  In this paper, we investigate the effect of a wide binary companion of the
lens on the astrometric behavior of Galactic gravitational microlensing events
and compare it to the effect on the photometric behavior. We find that the wide
binary companion of the lens can affect the centroid motion of images
substantially even if the corresponding light curve appears to be the one of a
standard single point-mass lens event. The relatively significant effect of the
wide binary lens on the astrometric lensing behavior, on one side, calls for
careful consideration of the lens binarity in analyzing the future astrometric
lensing data. On the other side, larger astrometric effect of the companion
makes astrometric lensing an efficient method to detect binary lenses over a
broad range of separations.
