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1. Since December 2021. Started talking more since March 2022. Met online through playing video games. 2. 111 days over the past 4 months. Longest interval is 91 days.

Context: I-129F filed recently, NOA1 2023-01-27. Fiancee and I (the USC) have been engaged since November, only started dating in October 2022 after meeting in person for the first time while she was visiting the states (but knew each other as friends online for years beforehand). Held off on filing I129F until Jan this year so we could accumulate evidence of us spending time together in the US and her home country (total 3 months). We thought about just getting married right away in my home state but opted not to because we felt that the timeline of us going from meeting in-person to marriage would have been a red flag and potentially made our lives harder with having to prove everything. However, now I'm looking at timelines and seeing that CR1 is faster and cheaper of a route and I feel like I made an error with going towards the wrong pathway. Am I correct in this assumption, or would the higher bar of proving legitimate marriage be higher than proving legitimate relationship and intent to marry have been too much of a hurdle?

What OP’s wife likely believed is that the short time both of them were together would have been a potential red flag to USCIS adjudicators. that concern is what drove me and my fiancée towards the K-1 pathway versus getting married and doing CR-1. We dated IRL for less than a month while she was visiting the US before we proposed to each other and just knew each other as video game buddies beforehand. We simply thought the circumstances and the timeline would have raised too many eyebrows

As a late Jan 2023 filer, I hope that things go quickly, but not too quickly haha. My fiancee has a surgery to correct some issues this August (long waiting times for a specialist) and having the K1 interview emerge anytime before this Christmas will definitely throw a monkey wrench into things with that and our careers.