CA - Confidential Marriage - Experiences?

[APA 44]

I’ve searched this forum and the internet and am getting a lot of conflicting (albeit mostly anecdotal) feedback on getting a confidential license & marriage in California. I’m only interested in feedback from people who have done this successfully, people who have had problems with it, or people who have real working knowledge of this specific issue. Not looking for anecdotal speculation, inexperienced opinion, or repeating something you read somewhere before.   

 

I want the confidential license & marriage for 2 reasons: 1.) I am estranged from my [deleted], destructive family and I don’t want them in my business. It’ll be nothing but drama and headache and there’s a very good reason I’ve cut them out of my life. 2.) I’ve spent the better part of a year having my personal information removed from Google, data brokers, data mining companies, and marketing databases. My information was part of the Equifax breach and I’ve spent a lot of time mitigating risk by reducing my digital footprint and reinforcing my privacy. The less of your personal information is out there, the better. My personal privacy is very important to me. If I get scrutinized by USCIS, I’ll be happy to provide documentation of these things and explain myself. I’ve got nothing to hide. 

 

I’ve read of couples who did the confidential route on a K1 and had no issues. I’ve read tons of posts saying not to do this because it’s a ‘guaranteed problem/red flag/denial/stokes/etc’ yet I have not found a single person who actually experienced trouble with it. 

 

Feedback from anyone who has actual experience with this is greatly appreciated. 

Edited January 29, 2020 by TBoneTX
scatological term removed

[igoyougoduke 1,675]

is there a immigration question here 

[Going through 5,671]

Assuming the immigration portion of the question is "will it cause problems for the AOS later on"---- You cannot be denied solely on the basis of a confidential marriage, so long as the marriage was legal you're good to go on that end. 

 

It's also not a guarantee of a Stokes, but wouldn't be surprised if that was a result....especially if there's not much supporting evidence of a bonafide marriage by the time AOS rolls around.