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An update for anyone who may read this in the future: My husband, the beneficiary, wrote a One and the Same Person Affidavit (just Googled a template). I, the petitioner, and my father, the joint sponsor, wrote one as well. We did NOT notarize them, just typed on the computer, printed, and signed. My father sent us a scanned image of his. I'm not sure if the extra 2 were necessary, but we figured better too much than not enough. This was accepted by the embassy and our visa was successfully processed.

An update for anyone who may read this in the future : we contacted the embassy immediately via their email form and explained the situation. They responded asking for a picture of the back of the envelope,which we sent immediately. A few days later my husband got a phone call from a woman in the embassy who asked again what happened, he told her we received it like that, and she told us we should send it back to be resealed, and include a letter explaining the situation, just in case. We sent the passport and envelope back to the embassy via Citic Bank the next day (August 30). Friday, September 8th, we got a call from the bank that our new envelope had arrived at the bank, but it was almost 5pm, the bank is closing soon so no time to pick it up. We'll get everything Monday morning, fingers crossed we're good to go this time! Their turn around time has been extremely fast throughout the whole process!