ASN wait time

Good morning,

We filed a request for an AS Number several weeks ago.  Ticket number is
NCC#2000085127.  Having finally receiving initial response from RIPE late
last week, we were then asked to provide contact details for the ISP that
we had placed in our application. The reason being that RIPE would be
contacting them in their time to confirm that they will accept peering and
allow our PA space.  Presumably this will take another few weeks for them
to verify that indeed our application was accurate and said ISP has agreed
to accept our peering details. As this is urgent, I'm quite concerned
whether or not this is the norm now at RIPE. 

Has this happened to anyone else?  That is, has their ASN application
been needlessly delayed like this?

Thanks,

Willy Calderon