You could not have submitted an application through the pilot program after March 5th. You would have needed to get a new endorsement, for the permanent program this time, and your company would have needed to be designated again, this time under the permanent program.So correct me if I am wrong:
whoever has applied before March 5th, falls under pilot programs and 6m processing time. Applications submitted after March 5th, are not pilot and will be processed under 12months timeframe...?
So, essentially it has nothing to do with the dates, the pilot and permanent program can be considered to be completely different programs with different processing times.