No. TD status carries no work authorization of any kind, and that includes remote work performed inside the United States for a Canadian employer. Study is permitted and children may attend school, but employment requires the spouse to hold a status that authorizes it in her own right.
The prohibition follows the person, not the payroll
Households frequently assume that keeping a Canadian job, a Canadian employer and a Canadian bank account keeps the work outside American jurisdiction. It does not. What matters is where the work is physically performed, so logging in from a house in the United States is employment in the United States, and TD does not authorize it.
The point bites hardest where a household has budgeted on two salaries. Two further facts belong in the same conversation. The relationship must be a legally recognized marriage, because a common-law partner is not a spouse for this purpose and needs a route of their own.
A child stops qualifying for TD at twenty-one, so a household with an older teenager should map that birthday against the intended assignment now. Where the second income is essential, compare this against categories whose spouses are employment-authorized incident to status.
- USCIS: TN NAFTA Professionals
- U.S. Department of State: USMCA professional workers
- Department of State: 9 FAM 402.17, TN and TD guidance
- eCFR: 8 CFR 214.6, Citizens of Canada or Mexico seeking temporary entry as business persons
- eCFR: 8 CFR 103.2, submission and adjudication of benefit requests
- USCIS: Form G-1055, Fee Schedule