We would not be able to say, as this is something that will need to be investigated thoroughly by the Siege team. It isn't something we would be able to provide a time-frame for, sorry to say.
Sorry to hear about your issue with activating your game.
Does your friend use a VPN? If they were, you would need to change your country settings on your Ubisoft Account and on the Epic side to match whatever country your friend had set their VPN to.