回复：请问pjiang老师：AOS期间，副申请人h1被裁，转h4，现移民局要求说明

It is the company's lawyer who messed up the situation.

Under certain circumstances, an alien can still file COS after being out of status. So what you need to do now is:

1) send all copies of paychecks from July to November and explain that your hu*****and was still in H-1b status during that period. It is better for your hu*****and's former employer to issue a letter to confirm this.

2) As an alternative, you should explain that it is not your fault of not timely filing COS (agree with USCIS that your ha*****and was out of status) because you relied on the facts of being continuously paid by the company.

You need carefully prepare your asnwers, better to get a help from a lawyer.