South America.

Why they want B1 in English? Good question. Why they didn't ask for that in any documents and/or while the papers were being submitted? Another good question.

I feel like I'm trapped in Kafka's The Castle story.

With the amount of remote work available pos-covid, I don't think I have the energy to appeal any of this. I hope this is not the experience for most IT workers that want to work in Germany.