I got lucky with a really helpful person today.
In order to escalate an application it has to meet two pieces of criteria.
1: has to have been on the system at least 8 weeks
2: travel must be within two weeks.
Monday I am officially able to call for escalation as I my 8 week marker was last week and my two week marker will be Monday.
I’ll let you know if I escalate and how that goes.