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Questions about US immigration visas (sensitive situation)

I am posting on behalf of a vulnerable person, and the situation is as below:

"Between 2016 – 2018, I was in US on a student visa (F1) doing my masters where I met my partner and got married without my family’s approval or knowing. I come from a strict religious family that wouldn’t approve of such union even though I’m close to 30 years old.

After graduation I returned to my country and to my family, while my immigration visa (through my spouse) was being processed. It has now been approved and I'm arranging to move to the US I need to tell my family about the news without telling them it’s a marriage based visa, so what is a believable immigration visa I could say I have been granted? I tried to look at the types of US immigration visas and there are many types with many loopholes and I'm not sure which one of them could work?

For example, if I say I won a diversity visa, from my understanding its only applicable if I applied through the lottery, right?

How about asylum or refugee visa? Could I say I applied for a change of status while I was on the F1, and it was being processed while I was away?

Has anyone went through similar scenario? I really hope that someone out there can help me as I’m really scared for my life and what my family could do even though what I’m doing isn’t wrong, it’s just culturally forbidden."

Any answers or advice would be appreciated, thank you in advance.

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