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[AdamNZ 0]

My wife (American) filed the I-130 in October (we are both in the US), but we realized afterwards that we should have filed the I-130 and 485 together. We have sent in the 485 in the meantime but have we messed things up? I just don't want to have to leave the country while this processes.

[aleful 1,905]

My wife (American) filed the I-130 in October (we are both in the US), but we realized afterwards that we should have filed the I-130 and 485 together. We have sent in the 485 in the meantime but have we messed things up? I just don't want to have to leave the country while this processes.

did you send in all the rest of the forms, the whole adjustment of status packet, did you do the medical and vaccinations? if not you will get an RFE for the missing forms

[AdamNZ 0]

Everything is in- the whole I-130 and I-485 packets, w/ sponsor forms, medical, bios, photos, etc. We were so meticulous with everything, I can't believe we missed that they should have been sent in together. I think what tripped us up is that we have a few sets of American-Kiwi couples, who all have their green cards now and when we checked with them at the start, they had sent in the 130 solo. What we realized later was they were out of the US when they filed. Hopefully it won't be an issue that the packets weren't sent in together.

Edited January 7, 2013 by AdamNZ

[Penguin_ie 5,986]

*** Moving from AOS from Family Visa to AOS from Work/ Tourist visa; the fact that OP filed a I-130 indicated he did not come on a K1 ****

[Hypnos 6,576]

Hopefully when you later submitted the I-485 you also enclosed a copy of the NOA for your I-130 so that your applications could be matched up and paired together in the system.

Obviously this is not required if you file concurrently.

[Alonso&Sheryl 10]

Hopefully when you later submitted the I-485 you also enclosed a copy of the NOA for your I-130 so that your applications could be matched up and paired together in the system.

Obviously this is not required if you file concurrently.

Yeah, that is what I would have done. I would send the i-485 along with the notice of action of my i-130 so they can put them together.

Also, make sure you sent them to the right lock box. Just because now you are sending the second form, it does not mean you get to send it to the same lock box as you would had you filed it all together.