sbk\'s comment is encouraging.. and here what my lawyer says..
I talked today morning to rep. at NVC and per them file has been transfered to Mumbai on 31st Aug,2000.
After that I talked to my lawyer and he confirmed me that he has not received any letter/packet3 from NVC. Per my lawyer, NVC can not send the file to Mumbai unless, we confirm them (same as what gc-project said earlier). I counter question him that why NVC rep. told me that file is t\'fered to Mumbai? Lawyer said it might be possible that computer system have been updated but they haven\'t send the file.
(in otherwords they are ready to send the file to Mumbai, updated computer system, but in absence of confirmation from me/from my lawyer, file might not have been transfered to Mumbai. --- Guys, if that is the case then we are safe saying that file might have been back to INS, Vermont office).
My lawyer also told me that it is very logical that your I485 has been accepted by them and issued "EAC#". I-140 is approved by INS and it has "EAC#" (as i understand EAC stands for Eastern Application Center i.e. INS,Vermont) so I485 may not need I140 file back from anywhere and they are retaining original papers with them. He also mentioned that INS sending all cases to NVC irrespecive of anything.
I asked my lawyer that why my application is even not alloted to any officer where i am seeing some approvals for case filed after my ND? (i checked with IIO on 10th aug., till that it was not assigned). My lawyer told that probably they (INS) are waiting for officer to take up the case.
I also asked about form I824 and my lawyer said that form is to get DUPLICATE of I-485 file.
So, at this juncture, we have to do nothing but to wait.
SBK\'s thread mentioned about his friend\'s case which is same as ours (I140 approved for CP) and is really encouraging. Hope we don\'t have to worry about I140 approved file location.