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I filed myself. I did physically see him a year before the marriage, but also, no one questioned it either. 
 
Thank you. 

CR-1 Visa Approved!  Zoom Ceremony.
 
My husband and I married through Utah Online marriage ceremony in September 2020. I visited him in Costa Rica in October 2020 and filed for the CR-1. Our I-130 was approved January 29, 2021. We were DQ in the NVC on February 16, 2021 and received our interview date on February 24th.
 
My husband passed his interview this morning and now we await his passport and POE in the coming weeks.

CR-1 Visa Approved!  Zoom Ceremony.
 
My husband and I married through Utah Online marriage ceremony in September 2020. I visited him in Costa Rica in October 2020 and filed for the CR-1. Our I-130 was approved January 29, 2021. We were DQ in the NVC on February 16, 2021 and received our interview date on February 24th.
 
My husband passed his interview this morning and now we await his passport and POE in the coming weeks.

CR-1 Visa Approved!  Zoom Ceremony.
 
My husband and I married through Utah Online marriage ceremony in September 2020. I visited him in Costa Rica in October 2020 and filed for the CR-1. Our I-130 was approved January 29, 2021. We were DQ in the NVC on February 16, 2021 and received our interview date on February 24th.
 
My husband passed his interview this morning and now we await his passport and POE in the coming weeks.

Thank you! 

I am in Louisiana, neither of us were present in Utah, nor together, nor with the officiant physically. The marriage certificate and the marriage itself is legally considered to have occured in Utah. 

When they asked where he was married, he answered that it was online due to COVID and explained to the officer . I had been worried about answering this way, but he says the officer was just curious about it, not judgmental and did not have any follow up questions to the answer. 

If you or anyone else has further questions, please ask! That's why I am sharing this, because I don't know of any of successes with online marriage yet!

CR-1 Visa Approved!  Zoom Ceremony.
 
My husband and I married through Utah Online marriage ceremony in September 2020. I visited him in Costa Rica in October 2020 and filed for the CR-1. Our I-130 was approved January 29, 2021. We were DQ in the NVC on February 16, 2021 and received our interview date on February 24th.
 
My husband passed his interview this morning and now we await his passport and POE in the coming weeks.

CR-1 Visa Approved!  Zoom Ceremony.
 
My husband and I married through Utah Online marriage ceremony in September 2020. I visited him in Costa Rica in October 2020 and filed for the CR-1. Our I-130 was approved January 29, 2021. We were DQ in the NVC on February 16, 2021 and received our interview date on February 24th.
 
My husband passed his interview this morning and now we await his passport and POE in the coming weeks.

That's not entirely accurate. I met him a year before we married. I've seen him in person a total of twice for three weeks each time. In regards to the post you made about your own spousal visa, good luck, but PLEASE make sure you DO NOT file the CR-1 application (the I-130) UNTIL AFTER you have met with him. As with myself, I did not file until I was with him physically for two weeks after marrying online. 

They should pin your post from last November somewhere as it was very detailed and informative on the topic.
 
Ironically at that time I very carefully considered your post as an alternative to the plans my Filipina wife and I had made to marry IN Costa Rica as OUR solution to COVID travel bans.  We still went the Costa Rica marriage route and don't regret it at all but if we hadn't already had our plans made when I saw your post we may well have gone that route instead.  We really had a great time in Costa Rica though.  You were spot on about the lawyer fee in Costa Rica though that was no big deal to us.  It took us just a month which included Christmas and New Years  to get our Costa Rica marriage certificate issued issued Marriage certificate issued.  Apostille in Costa Rica turned into a time consuming thing but that isn't needed for the USCIS, we just needed the Apostille for Philippines government. I certainly don't see our case advancing anywhere near as fast as yours.

CR-1 Visa Approved!  Zoom Ceremony.
 
My husband and I married through Utah Online marriage ceremony in September 2020. I visited him in Costa Rica in October 2020 and filed for the CR-1. Our I-130 was approved January 29, 2021. We were DQ in the NVC on February 16, 2021 and received our interview date on February 24th.
 
My husband passed his interview this morning and now we await his passport and POE in the coming weeks.

I originally contemplated using WebWed to get married but after researching extensively, it was much easier, more straightforward, and 90% cheaper to go directly through the Utah Couty Clerk. It's the same jurisdiction WebWed uses and you can do it by yourself. YES, it is completely legal and legitimately recognized across the US and therefore anywhere in the world that registers marriages that occur in the US. NO, your marriage certificate will NOT mention anything about online and will look like any regular marriage certificate. YES, you still have to be in person at some point following the marriage to meet the consummation requirements of USCIS, but that doesn't sound like a problem for you. Don't feel like you're required to explain to all of these people here why you've personally decided that getting married online through the US (Utah). It sounds like you have thought it over and it fits your situation.

Here are instructions based on what I did in September: 
 
Apply for marriage license here :
http://www.utahcounty.gov/Dept/ClerkAud/Marriage.html
  You'll need you Driver's License for the US citizen and a government ID or Passport for the foreigner as well as each a selfie that is clear, similar to passport photos.
Please carefully read the instructions before applying. You will need to put the county clerk's address as the mailing address for the non citizen during this part.
You'll complete the application and pay $70 or $50 if you complete the free Marriage Counseling they offer.
You'll get emailed the marriage license, and if you followed the instructions on the site which tells you to put the Utah County clerk's office as the mailing address for the foreigner , you will then forward the marriage license email back to them asking them to correct the address to the foreigner's actual address. Then you'll receive an updated marriage license.
Once you have the license, you go here :
http://www.utahcounty.gov/Dept/ClerkAud/MarrCeremony.html
  You will schedule the ceremony as web conference. You'll need the marriage license number, the link on the email they sent you, and the names of two witnesses that will appear for the ceremony. You will get a link you can send to as many friends and family as you want to join the Zoom meeting during the ceremony.
24 hours before your ceremony, you'll get a reminder email with a portal to pay the ceremony fee of $35.
During the ceremony, the clerk will send your marriage license in and within 5 minutes, you'll receive an email with a digital certified marriage certificate that you can use for name changes or any other official business in the USA. You'll have a paper copy mailed to the citizen's address.
Additionally, for registering my marriage in the other country, i went and ordered two more paper copies while i was at it so i can mail one back to Utah to get an apostille.
Edit to add what my digital certificate looks like :
https://imgur.com/a/IYAqpma

