Injured spouse 8379 tax refund

I wanted to know if anyone has experience the same or similar situation, I am going through.

I currently owe a few years back taxes, and it was before I got married to my wife last year in mid January.

We filed married/jointly and was going to let it go towards my back taxes but she was laid off right after Christmas and it really put an impact on us financially.

When filing taxes, they suggested we file injured spouse, and it would help protect her part and we would get some back to help us get through. I also have been wanting to take care /have been taking care of this on my own because she was not a part of this problem.

It will be 11 weeks this coming Monday and we still have no update on our transcript, but I have talked to the IRS and they said it was assign to somebody.
Some people said that this form works and some have been saying different things. I was just hoping that we had a shot of getting it back to take care and get back on track.