Update. My spouse is interviewing from Sydney on Oct 14th. She got an email on August 27th that says she needs to mail in all the documents on the checklist 30 days before her interview, which means Sept 13th or so. Nowhere on the website did it mention this, so this must be new? We send in all the required documents, but today she receives an email saying that her Australian Police Check needs to have her fingerprints included too. Again, nowhere on the websites did it mention about needing fingerprints. Even a previous DV winner from 2 years ago didn't need the fingerprint check, just name only. Maybe different for my spouse, or maybe it's new?
Anyways, she's working on her fingerprints, but they say it takes approximately 15-30 days for the Police Check application that includes fingerprints to be processed. The email today says she has 5 days to get this in. This does not give her enough time at all.
Looks like the only thing she can do is ask them to reschedule the interview, or, which i doubt, ask for an extension.