The phrase "apply to return" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is requesting permission or the process to come back to a place, position, or situation.
Example: "To be considered for re-employment, you must apply to return to the company within six months of your departure."
Alternatives: "request to return" or "submit a return application."
"You apply to return, then the Jordanian Army facilitates handing you over to the Free Syrian Army".
My only solution, the lawyer said, was to go back to the Philippines and accept a 10-year ban before I could apply to return legally.
This means that, instead of being barred from coming back to the UK for at least three years, they may apply to return immediately.
But among the victories for Democrats is a provision to allow immigrants who had been deported on noncriminal grounds to apply to return, if they have spouses or minor children here.
Before people applied, they got everyone who wanted to apply to return an RSVP slip saying they wanted to be involved, and they then orchestrated mass conference calls to try and raise people's level of ambition.
The immigration bill that passed the Senate Judiciary Committee last week would improve the system in many ways, like providing a path to citizenship for millions and allowing some deportees to apply to return to their families in the United States.
The Yemeni Embassy said he had previously studied Arabic in Yemen and applied to return this year to study.
The heroine of A Foreign Woman, Marusya Tatarovich, decides that she has made a mistake in leaving Russia and applies to return.
When applied to return data, this transformation is equivalent to applying the constant-mean-return correction (see Brown and Warner 1985, pp. 4 5).
The thermal integration unit was applied to return hot fuel gas exiting the gasifier to drying and pyrolysis zones of the reactor.
Married with mortgage payments, he applied to return to school at UC, Berkeley at the age of 37. Odean was told that his favored major, psychology, was unavailable but that he'd be admitted if he agreed to take up statistics.
