NVC Case documentarily qualified awaiting visa interview but I want to get married

Fpm800

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I have been with my fiance for close to 15 years but never got married since my mother who's currently a us permanent resident filed for me to become a PR. I never got married as that would disqualify me for PR based on the fact that I am older than 21 or at least make the wait more than 20 years. After waiting more than 13 years my case was sent to the NVC.
My case has been considered documentarily qualified after all required documents have been reviewed. I am now waiting on a visa interview date but who knows when that will happen. As she is still a PR, am I considered an immediate relative? Or does she have to be an us citizen for me to be considered a immediate relative? I ask this as that the difference is that immediate relative visa interview are currently processing cases who was documentarily qualified on October 2021 but "Most Family Preference and Employment cases scheduled for interview were documentarily qualified in October 2019". My case was documentarily quality ion November 2021. I am not sure if I fall under the immediate relative group or the group that waiting for the 2019 batch.
If I fall under the 2019 group, I don't think I can wait to get married that much longer for personal and financial reasons. If I do end up getting married before my visa interview date, would that change my family sponsored preference from F2B to F3? I ask this as the F2B category for my birth country is past my priority date but the F3 category is 8 years before my priority date and hasn't moved in years. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
 
You're not an immediate relative. Immediate relative means the parent of a US citizen who is at least 21 years old, the spouse of a US citizen, or the child of a US citizen (for purposes of US immigration, "child" means under 21 and unmarried.)

If you do get married before your F2B visa is issued, you will be ineligible for the visa because you will no longer be the "unmarried son or daughter of a permanent resident". You won't be eligible for an F3 visa either, because F3 is for "married sons and daughters of US citizens" and your mother is not a US citizen. So you will just end up not getting the visa. If you get married after your F2B visa is issued but before you enter the US, then you won't be allowed to enter the US on that visa.
 
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