The phrase "a formal request for help" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you need to ask for assistance in a professional or official manner.
Example: "I am submitting a formal request for help regarding the technical issues we are experiencing with the software."
Alternatives: "an official plea for assistance" or "a formal appeal for support".
Some questioned whether the Met had waited too long before sending a formal request for help on 19 September.
"Let me stress, this is not about deploying troops to Libya," said Mr. Rasmussen, who added that the country had made a formal request for help last week.
After refusing for months to countenance the idea of an international rescue, the country's caretaker Prime Minister Jos??tes sent a formal request for help to Brussels on Thursday.
The government said a formal request for help was expected to be issued by the Libyan authorities within days, as the country grapples to cope with the chaos unfolding on its shores.
In Seattle, the police chief, Gil Kerlikowske, said that he had not received a formal request for help but that he had contacted the local F.B.I. office himself and was told the bureau was interested in questioning fewer than two dozen men in Seattle.
Though the report says that Kabul had reached out for international help in September but had yet to send the U.S. State Department a formal request for assistance backed up with sufficient data, a State Department official confirmed to The Huffington Post on Friday that such a request had been received.
Mr. Juncker said he expected the Spanish authorities to put forward a formal request for financial assistance by Monday.
A week later, Jacksonville agents made the formal request for help to FBI headquarters in Washington.
On 9 June, after emergency talks Spain's Economy Minister Luis de Guindos says that the country will shortly make a formal request for up to 100bn euros ($125bn £80bnn) in loans from eurozone funds to try to help shore up its banks.
Mahmoud Abbas submitted a formal request for membership to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon Ki-Moon
"We have not made a formal request for intervention.
