The new transaction has been pending for ~30 minutes with no evidence of anything happening.
I'm wondering if these things may be factors:
1) I uploaded a drivers license to circle but they seem to have not completed my verifications process
2) I did not click the enable "Dynamic fees" button on electrum. I'm wondering if it didn't take a fee because I did not select this. I have V. 2.6.4
Please let me know if I'm missing something here.
If you're saying that electrum shows it as pending it means the transaction is waiting for confirmation from the bitcoin network. It might take some time to confirm if you're using the default fee of 0.0005
BTC/KB. It have nothing to do with circle in that case.
Edit:
https://bitcoinfees.21.co/ estimates that a 50 satoshi per byte, that's around 0.0005
BTC/KB, transaction may take up to an hour to confirm.