Basically, since around July/August. As long as you were connected, you’d continue receiving Rewards payments to Uphold/Gemini. But once something happened that you’d get disconnected, you wouldn’t be able to link to Gemini or Uphold again until they add support to the region again. At which point payments would only go to your browser, as if you’re Unverified. (since you now would be)
Two different things. Brave supports it in terms of participating in Rewards and earning BAT, but not support in terms of being able to connect to Uphold or Gemini. That’s kind of where this topic you’ve responded to had been about. People wanted to know why support for custodial accounts was reduced. Especially with the most recent being said to limit Gemini connections to United States only, which you can see at Verifying with Gemini now only available for US Gemini accounts (Brave Rewards)
You can also see my larger Topic on this where I’ve been providing updates to Users as regularly as I can. That topic is at PSA: Unsupported Region