Facebook – How long does Facebook take to verify a page

Starting from the beginning, at the Facebook sign up page, there is the following

Facebook requires all users to provide their real date of birth to encourage authenticity and provide only age-appropriate access to content. You will be able to hide this information from your profile if you wish, and its use is governed by the Facebook Privacy Policy.

This takes care of the birthday issue.

For the nickname, there is the following,

Please note that Facebook account names must adhere to the following authenticity standards: Your full first and last name must be listed. Initials cannot stand in place of your full name. Nicknames can be listed if they are a variation of your first or last name, but only in the format "First Name ‘Nickname’ Lastname."

Under Facebook Terms, here is what you need to be aware of

Registration and Account Security

Facebook users provide their real names and information, and we need your help to keep it that way. Here are some commitments you make to us relating to registering and maintaining the security of your account:

• You will not provide any false personal information on Facebook, or create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission.
• You will not create more than one personal profile.
• If we disable your account, you will not create another one without our permission.
• You will keep your contact information accurate and up-to-date.

Knowing this and

• the assumption that disabling accounts are automated but appeals are manual
• the assumption that not entering your contact information accurately lead to this
• the assumption there are many, many, many appeals per day

9 days to even two weeks seems reasonable. Someone I knew was banned but appealed, it took a very long while but a well worded polite email plus some patience led to a renewal. This is not going to work for everyone obviously.

In your case, as noted on this appeal page for deactivated accounts (though not new accounts, I think the same process applies)

"Note that writing in and submitting your ID multiple times will not result in a faster response. Once you submit your initial request, it is placed in a queue and responded to accordingly. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause."

_{There still is information that we need from you to decipher the information further, you said that it is a new account, yet you needed to confirm with a license. This sounds like a re-activation to me. It would be best if you could walk us through your entire process from sign up to roadblock with all relevant links and email correspondences that Facebook sent (REMOVE ALL PERSONAL INFORMATION)}

Without the brand name and power that the big-hitters like Ford, CNN, NBA etc have, I imagine that you won't be able to create a Page username less than 5 characters.

I would think that because these types of companies are so well known Facebook has given them special dispensation with regards to the rules and regulations on creating usernames for pages.

As such there doesn't seem to an official route via the Facebook site to apply for a page with a username less than 5 characters. Probably because it would no doubt be inundated with requests. I should think the bigger global companies have contact Facebook directly via their PR office or similar.

This of course, is only my opinion and would only be answered 100% correctly by a member of staff from Facebook.