sometimes it does take longer, specially if its a government.

and one more thing just recently it was on the news that they wanted those non-skilled workers in the government should be taken up by locals, now if your position falls on that category, maybe, just maybe they are still trying to justify the reason to hire you.

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, tolerant of the weak. Someday you will have been all of these."