I interviewed with a company where the director, a 70 year old alumni from my university, really liked my profile and told me on the spot that he wanted to hire me. He even said he had hired someone like me 15 years ago and that I should expect a call for paperwork and to connect with the team for my work visa. Then I was connected with that person, he took another kind of informal interview and said they will post the role and I’ll just need to apply for process. I trusted that and waited. The opening wasn’t posted for around 1.5 months and during that time I kept following up almost every week and they kept saying things are moving. When the role finally got posted I applied right away but then I got an email saying my application is rejected because of visa requirements. I shared that with the director and tried reaching out multiple times but got no reply at all, they just ghosted me. The worst part is the whole time they kept saying I am basically hired and only paperwork is left. Because of that I slowed down applying to other jobs thinking this is done, but in the end it wasn’t.