That's not entirely accurate. I met him a year before we married. I've seen him in person a total of twice for three weeks each time. In regards to the post you made about your own spousal visa, good luck, but PLEASE make sure you DO NOT file the CR-1 application (the I-130) UNTIL AFTER you have met with him. As with myself, I did not file until I was with him physically for two weeks after marrying online. 

I was only able to get into his country through a spouse exception as they were not allowing anyone from my state regardless of if I spent time somewhere else for 14 days or more at the time. There was no timeline at that time on how long that ban would last, and even still the process to get married in his country and have the certificate in hand to apply for the CR-1 was three months or more even if I could have gotten in to get married there. And on top of that, you need a lawyer for the ceremony, even without an actual wedding, and that would have been $400 more and I still would have needed to pay for the plane ride. The cheapest, fastest, and only certain route to start the CR-1 was to get married online. 

As far as I am aware, your marriage being registered in your country has zero association with NVC or US visa process. 

CR-1 Visa Approved!  Zoom Ceremony.
 
My husband and I married through Utah Online marriage ceremony in September 2020. I visited him in Costa Rica in October 2020 and filed for the CR-1. Our I-130 was approved January 29, 2021. We were DQ in the NVC on February 16, 2021 and received our interview date on February 24th.
 
My husband passed his interview this morning and now we await his passport and POE in the coming weeks.

That's not entirely accurate. I met him a year before we married. I've seen him in person a total of twice for three weeks each time. In regards to the post you made about your own spousal visa, good luck, but PLEASE make sure you DO NOT file the CR-1 application (the I-130) UNTIL AFTER you have met with him. As with myself, I did not file until I was with him physically for two weeks after marrying online. 

I was only able to get into his country through a spouse exception as they were not allowing anyone from my state regardless of if I spent time somewhere else for 14 days or more at the time. There was no timeline at that time on how long that ban would last, and even still the process to get married in his country and have the certificate in hand to apply for the CR-1 was three months or more even if I could have gotten in to get married there. And on top of that, you need a lawyer for the ceremony, even without an actual wedding, and that would have been $400 more and I still would have needed to pay for the plane ride. The cheapest, fastest, and only certain route to start the CR-1 was to get married online. 

That's not entirely accurate. I met him a year before we married. I've seen him in person a total of twice for three weeks each time. In regards to the post you made about your own spousal visa, good luck, but PLEASE make sure you DO NOT file the CR-1 application (the I-130) UNTIL AFTER you have met with him. As with myself, I did not file until I was with him physically for two weeks after marrying online. 

CR-1 Visa Approved!  Zoom Ceremony.
 
My husband and I married through Utah Online marriage ceremony in September 2020. I visited him in Costa Rica in October 2020 and filed for the CR-1. Our I-130 was approved January 29, 2021. We were DQ in the NVC on February 16, 2021 and received our interview date on February 24th.
 
My husband passed his interview this morning and now we await his passport and POE in the coming weeks.

Thank you! 

I am in Louisiana, neither of us were present in Utah, nor together, nor with the officiant physically. The marriage certificate and the marriage itself is legally considered to have occured in Utah. 

When they asked where he was married, he answered that it was online due to COVID and explained to the officer . I had been worried about answering this way, but he says the officer was just curious about it, not judgmental and did not have any follow up questions to the answer. 

If you or anyone else has further questions, please ask! That's why I am sharing this, because I don't know of any of successes with online marriage yet!

CR-1 Visa Approved!  Zoom Ceremony.
 
My husband and I married through Utah Online marriage ceremony in September 2020. I visited him in Costa Rica in October 2020 and filed for the CR-1. Our I-130 was approved January 29, 2021. We were DQ in the NVC on February 16, 2021 and received our interview date on February 24th.
 
My husband passed his interview this morning and now we await his passport and POE in the coming weeks.

No, I didn't expedite at any point. 

CR-1 Visa Approved!  Zoom Ceremony.
 
My husband and I married through Utah Online marriage ceremony in September 2020. I visited him in Costa Rica in October 2020 and filed for the CR-1. Our I-130 was approved January 29, 2021. We were DQ in the NVC on February 16, 2021 and received our interview date on February 24th.
 
My husband passed his interview this morning and now we await his passport and POE in the coming weeks.

Some of the questions asked that he remembers:

What is your full name?
Are you married?
Have you ever been in the military?
Have you lived in any other countries?
Have you gone to the US in the past?
When did you get married? (Asked twice during the interview)
Where were you married?
Who does your spouse live with?
How did you meet your spouse?
How did the relationship evolve?

CR-1 Visa Approved!  Zoom Ceremony.
 
My husband and I married through Utah Online marriage ceremony in September 2020. I visited him in Costa Rica in October 2020 and filed for the CR-1. Our I-130 was approved January 29, 2021. We were DQ in the NVC on February 16, 2021 and received our interview date on February 24th.
 
My husband passed his interview this morning and now we await his passport and POE in the coming weeks.