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I'm assuming you are talking about the islamic marriage not the legal one.. I have no knowledge of someone that did that but I can imagine your case getting denied if the USCIS know about it. I'm not sure honestly.
Yes, it is my understanding that we will most definitely be denied a K-1 at the interview since we already went through the religious ceremony of marriage, and that we will be told to start over with (and that we should have done) a CR1/I-130.
In my opinion, since you already went through the long and troublesome process of the K1 visa, attend the interview anyways and be honest about your situation and see what happens. Worst case they tell you to file a CR1. Good luck!
For example, a married couple could say they are single for the K-1 by not submitting their marriage certificate even though they have pictures all over Facebook. The burden would be on the couple to prove they qualify for a fiancee visa. It's not the burden of the US Embassy to prove they are married, so they can deny a visa on mere speculations that the couple is married based on circumstantial evidence.
We did the katb el ketab November 28, 2015. The K-1 application was submitted March 2016. So, we went in to this with the thought that we were not legally married, based on the definition of a legal marriage provided on the U.S. Embassy at Cairo website.
We fully disclosed our "situation" at the time of the petition. It has never been a secret! The "marriage contract" and its translation were sent with our petition. An RFE was issued, asking us to prove that this is not a legal/valid marriage in Egypt. A reply was sent with a civil status document (dated just days prior to reply) from the Ministry of Interior, showing the beneficiary as "single". It also included a reminder of the steps deemed necessary for a legal marriage per the embassy's website and emails that we attempted to go through these steps with no success. We were "approved" a week later.
We honest-to-God thought we were doing everything right and would have never wasted our time on a K-1 if there was any indication that we should have gone another route. I am so confused as to why we have made it this far and why we were not denied and re-directed.
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