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      Waiting and Delay — page 2

      Most of the time spent in a proceeding is spent waiting, and waiting has its own rules. What a published processing time means, when a matter is genuinely outside it, how an inquiry is made, what an expedite request has to show, and what remedies exist for a decision that never arrives are all practical questions with practical answers. This subject also covers what the delay itself does to the evidence.

      Waiting and Delay

      The Evidence an Expedite Request Needs

      Each recognized expedite ground has an evidential shape: financial loss requires figures and dates, medical grounds require clinical evidence, an error by the deciding body requires the record, and every ground requires imminence to be demonstrated rather than asserted. Requests fail overwhelmingly for want of documents rather than for want of merit.

      6 min readAgency practice