Dev Request: More Applications in Queue?

Whether this is a guild perk or just an update, can you please include more Free Company applications allowed in queue?

Expansions bring in a lot of new members, and for some of the larger guilds or specialty guilds, those 8 applications aren't enough. Our guild had to create an independent waitlist on separate forums which built up to 35+ players holding on to get in.

Also, many times we want to respond to the player who is applying and they're offline. Can the application system generate a "Applications" system Moogle Mail from your end notifying them of a question we're trying to ask them before they come in, or a kind way of rejecting an application and explaining why?