If you call the VA Customer Service line and explain, they can manually process SCs to allow you to benefit from lounge access - or, failing that, they may give you one time lounge passes that would expire the day after your travel. You will also discover that the SCs will post one day and you won't be upgraded to gold until the next day at least and it can take even longer for it to show up at check in. You may need to be patient with the VA staff and suggest they go one step deeper into your booking to verify your status (note that I have no idea what it actually means, just that it was what I was told to say).