Login problems for me were resolved sometime yesterday afternoon.

As to the verification queue, I dunno, but I only applied about a week ago and they had me verified up to Tier 3 in about 3 days.   I saw another user complaining on Reddit about having applied two weeks ago and was still waiting for verification, so I can only guess that there is a problem with your verification or its not a first-in-first-out structure for account applications....