They were verifying up to 5k per day last I heard.
do you know where you heard this or read it? I thought it was a couple hundred a day?
Just from people on here and reddit; this was about 2 weeks ago. The rate increased dramatically, which makes sense because on April 4th MtGox stated:
Our support and account verification team went from four people in January 2012 to twenty-two people working every day of the week. We are now hiring even more people to solve this problem by finalizing some deals with external companies.
https://mtgox.com/press_release_20130404.html