Hello-
two weeks ago, i found out that my employment is being terminated. Since I married a US citizen 6 months prior to that, we immediately filed for a greencard through marriage and submitted everything before my termination date. sadly though, we used an expired form (i130) and the whole package was sent back with a rejection notice. we then used an updated version and sent everything back on the same day, but by then, i had already been laid off (last day was 10/15 and i received the rejection notice on 10/20). All of the form had been stamped by uscis with a date, which was prior to my lay off date. but i am just really worried, that i am now out of status. also, i submitted form i485...now that it was initially rejected (because of the expired form in the package), does that mean i do not qualify for a status adjustment anymore? i don't know what to do. i don't have enough money to pay for an immigration lawyer. any suggestions?
two weeks ago, i found out that my employment is being terminated. Since I married a US citizen 6 months prior to that, we immediately filed for a greencard through marriage and submitted everything before my termination date. sadly though, we used an expired form (i130) and the whole package was sent back with a rejection notice. we then used an updated version and sent everything back on the same day, but by then, i had already been laid off (last day was 10/15 and i received the rejection notice on 10/20). All of the form had been stamped by uscis with a date, which was prior to my lay off date. but i am just really worried, that i am now out of status. also, i submitted form i485...now that it was initially rejected (because of the expired form in the package), does that mean i do not qualify for a status adjustment anymore? i don't know what to do. i don't have enough money to pay for an immigration lawyer. any suggestions?
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