I guess i dont see the point of going through all that trouble and expense of getting married in another country and even taking the risk of being found out if you arent going to live as a married couple in the US anyway. Seems stupidly pointless. Because if you ever ARE found out, if someone who knows gets mad at you one day, say, and reports you, the financial and legal consequences will be astronomical. The IRS takes a very very dim view of tax evasion and fraud. We're talking thousands to hundreds of thousand of dollars in fines and back taxes and likely jail time too. Is it really worth the risk? Just have a party and say some vows to eachother, a wedding of the heart without it needing to be a legal thing since you arent going to 'be married' anyhow. Youll be living a lie and breaking the law and in the long run that never works out well. What if your marriage certificate in tge other country is put on a computer. then one day a background check for a job or renewed passport or sonthing brings up your marriage. in fact, if the marriage is recorded in a computer data base somewhere the IRS is almost sure to run across it eventually, even if its not until they are sesrching for proof to build their case against you. Then your kids will end up in the foster system or being raised by relatives.

maybe

It is possible to get away with not reporting and registering a marriage in a foreign country. However, this is not morally upright since the duty of a patriotic citizen is to pay taxes.

um I think that may be illegal