You may hate this advice but it worked for me: have Gemini walk you through all the requirements for your given situation.

It took 6-8 weeks for all my stuff end to end, including whatever agreement I needed for European sales, but Gemini was very helpful and correct on all the stated steps and gotchas.

Yes, I’m American but I had a slightly convoluted situation with addresses and bank accounts, and going at the process blind would’ve been much less successful.

Send a cold email to the exec whose portfolio this falls into. Probably Eddy Cue or Craig Federighi.

That part of their business, along with the News part, has been like this for years. It’s incredibly frustrating to real people like you and I when they don’t have the (enough) equivalents on the other side. I don’t know why they do it, but it has to be intentional.

Nothing helpful here, but I sympathise.