[jdcryans]

As whitenoise mentions below, it's only if your I-140 has been approved or your H1B has been extended that your spouse can work.

Even if you are getting your H1B this October, and assuming that you could qualify for EB-2 in ROW and that your company starts the green card process the day you start working (more likely it's gonna take 6 months to a year), your wife still won't be able to work for another 2 years. Just getting the PERM these days can easily take a year.

Also IANAL.

[jadc]

Indeed. Sounds like it would take before your spouse could be eligible to work but it does seem to be an improvement over the current situation especially for citizens of countries with long backlogs in the permanent residency process (India, China, etc...) where getting the green card can take 10 years or sometimes more.