The phrase "a request to attend" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are formally inviting someone to participate in an event or meeting.
Example: "I am sending you a request to attend the annual conference next month."
Alternatives: "an invitation to join" or "a call to participate".
To me, he wrote that the club adviser "did not file a request to attend".
Irfan was denied a request to attend the jail's job-training courses but was eventually granted a radio.
In Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, meanwhile, hundreds of people from across the UK answered a request to attend the funeral of a World War Two veteran they never knew.
I submitted a request to attend the wedding more than two months in advance.
It arrived in an email 6 weeks in advance -- a request to attend the office holiday party from an ex-boyfriend who was still single.
I expected it to be along the lines of another party invitation, but to my chagrin it was a request to attend the funeral of one of their friends.
The photographer declined a Marine request to attend a city council meeting, and instead accompanied a unit on foot patrol nearby.
Those who self-report OA in their hip, knee, and/or hand, will receive a postal request to attend a clinical examination (CE) performed at Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo.
American officials confirmed on Tuesday that the Sudanese leader, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, had submitted a visa request to attend the General Assembly, which runs through the end of the month.
Robert Goldberg, the embassy's deputy chief of mission, said outside the courtroom in Beijing that the embassy had made a formal request to attend the hearing of the geologist, Xue Feng.
The five men declined a requisition request to attend London's Westminster magistrates court on 11 January, where they would have been charged with conspiracy to defraud, relating to alleged manipulation of Euribor (the euro interbank offered rate).
