be connected to the actual plan.