[rwmj]

Roughly the same thing happened to me, although it only took 11 months to get the visa. It happened to so many people at the company I work for (IBM / Red Hat) that they eventually gathered together testimonials from everyone and sent them to one of the senators where Red Hat is based in North Carolina, and magically everyone's visa "problem" was resolved within 2 weeks. The root cause is that Trump defunded the relevant sections of the State Department: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/07/28/americas-...