The phrase "a formal status" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an official or recognized position, condition, or classification within a specific context.
Example: "The organization requires all members to maintain a formal status to ensure compliance with its regulations."
Alternatives: "an official status" or "a recognized status".
Following the initial finding, NOAA convened a Biological Review Team to initiate a formal status review of the 82 species.
On Sunday, Iraq's interim leaders said that they could not negotiate a formal "status of forces" agreement with the American military on maintaining troops in Iraq, and that the task must await the next sovereign Iraqi government.
The common European practice of giving pressure groups a formal status, and often a legal right to be consulted, minimises conflict by ensuring that powerful groups put their case to governments before laws are introduced.
The flag was to have been given a formal status in the proposed European Constitution.
If such a definition is to be meaningful, there is a need to develop national and international programs and evaluation mechanisms to enable a formal status of Data Safe Haven to be awarded.
With that circular, Syrian schools operated by non-state actors without any formal status gained formal status.
CNs said that GPs traditionally have a higher formal status on a team than nurses do; however, both GPs and CNs stressed that a team approach necessitates non-hierarchical relationships between teammates.
This document analysis provided an impression of the formal status of cultural diversity in medical education in a multi ethnic country.
A veteran -- his "formal" status irrelevant -- was in trouble in the middle of the Pacific.
The fund was a public-private partnership set up in 2002 with formal status as a foundation under Swiss law.
The formal crew was joined by Orsborne's younger brother James, a grocer, who had no formal status on board and was later classified as a stowaway.
