chaffa

Thank you very much, I will start filling them.

I am trying to figure out which forms should we (my wife and I) file given my immigration situation:

- I entered the country legally with a student visa (F-1)

- The visa expired on December 31st 2008, so obviously I have overstayed.

- We got engaged at the beginning of the year.

- Got married at the end of June.

- My wife is an american born citizen.

We had a "free" consult with an immigration lawyer, he just told us to "fill either the I-130 or the I-485 form" and do the process ourselves; which sounds like a good idea but really we dont know which of them should we fill. Some websites say we should fill both, but this contradicts what we were told.

Any help and extra information would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks