Turns out that despite being on the NA servers even though i am a long way from America itself, nor Europe, when using a game time card, i am automatically granted the veteran rewards. I added a 60 day time card to my account and after completing the process, i was instantly granted rank 2 of the veteran rewards.

Got the Bikini vouchers (yet to find the vendor in the game), hand cursor pet thingy, fantasia character edit potion and the black chocobo chick pet.