Why Was My Filing Rejected?
Nobody likes a rejected filing. But it happens.
It’s not the kind of stat you brag about on social media posts or in a year-end company newsletter, but that data still matters. Analyzing rejections from the previous year can help us spot potential usability issues with the application and let us understand the common pain points for our users.
But this data can help others as well. Knowing the most common rejection reasons can help you understand what to look out for and adopt practices to avoid rejections. Here, we will briefly cover the broad categories of data we look at in our full report on rejections (which you can download on this page).
For this analysis, we broke down rejection reasons into four common groups:
By these numbers, procedural issues are the most likely culprit of any single rejection. This makes sense, as the filing procedure itself is complex. Keeping up with the court schedule, deadlines, proof of service, and more can get overwhelming.
But procedural rejections don’t represent the true majority. A mix of clerical, factual, and other errors combined with self-requested rejections make up the remaining 55%. Within that portion of the rejections, we found some common mistakes that can be fixed with relatively simple proofreading before submission.
Our full report includes information on specific rejection reasons like:
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