US Immigration from Morocco

Hi all,

I've been reading a bunch of posts in the forums since returning to the US, and I'm concerned about our chances for approval, mostly due to us having a traditional engagement ceremony, including an exchanging of rings.

Some background:

-I'm female American (25) and he's male Moroccan (21), no prior marriages nor children, etc. for either of us.

-We met initially in mid-2019 when I visited Morocco, kept nearly daily contact, began romantically seeing each other late 2020, and got engaged during my visit to Morocco last month.

-I am not muslim (more agnostic) while he is muslim. We're both fine with this as long as our children are muslim, inshaallah. I'm okay deferring to his preference since he is more religious.

-I just visited him and his family for 3 weeks in Morocco, but both of my visits to Morocco are within the 2 year period for filing.

-He is proficient in English as that is our main language of communication, and I know some elementary Arabic / Darija.

-I also keep in frequent contact with his brothers as they consider me part of their family. I also talk to his parents, but they don't know any English, so our conversations are less frequent.

-We do have a shorter engagement period (which is I know is a bit of a yellow/red flag), but we are both people who exercise caution with those we date and don't want to 'waste' our time on a superficial relationship.

-He has never traveled to the US / outside of Morocco

We have plenty of evidence as far as photos, chat logs, etc. are concerned, but I am now anxious because I have seen so many threads warning against having an engagement party before filing. It was a simple ceremony, lasting less than 30 minutes. We exchanged rings, fed each other a date and milk, kissed each other on the forehead, and held hands in front of his family. After that, we took pictures and had a homemade lunch. We wore traditional Moroccan clothing for the ceremony that his mother ordered in advance of my arrival. They don't match exactly, but it's obvious that we are together.

There is the possibility that I could not include the photos in my file, but we exchanged the photos over whatsapp, and I don't want to lie if we get an interview and they ask if we had an engagement party. Plus, if they ask if we had an engagement party, we say yes but didn't include any photos, wouldn't that also be suspicious? I'm trying really hard to get all of our documentation together, but it feels so sad that something used to celebrate our love with his family could cause us denial.

Thanks in advance

hello all.

it was a long day, anyway we have our interview at 10 am, to get there you need an 1:30 h, so we went so early 740 a.m, 20 mile away from our destination, two 18 wheelers accident make us stuck in the long bridge form 8:40 till 12:30 we been directed to drive the other way to get out from the interstate found another 2 accident in the highway hahahahah bad day, get to the office around 2h30 pm, the lady who do the check-in contact the officer to see if they can interview us, she said they don,t have enough time for us, they tell us to write a letter explaining why we didn't show up in time,

so anybody been in the same situation?

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