Wow, as a native-born US citizen, after reading your story I just feel honestly sad and ashamed. Like I seriously want to tell your wife "I'm sorry for the dipshittery you are experiencing from US government bureaucrats."
I mean, here you have a situation where someone does everything right, can't fly back to the US due to Covid, and then is denied her current statues due to being out of the US too long. "Catch-22" wasn't supposed to be a literal instruction manual on how bureaucracies should function.
I mean, here you have a situation where someone does everything right, can't fly back to the US due to Covid, and then is denied her current statues due to being out of the US too long. "Catch-22" wasn't supposed to be a literal instruction manual on how bureaucracies should function.