The pandemic really messed a bunch of stuff up for a lot people in this situation. I don't think it's malicious, or even incompetence. They just had to scale

The pandemic really messed a bunch of stuff up for a lot people in this situation. I don't think it's malicious, or even incompetence. They just had to scale back staff dramatically at foreign embassies. And isn't UK still having virus problems? In any case, he's certainly not "banned." Hopefully he'll be able to get a visa appointment sometime soon.