AOS DENIED! HELP

[aaron2020 11,651]

Wait for the letter.  You are driving yourself nuts.  Small errors do not result in outright denials.

[dwheels76 5,468]

You have to just hang on an wait for the letter. Yes we all have seen denials of I-485 some are small errors. Seems USCIS is really flexin their muscles. I just had a friend denied because she submitted the account transcripts after an RFE to submit more financials.
Her husband got the letter to appeal or leave country within 30 days. They choose leave within 30 days she will refile for him later (He had things to do back in his country anyway and couldn't leave before).

I just hope your lawyer truly sent what was needed and didn't do a lawyer thing and omit wand hoped for an RFE (lawyers are famous for that. Thinking USCIS always will send RFE when they need something.

 

Just be patient wait for letter.

[aaron2020 11,651]

6 minutes ago, dwheels76 said:

You have to just hang on an wait for the letter. Yes we all have seen denials of I-485 some are small errors. Seems USCIS is really flexin their muscles. I just had a friend denied because she submitted the account transcripts after an RFE to submit more financials.
Her husband got the letter to appeal or leave country within 30 days. They choose leave within 30 days she will refile for him later (He had things to do back in his country anyway and couldn't leave before).

I just hope your lawyer truly sent what was needed and didn't do a lawyer thing and omit wand hoped for an RFE (lawyers are famous for that. Thinking USCIS always will send RFE when they need something.

 

Just be patient wait for letter.

Your friend got a denial because she sent the wrong thing in response to the RFE.  Completely different situation from the OP.

[geowrian 22,337]

Agreed - very different:

1) Was issued an RFE first

2) Sent wrong response to RFE

[kitkatlover 1]

50 minutes ago, dwheels76 said:

You have to just hang on an wait for the letter. Yes we all have seen denials of I-485 some are small errors. Seems USCIS is really flexin their muscles. I just had a friend denied because she submitted the account transcripts after an RFE to submit more financials.
Her husband got the letter to appeal or leave country within 30 days. They choose leave within 30 days she will refile for him later (He had things to do back in his country anyway and couldn't leave before).

I just hope your lawyer truly sent what was needed and didn't do a lawyer thing and omit wand hoped for an RFE (lawyers are famous for that. Thinking USCIS always will send RFE when they need something.

 

Just be patient wait for letter.

Do you know what those small errors were that led to denials? I noticed that you're in Houston, is your friend's local field office in Houston too?

[Indy Sab 174]

1 hour ago, Adriana & Johna said:

Yes, She does, i informed her yesterday about the denial and she was surprised as well, she said for the most part denials are given after an interview, but I was looking over the petition she sent to USCIS and I found about 5 small errores, from date of births to country and city names, Im not sure if its because of that I am still waiting on a letter and so is she. 

hello, sorry but if your lawyer who you trust and are paying to help you with your process made mistakes on the certificate... get your money back... there is no excuse for her to make mistakes.. that is the reason why you are paying her to help your process go smooth with no mistakes.... 

[aaron2020 11,651]

4 minutes ago, kitkatlover said:

Do you know what those small errors were that led to denials? I noticed that you're in Houston, is your friend's local field office in Houston too?

It was not denied for small errors.  

 

It was denied because they did not properly answer the RFE for tax returns/tax transcripts which is a big mistake.  

Edited November 20, 2019 by aaron2020

[Scandi 4,166]

You already found several errors on the form, made by your lawyer. Is there a reason you're still using this lawyer, or any lawyer for that matter?

[LoveAlways2 90]

Oh no! Im sorry you are going through this. You do need to wait for the letter so that you know how to respond. Try not to panic. 

[kitkatlover 1]

31 minutes ago, aaron2020 said:

It was not denied for small errors.  

 

It was denied because they did not properly answer the RFE for tax returns/tax transcripts which is a big mistake.  

I hope that's the case. My lawyer office made several small errors in my application, the most concerning one is wrong ssn (repeated digit in the middle leaving the last digit out) for my husband on form I-864 so I am really nervous about this. Like, what if they think we used a fake ssn or if the ssn belongs to someone else and the info doesn't match...wouldn't it make my husband illegible to be my sponsor? I'm not sure about this but so far I've heard that I-864 will be processed with I-485 which will be handled separately from I-130 (my husband's ssn here is correct) so pretty much the only way they know of his correct ssn is by looking at his tax transcript. I've been asking around and it looks like the consensus opinion is it's not much of a big issue and should not affect the progress. The lawyer said to correct it at interview or unless there is an RFE issued otherwise he wouldn't want to risk delaying the application. I've checked USCIS website online about e-request to correct typos but they don't have the option for I-864 available for me to do so. 

[kitkatlover 1]

32 minutes ago, Scandi said:

You already found several errors on the form, made by your lawyer. Is there a reason you're still using this lawyer, or any lawyer for that matter?

Literally my thought right now with my case as well. The legal assistant made several typo errors on my application. I've paid them the first out of three installment of their fee and I'm not satisfied with such sloppy job at all. some good things came out of it is probably the lawyer's advice for us. I wish I had found this forum sooner, I could have done a much better job filling out forms than this *_*. Our situation is a bit peculiar. I'm on F1 for grad school and just got married to my husband who is a PhD student in a different state so we won't be able to live together for another year. That was why I felt like we needed the help of a lawyer who is actually very reputable with a high successful rate where I live. Another thing I'm on the fence about just going on handling the case by ourselves is at least with the lawyer, he's accountable for when something went wrong on his part, which already did 😕 and he knows the system well so his knowledge and experience should help better than none...Again really I hope for something better to come out in the future here

[Adriana & Johna 6]

2 hours ago, kitkatlover said:

Oh my goodness! This makes me scared now. I hope that is not the case...My application has some typo mistakes too.  If your lawyer also receives updates on your case then you didn't miss any letters from USCIS. Are the mistakes in I-485?

 Please keep us updated.

 Yes the mistakes are mostly on the I-485 but there are some on the other 2 forms  it’s so upsetting but no worries! All the cases are different hopefully this doesn’t happen to you I will for sure update once I get the denial letter! 

[Adriana & Johna 6]

1 hour ago, Indira/Charlys said:

hello, sorry but if your lawyer who you trust and are paying to help you with your process made mistakes on the certificate... get your money back... there is no excuse for her to make mistakes.. that is the reason why you are paying her to help your process go smooth with no mistakes.... 

agree!!!! 

[Adriana & Johna 6]

59 minutes ago, Scandi said:

You already found several errors on the form, made by your lawyer. Is there a reason you're still using this lawyer, or any lawyer for that matter?

 Well lawyers are humans just like you and I, I guess that was a personal decision on hiring a lawyer!  but thanks for the opinion! Not all lawyers make mistakes and we have no idea if and when they make those mistakes! 

[SalishSea 17,829]

1 hour ago, Adriana & Johna said:

 Well lawyers are humans just like you and I, I guess that was a personal decision on hiring a lawyer!  but thanks for the opinion! Not all lawyers make mistakes and we have no idea if and when they make those mistakes! 

The point is, you're paying them not to make those mistakes.  Often is is big bucks, too.

 

This is a good reminder that there is no amount of money you can pay someone to care about your own process as much as you do.