NorthByNorthwest

Appeals will typically not consider documents submitted after the denial decision was made so it is essentially useless to appeal a denial due to failure to respond to RFE. As the others have said, your fastest option is for your sister to submit a new petition while discussing between the two of you why you missed the RFE. For example, did she move and failed to notify USCIS? You lost a few years in the queue, but since the total wait is likely to be 20+ years it will not have that big of an impact in the end.

How many trips are we talking about? Keep in mind you only need to list trips taken in the past 5 (or 3) years which for most people applying now includes a sizable gap of no travel during the pandemic. I had close to 100 land border crossings to Canada with very spotty records, I did both a FOIA request on the US side and an ATIP request in Canada for entry/exit records - for land travel to Canada I found the Canadian records to be of better quality. Chances are that at your naturalization interview the officer will have the same info that's in your FOIA request so you don't want to be too far off, definitely don't leave it blank. At the end of the day, the main purpose of these records is to show that you meet the residency requirements, as long as you don't have long absences or come close to the limits the records won't be scrutinized that closely.

Either someone is scamming your fiancé or he's not telling you the truth. Like the others have said there is zero chance he'd get an H1B visa without an existing job offer. If he applied for a visa through some sort of agency or other middleman chances are high they're simply scamming him with promises of a visa if he just pays "one more urgent handling fee" or something along those lines.

The paragraph quoted by @JeanneAdil is for standard visitors and does not apply to people relocating to the US, that's covered under CBP form 3299: https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/cbp_form_3299_0.pdf. I had half a container of stuff including a 70" TV and some very expensive bikes - no issues, didn't pay a cent, but my mover handled all the paperwork. All descriptions were on a per-box basis, not per-item, for example "Clothes", "Shoes", "PC items", "Toys", "Kitchen Machines". They did caution me to not include alcohol since that could delay clearance, so my coworkers got 25 bottles of very nice Scotch, not worth the potential hassle though they were worth a few thousand dollars.

This seems mainly like an issue with your agent rather than anything else. There is no 850 GBP limitation for used household goods that you are bringing with you - technically you could be required to prove that you have owned the items at least a year, but that's pretty much it. Is your agent treating this like a general shipment of goods rather than household goods for a relocation? They are supposed to know how to handle the paperwork but it sounds like their online system is limited. I wouldn't worry about not finding exact matches to all your stuff, just go with the closest match.

Not sure where you saw numbers starting with IOE09 - my case from over a year ago started with IOE922 so yours seem to fit the pattern just fine.

I'm not sure what your "engagement party online" looked like, but if you end up applying for K-1 do avoid including any mention or pictures of that party since USCIS may well consider you too married for K-1 and deny the application if the party had even a remote resemblance to a wedding ceremony.

Never rely on ChatGPT for providing factually correct answers, that's not what it's for. Like you already discovered, Israel and Portugal are from different regions and unfortunately your entry will most likely be disqualified: 9 FAM 42.33 N4.3 Errors in Choice of Country of Chargeability (CT:VISA-1478; 08-26-2010) If the entrant chooses the wrong country of chargeability at the time of the initial entry, the error will generally be disqualifying. However, if a DV applicant chooses a country of chargeability during DV registration that is within the same geographic region (one of the six) as the correct country of chargeability, and you determine that the applicant gained no benefit from his or her error, you may continue processing the application. You can certainly try to continue the process while clearly stating your mistake, but you will probably be wasting your time.

Last I read about it Spain does not permit dual citizenship in general, but if you are born in Spain you can keep your Spanish citizenship after acquiring US citizenship _if_ you declare your intent to do so within three years of acquiring it.

Zero need to show that you're talking to each other on the phone a lot, after all you're supposed to be living together. One page to show that you have the same billing address is the only relevant bit.