A spouse and unmarried children under twenty-one may be included as derivatives, receive conditional permanent residence alongside the investor, and are included when the conditions are removed. Adult children and other relatives are outside the petition and need routes of their own.
Age and marital status decide inclusion, and neither of them waits
Derivative eligibility reaches the spouse and unmarried sons and daughters who are under twenty-one at the relevant point, and the calculation of that age is technical enough that it should be assessed rather than assumed, because processing times feed into it. Two planning consequences follow. The family's own timetable, rather than the convenience of the business, should influence when the petition is filed, since months that are commercially unimportant may be decisive for a nineteen-year-old.
And derivatives receive the same conditional status, so their two years run alongside Bettina's and their conditions are removed on the same filing. One further point matters in a family-run enterprise: relatives who obtain residence this way still cannot be counted towards the ten qualifying jobs, so employing a son in the distillery helps the family and not the petition.