Will I be considered to be in the US illegally if I don't have an AOS NOA number before my k1 visa expires?

[coriander 1]

Hi, I got my AOS returned too because I used the old version of the i-485 and not the new 12/23/22 version.
Everything has been stapled in small piles, including the wrong I-485, which has been stapled with some evidences, the green letter and the check, all together.
I read on this forum that I shouldn't unstaple anything and sent everything as it is with the new form. But what about the evidences stapled with the old I-485? Should I juste unstaple the form and keep the vidences together ?
There is another pack stapled with some other evidences. just don't want to confuse the officer that review it. Since it got send back "unorganized", maybe it is like they never saw it?
What should I do ?
Thank you very much

[jp1000 25]

46 minutes ago, coriander said:

Hi, I got my AOS returned too because I used the old version of the i-485 and not the new 12/23/22 version.
Everything has been stapled in small piles, including the wrong I-485, which has been stapled with some evidences, the green letter and the check, all together.
I read on this forum that I shouldn't unstaple anything and sent everything as it is with the new form. But what about the evidences stapled with the old I-485? Should I juste unstaple the form and keep the vidences together ?
There is another pack stapled with some other evidences. just don't want to confuse the officer that review it. Since it got send back "unorganized", maybe it is like they never saw it?
What should I do ?
Thank you very much

I personally did carefully remove the staple, and completely removed the I-485 (which had a wrong checkbox checked), then used paper fastners to fasten back the forms to how they originally were, printed a new i-485 and added that to the packet, destroyed the original cover letter and printed a new one because I wanted to amend it, assembled the packet with the green letter on the top then sent it back.

 

This time they accepted it and sent a notice that they received it, hopefully it will be okay but I always expect to get RFE'd on something but I'll be happy if I don't.