You know what I just wish you a merry Christmas, If you are lucky you might get your account probably 3 months after you've sent an email with your proof of verification but if not then that might take you more than 5 months or years.
If the automated system is implemented, it will not take longer time like now and as per hiriousandco, we can expect it by the end of this year which is almost ended. Therefore, we can expect it sooner.
You should probably just wait and hope that theymos implements the automatic recovery tool which he said should be ready by the end of the year, because your account just realistically isn't going to be recovered otherwise unless cyrus mysteriously starts to restore them or more staff are given access to do so.