Marriage before DV interview, please help!

[fthnm2005]

Dear All:

I tried to look for similar question in the forum, but no luck so far.
I have the following question: I have a visa interview scheduled for March 29th, 2010. I applied as a SINGLE applicant while I was student in the U.S. and i have been working in the U.S. for over a year and I am still employed in the US. I am pretty confident that I will most probably be granted a DV if I go there as a single applicant. Now, I came back to my country and am waiting and preparign for the DV interview.

However, recently, I got engaged here at my home country and now I can not figure it out whether I and my fiancé should obtain a marriage sertificate before the interview and bring my wife along for the interview, or would this be too risky and would comprimise my own green card process given the short period of time left and probably my wife will have to retain her last name (to avoid passport renewal and other headaches), which may cause suspicion in consul's mind.

please advise...
thanks in advacne!

[Triple Citizen]

Get married before your DV interview.

However, recently, I got engaged here at my home country and now I can not figure it out whether I and my fiancé should obtain a marriage sertificate before the interview and bring my wife along for the interview, or would this be too risky and would comprimise my own green card process given the short period of time left and probably my wife will have to retain her last name (to avoid passport renewal and other headaches), which may cause suspicion in consul's mind.

[Jackolantern]

Get married before your DV interview.

Yep. Because if you don't get married before the case is approved, your future spouse will have to wait some 5 years to get a GC.

[LucyMO]

however, if you are from a high-risk country - that is, a country where a lot of fake DV marriages take place in order to obtain immigrant benefits - you need to be ready for a Stokes interview at the consulate. If you fail it, both of you will earn a life-time ban on entering the US. You - for smuggling an illegal alien, and your spouse - for providing false information in order to obtain immigration benefits. It has happened before, even for real marriages (the wife was pregnant at the time of the interview).

P.S. There is a DV subforum on this forum. You will benefit greatly if you spend some time there reading up.