My I-485 got rejected and I don't know what to do next

[MagdalenaB 8]

Hello everyone! I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this, but I shall give it a try ! I apologize in advance if it's not the right one though. 

 

So I filed a K-1 visa based AOS and I just received the rejection notice in my mail today. The two reasons were that my I-485 was outdated and that the payment amount was incorrect. I took out two USPS money orders - one for $1000 and one for $225. 

My package contains the following forms: I-485(AOS), I-864(Affidavit), I-131(Travel Doc), I-765(Employment), G-1145(e-Notification) and all the supporting documentation. Are these the correct ones? I keep seeing people filing I-130 , but I cannot understand exactly WHO is required to do so. Am I? 

Otherwise what was wrong with my payment? AOS is $1040 and biometrics is $85, summing to $1225. Or is it maybe the fact that there were two money orders? Anyway, my husband and I will resubmit it this week and pay via the credit card form that is now available. 

 

 I see that all my documentation has a unique identification number at the bottom of the pages and I want to know if I need to reprint everything once more for the new submission or just the outdated I-485. My new submission of the Form I-485 will have written on the front cover that it is an original submission still? Or will that have to change and to what ? It is my understanding that filing a concurrent Form I-131 with the Form I-485 means that the fees for Form I-131 are waived (or they are included in the $1040). 

 

I'm a little lost here...I'd appreciate any kind of help! 

[TNJ17 1,329]

It’s not the separate money orders. Those are fine. It’s $1140 not $1040 but your total was right so I don’t know what the problem may be with the money. You filed the right forms but maybe you had the older versions of the forms so maybe that’s why it got rejected. Other than that you look good. 

[MagdalenaB 8]

Oh, I'm sorry, I typed it wrong. I meant $1140 and $225 .  I am now filing the forms once more and printing them again, because I don't know if they will take the old ones I sent ( I'm mainly talking about the proof docs) since they printed their USCIS system numbers on the bottom of all the pages.. I don't want to risk anything. 

[TNJ17 1,329]

Yeah, go directly on the USCIS website to print the forms, don’t take it from VJ, sometimes they’re outdated (I don’t know if you did that or not but I’m just saying). Double check and triple check everything. I really don’t see an issue with your fee, you submitted the right amount, maybe it’s who you wrote the money order out to. You have to write it out to US Department of Homeland Security no abbreviations. 

[MagdalenaB 8]

This is how I wrote the money orders... I did not know before hand that USPS can only issue money orders for up to $1000. I assumed they would just give me one for $1225. I am filling out my forms again from the USCIS site and gonna use the credit card option. 

 

Thank you so much for your replies!

 

 

 

[sunshinelove 52]

I sent my AOS packet in January 2018 and got it back in the mail as well. It had numbers stamped on the bottom and was all out of order but I just followed the directions on the paper included on why it was rejected. I didn't have the current forms. I just took out the old versions of the forms and replaced them with current ones. I didn't reprint everything (just the wrong forms) and put everything back in a new envelope and rewrote a new check and left everything like they had it and included the colored sheet on top and as of 06/06/18 we got approved