Thankfully while the beaurocracy might like it better dishing out cold refusals based on a misfiled form, the law doesn’t work that way. You don’t actually get to throw away someone’s station in life because of a paperwork mistake. And we see once a judge was involved in fact the law made the right call.

Of course Lucas fucked up by filling out the wrong form and should have had a lawyer review it. And his immigration status was at stake and he blew it. It doesn’t mean these things can’t be fixed by humans making the right decision.