Just a reality check for you. I applied for a share account on the 22/3/2020, my account has finally been approved and opened as of this morning, 27/4/2020.
Posts to the forum won't speed it up. Emails won't speed it up. I didn't try waiting in a phone queue, but other posters have. All you can do is sit tight, or go to a different provider.
IG's communication is pretty dire if my experience is anything to go by. It takes about a week to get a first reply to an email, might be a little faster for follow-ups. Don't make the mistake of using a mail forwarding email address (can't send, only receive) as your IG account address, that causes no end of issues with them claiming data protection, even though I didn't even ask at any point for anything account confidential. Had to change it to a different address in the end.
I don't feel they accurately deal with emails - the responses to me so far kinda miss the mark and just feel a bit sloppy.
Absolutely, this is what IG needs. Stop telling people that document verification takes around 2 hours when it takes a week. Tell people that applications are queued and tell them the current queue length and processing time of >1 month. The reason why their customer support is so busy and unable to reply promptly is because they are not providing the correct information up front on the website. It's not rocket science.
Oh, and they will want to have additional personal wealth information sent to them by email instead of collecting it during the sign up process - another drag on customer service.
Don't waste your time and get stressed. Either wait or go elsewhere.
If I hadn't send my ID documents to IG at the beginning, I wouldn't have waited the >month time period and just gone elsewhere.
Just for a comparison: I opened up an account with another financial provider in the mean time, not brokerage but it had all the same verification requirements. It took ~2 hours, including human verification of ID document photos and a bit of email communication. Says it all really.