Apple Developer Enrollment Issues

I enrolled for the Apple Developer Program last Thursday (Feb 12) - no status update apart from a message I've seen others have thus processed payment:

Purchase your membership. To continue your enrollment, complete your purchase now Your purchase may take up to 48 hours to process.

I've reached out to support twice now, no luck. Anything that worked for someone in the same boat? I have a test group planned and would need to apply my app for testflight as soon as possible to leave some headroom.

Apple Developer Enrollment Issues
 
 
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