There is zero chance Chantal has a legal marriage certificate if she never posted pics. Didn't she even post pics of her STD test results? She posted pics of herself posing next to a sign at an Obesity Clinic for gods sake. She COULDN'T WAIT to post pics of her crackhead when she was "dating" Nader.
It was illegal for them to marry in Kuwait, but not in Thailand. A quickie marriage in Thailand would have been cheap and legal, Chins could have posted photos, and the marriage would have been legally recognised in Canada.
1A. Because Salah doesn’t have the money or connections to make a wasta happen, he basically went straight to the money
I doubt Salah himself has any wasta connections. Can you imagine any powerful Kuwaiti associating with Salah? A bribe is possible, but Salah is too cheap to pay it when he can just pretend to be married instead. They probably bribed the landlord of the shithole apartment though.
Salah's father is a respectible professor, so he would know some people through the university, but I'd be shocked if he'd help Chantal in any way. He won't even let her in his family house. It sounds like Chins has never even met Salah's father.
If Chantal had met Salah's family, she would have snuck some photos and posted them online during one of her rages. She posted pics of that random "friend" MLM woman she had coffee with once. She'd take a selfie in front of Salah's dad's house and post that at least.
he didn’t spend any money on a dodgy marriage license, but probably told her he did.
That would be my guess. Salah had her sign a piece of paper that he told her was a marriage certificate, then told her he needed a shit ton of money to "wasta" bribe Kuwait into recognizing the marriage. Wasta is a very real thing in Kuwait, but Salah doesn't have access to it.
Nigerian Romance scammers often pretend to be US military members stranded in places like Syria. Then they claim they need constant infusions of money to bribe local governments. Their scam victims don't question that because they imagine you need 5k in cash bribes to do anything simple in a corrupt shithole Arab country. Salah would be well aware of this scamming tactic working on fat western women.