HabibAliShah

Did you receive a notification from the Embassy before submitting it?  The Embassy usually contacts applicants to update and resubmit the DS-260 when they are ready to continue processing the case. ( For instance if a case is in  AP for more than one year and finally they are ready to proceed with your case, they will ask u to update and submit the DS-260 and if another interview, you will have to come with updated document...)

We were given visa validity upto 21st January because my fathers passport was about to expire on April. So due to law you should travel before 2 months of your passport expiry. So the translator told us that take your fathers passport and update it, once done you will have extended visa validity date upto 6th of april 2020. So we did this back in December 20, 2019. We sent the passport through acceptable courier service. Upto now I receied an email that embassies are closed due to Trumps Travel ban. So, some days before I saw news Which stated that travel ban has now extended upto 31 March 2021.

Nothing you can do right now. Due to COVID-19 and the president proclamation, things will not be back to normal until next year.

You seem to be on top of it, just a question of waiting for the process to be complete.

Same happened in my case but it is new outlook of AP

yeah JFH is right regarding this message.They have changed the outlook of the message from AP to refused but still under AP as the text in the box says
 

This is normal. Read the full message on CEAC. You are still in AP. This week they changed the wording from “administrative processing” to
“refused” for everyone in AP. It’s completely normal.