The phrase "an early request to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a request that is made ahead of time or in advance of a certain event or deadline.
Example: "I would like to make an early request to schedule our meeting for next week."
Alternatives: "a prior request to" or "an advance request to".
Banks came up empty-handed in response to an earlier request to locate Mr. Milosevic's funds.
"As you know," it said, "an earlier request to visit specific detainees held at Passaic County Jail was denied.
She did this five hours after the state supreme court had rejected an earlier request to halt the recounts, allowing them to go ahead.
Matthews said he agreed to an early request by City of London police to upgrade the postmortem to a "special examination" – a form of autopsy conducted in suspicious deaths.
But the response to an early request for development proposals was inconclusive, and the island's operating corporation decided to open the island to visitors each summer, moving ahead first with building a fan base, then with an open-space competition, and now with the construction of that new landscape, all without a hotel, university, or museum in place.
Gov. Jeb Bush refused today to allow an early request for clemency of a 14-year-old boy sentenced to life in prison for beating a 6-year-old girl to death.
3.34pm BST Before we start, an early request from the man at the toppermost of the MBM poppermost, Gary Naylor.
He sharply criticized the Corps for deflecting his earlier request to discuss its structures as a cause of the longstanding erosion problem.
The UAW had vowed to strike if the bankruptcy court agreed with Delphi's earlier request to throw out its union contracts.
Ms. Harris rejected the recounts from Broward and Palm Beach tonight, as well as an earlier request from Miami-Dade County to include the results of a manual recount of three precincts in the final tally.
