I'm not confident Intuit will fix this problem. Their customer service is absolutely worthless in my humble opinion. Letting paying customers guess to solve their software errors and needed fixes.
You may be wise to find someone in the USA where you can send a text and then talk to them to get the code they receive in a text message. Once you have that, the phone number is verified. I don't know why this is so important, but it is.
Good luck.
Curtis
