7 business days for status to take hold in NZ - and where the apps updates to show the status. You should be able to use lounge and apply RU after that

6-8 weeks for your cards to show up, really up to 4 weeks before propagation to *A.

It is all done through batch jobs and old technology processes.

Hope you used up your Silver RU , otherwise it is sunk

Forward cabin seats will open up for NZ flights only