Why there is a wall at all
A released report card goes home with a learner, and an emailed one reaches a child's inbox. Verification stands in front of what leaves your account. Before you are verified you can build a class, import a roster, encode scores, compute grades and preview cards, each stamped PREVIEW — NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION. Releasing cards, storing LRNs and inviting other teachers wait until you are verified.
The two lanes
Instant. An address inside deped.gov.ph verifies the moment you prove the mailbox. So does an address on an .edu.ph domain that still resolves and still accepts mail. The match is on the domain's labels, not on how the text happens to end, so a lookalike like notdeped.gov.ph earns nothing.
A person reads it. Everything else — Gmail, Yahoo, a private school's own .com — goes to a queue. So does an .edu.ph domain that no longer resolves, has no mail server, or did not answer in time, and any address at a throwaway mail service.
While you wait
Open Verification to see where your request stands. We work Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, and we cannot promise how long it takes. If we need one more thing, we email you asking for a school ID, an appointment paper or a service record, and you can reply with a photo. When it is approved, your account is a Free account: it releases real report cards you print, keeps LRNs, and can invite other teachers. Take a license at your school — one of its free ones, one PEAC covers, or one you pay for — and it is Full, with the full allowance. Everything you built meanwhile stays exactly as it is.
What each account can do
Unverified, Free and Full differ in more than the numbers. The table in Your license: free, paid, or covered by PEAC lists every line for all three, and it follows what staff set, so it is always today's. Hit a limit and the message names what is missing in your case, whether that is verification, naming your school, or a license to pay for.
The fastest way through
If you also hold a school address, do not wait in the queue. Settings → Add a school email. A trusted domain verifies the whole account immediately and closes the open request for you.