from the IRS website:
The IRS is opening mail within normal timeframes and all paper and electronic individual refund returns received prior to April 2021 have been processed if the return had no errors or did not require further review.
As of April 29, 2022, we had 9.6 million unprocessed individual returns which include returns received before 2022, and new tax year 2021 returns. Of these, 2.9 million returns require error correction or other special handling, and 6.7 million are paper returns waiting to be reviewed and processed.
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-operations-during-covid-19-mission-critical-functions-continue#coll...
It would not suprise me if it takes six months for the IRS to reduce the backlog on paper returns.
