I would like to bring attention to my stupid oversight, and let any reading this know that no amount of facepalms will repair the waste of time in writing and reading this post.
Since composing this post, I have had EVE News open and have been dedicating time in searching for any Updates I may have missed (while hoping someone would point it out before I did and save me the time in searching).
In the Update on 2022-11-22.1 :
it states:
“Fixed an issue with joining Factional Warfare so that Corporations and Alliances joining wait 24 hours from applying, and then until the next downtime, to be fully enrolled.”
In fact, a Corp (or Alliance) should be fully enlisted at the end of the second DownTime after enlisting.
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Feel free to barrage me with the insults I may deserve for wasting your time.