Thread:Support/What is the normal time to wait for approval to translate?/reply

Usually it takes a few hours, unless there are follow-up questions. If your friend is "Villagescience", then he had to wait about 5.5 hours, and was granted translator rights on 2013-02-07, which is roughly a week ago.

If this is not the person you're calling friend, please provide more information, so that we can look into why things didn't go as expected.