9th of april BIO HELP

I am seeing countless post on here of people being approved and I am happy for them but what is the deal with my appliaction

I am from belfast northen Ireland I have a british passport and irish I applied to bring my wife here we applied from El salvador non priority and without legal help

I live with my brother in a 3 bedroom house he owns the house and gives consent for her to come and live

I have a full time job that earns £26,657 gross pay I have provieded all the payslips, work contract, work letter and also bank statement

We submited our mirage certificate I got it translated from spanish into english by a certifed UK company (at my own cost)

Also there was no SELT test centers in my wife country (EL salvador) so I had to fly her to Panamá so she could take a test even though her english is already high level as it was a stated requirment (This was done out of my own pocket)

I met my wife in person twice spending 3 month 6 months in total toghther in person in her country

We have submited not over the top evidence for our realtionship but enough like photos, text, mirrage certifcate, call logs etc

She does not need a TB test so that is fine

So all of this and the emails I have been getting is "there is still checks to be done" after nearly 24 weeks of waiting when It states on the UK Website out of country applications could take up to 12 weeks?

I mean my wife is no criminal she has left her country once and that was to go to Panamá to do the SELT test

Can anyone explain what I am missing here? Me and my wife have put everything into this our lives are currently on hold and we are both streesed what am I missing? Is there anything I can do? Any información would be great thank you!!