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The last few years have been HELL on visa and green card applicants, OP.

There are hundreds of thousands of families all over the world who are currently separated because USCIS is taking way too long. Reasons for this are threefold:
1. Trump paved the way by defunding USCIS while in office.
2. Then the pandemic hit, and USCIS, operating on nothing bu fume, was forced into closing its offices. Some people worked from home, but visas and green card processing times started taking much longer.
3. Biden is not doing much to help USCIS, since it actually suits him fine to employ Americans first, and people like your son are not his administration's priority.

We are currently filing for a green card, after more than a decade on a series of visas, and our last visa filing this summer/fall was rough. We were told to expect a wait of THREE HUNDRED DAYS in our home country for the visa interview (which is merely a rubber-stamping of our already approved application, in our case). Luckily we managed to get an expedited appointment, but we had to leave our home in the US and pull our kids from school so we could stay in our home country for an indeterminate amount of time. Not knowing how long we would have to be away was incredibly stressful on our preparations for our departure. How do you plan for house and pets when you don't know when you'll return?
Anyway, it was a nightmare I wouldn't wish on anyone.

My oldest is applying to unis abroad, and if we're barred from leaving the US because our application is still in limbo, we will not be able to accompany him or go to him if he has any sort of problem. That's another scary thought.

Immigration lawyers have sought clarification from the US government, and indeed a group of lawyers filed suit against the Federal government on behalf of their clients stuck in never-ending visa and green card processes, to no avail. 
We are just not on their radar right now.

Best of luck.

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Where are you getting that? We love living here. My children are American. But I'm a realist and I recognize that visas and green card processing are a category of government services that has been extremely impacted during the pandemic, and were never well funded to start with. Trump had openly xenophobic views and it made sense he didn't want to support that department, but Biden, despite being a Democrat, isn't about to be accused of giving jobs to foreigners - it's a bit like Obama quietly deporting lots of people south of the Border while in office.

I agree with the posters who said that USCIS procedures are antiquated. The interview requirement, for example, could have been waived much sooner than it was, for certain visa categories. We were among the last to be forced to leave the US, wait in our home country for a lengthy period of time, and get a ONE minute interview with a consular officer: what an upheaval of our lives for a mere show that they interviewed us! Now I understand this requirement is waived because they just couldn't go on like this. I'm sure there are many other things they could cut. Our last visa application was more than 5 inches thick, our green card file is even more incredibly detailed... at some point, they have to recognize when they've vetted a candidate enough, and just approve them already.
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