Hello!
Thank you for your response. So, we actually submitted everything with our initial DS-260 - no holding back or delaying on purpose. The civil document was then submitted by our attorney again in August (22), and we’ve been waiting ever since. The document does say ‘submitted’.
Our case reached the NVC in October of 2021. I submitted the document again under my name just to be sure, but I believe you’re correct - we’re probably coming around to being reviewed again (I hope).
DS-260 was actually submitted May 2022 (had to dig through my email to check). I was wrong, I thought we had submitted it last year.