You can
suggest.
Google decides.
There is a real route for correcting a panel, and it works more often than people expect. It just does not work the way people expect.
You are not editing a profile. You are telling Google it has read the web wrongly, and the only argument it finds persuasive is the web itself.
The order that actually works
Find where the wrong fact lives
Search the incorrect detail itself. You are looking for the pages that state it, because one of them is usually the origin and the rest copied it.
Fix the origin first
Get the original page corrected. If it is a publication, ask them. If it is a directory or an old employer page, ask them. This is the slow part and it is the part that works.
Update everything you control on the same day
Your site, your profiles, your author boxes. Consistency across the things you own is the cheapest signal available to you.
Claim the panel yourself
Signed into your own account, with your own documents. Never delegate this.
Suggest the change, once
Say plainly what is wrong and what it should be. Submitting the same correction repeatedly does not speed anything up.
Wait, and re-check in a month
No reply will arrive. Re-run the search in a private window and compare.
Claim it first
Suggestions from a verified owner are treated differently from suggestions by strangers. Claiming is free, and it is done by the person the panel describes, signed into their own Google account.
Nobody should be doing this step on your behalf. If a consultant offers to handle verification for you, that means handing over identity documents to somebody who has no business holding them.
The claim option appears in the small menu beside the description line, and it only exists once a panel exists.
Then change the sources, not just the panel
This is the step almost everybody skips. A suggestion that contradicts what the rest of the web says will be rejected, quietly, with no explanation.
So before suggesting the correction, fix the places the wrong fact came from. Old bios, stale directory entries, a conference page from four years ago, a publication that got the title wrong and was copied by three others.
Then make the suggestion. Now you are pointing at agreement rather than arguing against it.
What gets accepted and what does not
Corrections to facts that are checkable elsewhere tend to go through: a job title that has genuinely changed and is now reflected on the employer's site, a misspelled name that is spelled correctly everywhere else, an image that has been replaced across your profiles.
Requests to remove something true, to add something with no source, or to change the descriptor to something more flattering tend to fail. The descriptor in particular is written from consensus and is among the hardest elements to move.
How long it takes
Days to weeks for a simple factual correction with the sources already aligned. Longer, or never, when the sources still disagree.
There is no queue to check and no reply. The change either appears or it does not, which is frustrating and is worth knowing before you start refreshing the page.
Questions
Can I get something true but unflattering removed?
Almost never, and that is by design. Panels reflect what independent sources report. Removal requests for accurate information are refused.
Do I need to claim it before suggesting an edit?
You can suggest without claiming, and it carries less weight. Claiming is free and takes minutes, so do it first.
Will Google tell me why a suggestion was rejected?
No. There is no response and no appeal. That is why aligning the sources beforehand matters so much: it is the only lever you have.
Can an agency claim it for me?
They should not, and you should not let them. It requires your identity documents inside your own Google account. Any offer to do it for you is a red flag.
If you want this handled
Three thousand dollars flat, half at the start and half only when there is something live to show you. Six to twelve months is the honest window, and about a third of the people who ask are told not to proceed.