As long as you stick to the form and procedure in place things will run smoothly and you'll be fine.
If you start making exceptions people higher up will have to get involved to authorize the exception, that will take a lot of time because they really won't want to do that without making sure they're not setting themselves up for a problem.
OP was doing something not 100% on the up-and-up imho and that is the prime cause of all this trouble.
All that's necessary is verifying that the individual in question is an suitable officer of the corporation.
As long as you stick to the form and procedure in place things will run smoothly and you'll be fine.
Unless Apple decides otherwise. We've had payments come in months late for no apparent reason, and didn't see resolution until Apple received a spate of bad press.
The 'for no apparent reason' sort of proves that already. So if you had would you blame apple ?
If Apple put up their usual bureaucratic wall, ignored our requests, or required multi-week/month turnaround times to resolve the issue -- then yes, I would blame Apple.
As long as you stick to the form and procedure in place things will run smoothly and you'll be fine.
If you start making exceptions people higher up will have to get involved to authorize the exception, that will take a lot of time because they really won't want to do that without making sure they're not setting themselves up for a problem.
OP was doing something not 100% on the up-and-up imho and that is the prime cause of all this trouble.