In Nigeria, the embassy has been open for over a year.
Covid numbers are low. They UK has worse covid stats but they are ahead.
I think this has to do more with the "culture" at the immigration agencies (USCIS and DOS) that have been allowed to revert to what it used to be by the previous administration and the pandemic.
For instance, POTUS asked for more transparency and what we have now is the total number of application pending at NVC. It does not provide any breakdown.
One has to dig up that info country by country, category by category.
In some countries, the backlog is getting to the same state that resulted in the creation of the K3 visa but this time the backlog is at NVC not USCIS.
That is why I said we should reach out to our senators and congressmen/women and create the awareness needed to clear these up.
Even something like the visa bulletin but for CR1/IR1 would go a long way. Actually processing the pending applications would be best.
FYI the last CR1/IR1 that was issued was DQed about mid December 2020. (from a VJ profile). That was from at least 3 months ago. Since then no one (with updated profile) who DQed in January 2021 has been scheduled for interview.
