Filing for AOS while living apart, will be living together before interview

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Me (USC) and my fiancé are planning to get married in the coming weeks, filing for AOS and AP concurrently. We scheduled our religious ceremony for May 2, and family members on both sides bought tickets and made travel plans. I am 23 and this process has been a steep learning curve for both of us, and we realized after arranging all this that she needs AP to safely leave the country and return while waiting for AOS. She has to return to her country for her final semester of university from sept-dec of this year, and getting AP on that timeline seems unlikely. Our plan is to get civilly married now so that we have enough time to get AP so she can finish school. The problem is, we have signed a lease starting in May, and it would be extremely difficult to find housing in our university town from March-May, and to get out of our contracts so suddenly. Additionally, her family would not be able to attend our wedding if we moved it to March, and as our religious ceremony is far more significant for our families, it’s a priority for them to be there. For those 2 reasons, we will live separately from March-May. I understand this raises red flags, but can we feel confident because our relationship is real?

At the time of filing, we can provide the lease beginning in May, as well as joint credit card, bank, insurance, and other accounts. We can provide affidavits from family, friends, religious leaders, etc. and we WILL be living together at the time of the interview, probably our secon apartment together
I will be going with her to Korea for those months, and we can provide proof of trips taken to visit family, vacations we took with each other, as well as photos and a timeline of our relationship.