At the moment you will see as a publisher that your channel is verified. It may take a (very) long time however before you actually see it as verified in your browser.
I read somewhere that it may take up to 48 hours (give or take) before it actually shows up as verified. As I understood correctly, this is because at that interval the list of sites is updated. In a next release this would have been reduced to 24 hours…
But why not make it a setting where you can manually refresh the list. This would help the publisher to see if everything worked out fine and people with an updated list (be it 24 or 48 hours) would eventually see that as well.