Will we be okay? (Possibly led astray by solicitor?)

[davidshutter]

My wife (US) and I meet all the financial and other such criteria, and have all of the evidence and then some. However I am now concerned that we have been led astray by our solicitor in terms of the process of actually submitting evidence.

We employed a solicitor to assist with our application for a spousal visa, the practice are immigration law specialists, however I am becoming convinced that they have not submitted a US application before.
Through them we have collated and copied reams of evidence, and I sat with one of their solicitors to complete the online forms, which we mailed to my wife in the states. The solicitor told us that she would submit her passport at the Embassy, along with the originals of some of the evidence, and we would mail the bulk of it from here direct to Sheffield.

She went to her appointment, where she was told this was not correct, and that she should send her documents to Sheffield herself using the VFSglobal website. We did this the following day and told the solicitor, who sent our package of evidence along too. I mentioned to them my concern at the time, offered to have my wife mail the documents to them, or vice versa, so it could all be sent as one package, but they assured us that this wasn't necessary.

My wifes package arrived at Sheffield today and she got the following by email.

If you have made a Settlement application (except for applications lodged in USA and Canada): you must ensure that your UK sponsor has sent all relevant supporting documentation to the UK Decision Making Centre in Sheffield. The documents should be arranged in this order: application form and relevant Appendix* (See below); English language evidence; relationship documents; maintenance documents; accommodation documents. If documents are not received a decision will be taken on the basis on the information that has been provided.

My concern is the "except for applications lodged in USA and Canada" line. We seem to have followed the procedure for other countries, and we are now worried that the two packages won't be connected together, and that the decision will be made using only the items my wife sent (her passport, some letters from her work, a marriage certificate and a copy of the solicitors' cover letter), which obviously is insufficient as it has none of my financial or housing evidence, or the photos, emails, Facebook, WhatsApp, etc etc etc that we have sent via the solicitor.

Can somebody reassure me that we will be okay? We have included my wife's GWF number on both packages, and there is a copy of her biometrics receipt in the solicitor package so they should be really easy to tie together.

TLDR: If we have submitted evidence to Sheffield for a spousal visa from the USA in two packages, will they be connected at the DMC, because some of the documentation we have received suggests this was the wrong way to go about things, despite our solicitor insisting on it this way.